Congratulations Kathryn on the successful completion of your BSc(Hons)! Thanks for all your hard work and dedication to amino sugars for the past year. All the best in your MSc with the CJY group!
Bryan Place Awarded NSTP Funding!
Bryan was awarded funds for travel and to collect samples from the most northerly field site of the NL-BELT in Cartwright, Labrador in 2016. His project was titled 'Measuring atmospheric nitric and nitrous acid in the Newfoundland and Labrador boreal forest through passive gas sampling'. Congratulations Bryan!
LEGOLAS is in Analyst!
Publication of a custom-instrument, built in collaboration with Dr. Cora Young, has been published in Analyst's 2016 special issue for Emerging Investigators. The design is a calibration source called Low Emission of Gases Oven for Long-lived Atmospheric Species or LEGOLAS (see mascot) and was demonstrated in this work to produce atmospherically relevant concentrations of perfluorinated carboxylic acids in the gas phase via acid displacement with HCl and HBr. The manuscript is available through open access at RSC.
Bryan joins us from UofT!
Bryan Place finished his BSc (Hons) in Chemistry at the University of Toronto with Drs. Jennifer Murphy and Jon Abbatt in April 2015 and joined us at Memorial in May! Bryan will be undertaking a project to expand the observations of gaseous reactive nitrogen entering the NL-BELT field sites. Welcome Bryan!
Kathryn begins (and extends) her adventures with amino sugars!
Kathryn Dawe joined us from the Department of Chemistry at Memorial for a summer research project in May 2015 on method development for the quantitative analysis of amino sugars in soils and other matrices. During the summer, Kathryn developed digestion and recovery methods and presented her results at the second NL-BELT workshop in Corner Brook, NL in July. Kathryn has continued this work with us in collaboration with Drs. Cora Young (Chemistry) and Susan Ziegler (Earth Science) for her Honours' thesis project for the academic year!
