The wrap-up of the atmospheric deposition project sample processing (and much of the analysis) could not have been done without the help of all of these fantastic students! Memorial’s Undergraduate Career Experience Program (MUCEP) got Adam Selig, Christine Conlan, and Julian Johnson into the lab to process samples, collect data, and familiarize themselves with the day-to-day operations of this work environment. They’re tireless enthusiasm and hard work enabled a massive suite of measurements that would have been impossible with fewer hands. Thank you all! Special thanks also to Bryan and Courtney for their hard work!
Wrap-Up of NL-BELT Fieldwork for Atmospheric Reactive-N Budget Project!
Bryan and Trevor collected the last samples of the 4-year study capturing atmospheric reactive nitrogen inputs to the NL-BELT field sites in October 2016! All the instrumentation from Cartwright to Codroy were retrieved and the samples added to the atmospheric archive. Thousands of samples have been collected over this period and have spawned many fantastic collaborative projects! Special thanks to our funders and collaborators from the NL-BELT at the Canadian Forestry Service, Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Forestry Science and Innovation, Northern Scientific Training Program, and graduate and undergraduate students at Memorial University who made this project possible. We couldn’t have done it without your hard work and enthusiasm!
Courtney's Honours and an Award!
Courtney is continuing on with us throughout the year to pursue the fluxes of phosphorous (P) across the NL-BELT as part of her honours thesis project! She'll be learning all the ins and outs of some instrumentation to determine the quantities and speciation of P entering these remote ecosystems.
Courtney has also been awarded the General Rick Hillier Scholarship in Science and Leadership for the 2016-2017 academic year! Congratulations Courtney!!
Welcome to Courtney!
Courtney Laprise joins us with an NSERC-USRA. She will be helping us to quantify nutrient fluxes across the NL-BELT this summer. Welcome Courtney!
University of Toronto Alumni at CCCE 2016
Many UofT Environmental Chemistry faculty and alumni were in attendance at the CCCE in Halifax! What a reunion!!
Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exposition - Halifax 2016!!!
Bryan, Kathryn, and Aleya were reunited at the 99th CCCE in Halifax, NS! Bryan gave an oral presentation on work by Aleya and himself on the use of IC in the quantitation of alkyl amines, while Kathryn presented her honour's work in the poster session, taking home the Environmental Division Undergraduate Grand Prize. Collaborator, John MacInnis, also received the Graduate Grand Prize for his poster presentation on samples collected from the NL-BELT. Congratulations!!
Congratulations on NSERC-PGS-D!
NL-BELT collaborator, and NSTP award holder for 2014 and 2015, John MacInnis from the CJY group has been awarded a prestigious NSERC-PGS-D scholarship for the remainder of his graduate studies with Dr. Young. John has been an ongoing contributor to the construction, deployment, and collection of samples from automated and passive precipitation samplers across the NL-BELT, with samples shared for his work on the long-range atmospheric transport of perfluorinated acids. Congratulations!
Kathryn BSc(Hons)!!
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.