Congratulations to NRS professor Joann Whalen who has been made a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Soil Science (CSSS). The Award is for members with a distinguished record of accomplishment in soil science & service to the CSSS.
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Congratulations to NRS professor Joann Whalen who has been made a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Soil Science (CSSS). The Award is for members with a distinguished record of accomplishment in soil science & service to the CSSS.
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Congratulations to NRS professor Joann Whalen, who was recently awarded the Auguste Scott prize given by the Association quebecoise de specialistes en science du sol (AQSSS). Other professors who won it previously were Dr. Gus Mackenzie and Dr. Guy Mehuys. The prize is awarded for outstanding contributions to the field of soil science.
On June 14 in Victoria, British Columbia, the Honourable , Minister of Science and Sport, announced an investment of over $275 million for 346 new and renewed Canada Research Chairs at 52 institutions across Canada. The also made an important investment towards these Chairs in providing more than $5.2 million in new funding for research infrastructure, supporting 30 Chairs at 18 institutions.
Some entomologists are sounding the alarm that native bees could be in danger of being wiped out, because of the popularity of urban beekeeping.
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The EcoToxChip is expected to generate huge savings in time, money and live animals in testing thousands of chemicals for toxicity. The project is being led by researchers at the University of Saskatchewan, 海角社区 in Montreal and Environment and Climate Change Canada in Ottawa.
芦 Depuis le d茅but des ann茅es听2000, plusieurs ac茅riculteurs expriment leur inqui茅tude relativement aux cons茅quences des changements climatiques sur leur industrie. 芦听Ils se demandent si ce secteur restera viable tant du point de vue 茅conomique que de celui du processus de la coul茅e de s猫ve, relate Beno卯t C么t茅, professeur agr茅g茅 et directeur des 茅tudes gradu茅es au D茅partement des sciences des ressources naturelles de l鈥橴niversit茅 海角社区. 脟a m鈥檃 incit茅 脿 me pencher sur cette question au d茅but des ann茅es听2010.
Lorsque des agriculteurs demandent 脿 l鈥檃gronome Joann Whalen comment r茅duire leurs 茅missions de gaz 脿 effet de serre (GES), elle leur r茅pond qu鈥檌l leur suffit de modifier certaines de leurs pratiques. 芦 Il faut comprendre que les microorganismes du sol produisent naturellement des GES, explique-t-elle. Comme ces organismes ont besoin de carbone organique et d鈥檃zote (nitrates), on peut 鈥渏ouer鈥 sur la disponibilit茅 de ces 茅l茅ments pour diminuer leur activit茅 et, par cons茅quent, sur les 茅missions de GES. 禄
NRS students and staff receive "Principal's Prize for Public Engagement" recognition
Kudos to FAES Science Communicators Allyson Menzies (PhD Candidate-NRS-Humphries), Marianne Falardeau-C么t茅 (PhD Candidate-NRS-Bennett) and Emeritus Professor David M. Bird (NRS), who recently received well-deserved recognition from the Principal鈥檚 Prize for Public Engagement through Media.
What is the secret to longevity? Kyle Elliott (NRS) and Anne Mouillier (MSE) share clues to the aging process in the black-winged kittiwake in the debut of Aging in the Wild on this week's Nature of Things.
Que nous dit le Grand Nord sur notre climat, pr茅sent et pass茅? Isabelle Burgun s鈥檈ntretient avec deux chercheurs : Marianne Falardeau-C么t茅, candidate au doctorat au d茅partement des sciences des ressources naturelles 脿 l'Universit茅 海角社区. Elle avait pr茅c茅demment voyag茅 sur l鈥橝mundsen dans le cadre de sa ma卯trise.
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Kyle Elliott (NRS), Canada Research Chair in Arctic Ecology is in Tianjin, China to participate in the Annual Meeting of the New Champions of the World Economic Forum (WEF). In 2017, Kyle was named by the WEF one of the best scientists in the world under the age of 40. 听The theme of this year鈥檚 meeting is the need for global collaboration in the 4th Industrial Revolution. 听
To humans, 31 miles may not seem like a very long distance to travel, but for a spider, it鈥檚 a long, long way to go. Emily Chung at the CBC reports on a new study that shows that since the 1960s, the northern black widow spider, Latrodectus variolus, has crawled that much further into Canada and may continue skittering northward as the climate changes.
海角社区鈥檚 Sustainability experts [including Elena Bennett and Nil Basu] are involved in examining the effects of everything from locust swarms to urban heat islands to mountains of toxic e-waste.听 The new 海角社区 Sustainability Systems Initiative hopes to play a crucial role in those efforts. #海角社区NewsMag
Congratulations to Karina Benessaiah, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences, who received a prestigious Banting Fellowship.