Dr. VandenBoer traveled to Syracuse with colleague Dr. Cora Young to participate in the setup and testing of a new sampling system with collaborator Dr. Tara Kahan. Looking forward to the next visit and the great science that is about to ensue!
The VandenBoer Group has relocated to York University
Trevor has moved to the Department of Chemistry at York University in Toronto, Ontario to take up a new position as a Visiting Professor and Adjunct Faculty member. He began his new position on September 1, 2017 along with new MSc student Adam Selig. The adventure started with a reunion of past group members and collaborators currently studying and working in the Toronto Area, followed by the Integrating Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics from Earth to Space (IACPES) seminar series.
Congratulations Aleya! 2017 Lorne Bonnell Scholarship Recipient
Congratulations to Aleya Quilty on her receipt of the 2017 Lorne Bonnell Scholarship towards the pursuit of her MSc!! Aleya also managed to meet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this year!
Visiting ETH Zürich
Following the Healthy Buildings conference in Poland, Dr. VandenBoer traveled through Germany to Switzerland to visit colleagues Dr. Zamin Kanji (Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science) and Dr. Nadine Borduas (Department of Environmental Systems Science) at ETH Zürich. They provided walkthrough tours of their state-of-the-art labs studying interactions between aerosols and cloud nuclei, as well as of the city and its many forms of chocolate and cheese!
Healthy Buildings 2017 - Lublin, Poland
Dr. VandenBoer was invited to present his work on measuring ultra-trace levels of atmospheric amines at the Healthy Buildings conference in Lublin, Poland in a session sponsored by the Sloan Foundation. Many colleagues from the outdoor atmospheric chemistry community attended in the exciting sessions on the chemical composition and potential chemistry of indoor air, the control and movement of air in the built environment, and the indoor microbiome. Na zdrowie!
Courtney Laprise receives NSERC-USRA for the summer of 2017!
Congratulations to Courtney Laprise on her receipt of another NSERC-USRA to complete the preparation of her honours work for publication and start new adventures in environmental/analytical chemistry this summer!
Courtney’s honours presentations are given and thesis submitted!
Courtney Laprise is completing a double major and so gave two presentations for her honours project, one in Earth Sciences and another in Chemistry. Courtney summarized a huge amount of work spanning these disciplines in the short time available and subsequently submitted her thesis. Great work Courtney!
Courtney Laprise is one of this year’s Canadian Society for Chemistry Travel Award Recipients!
Congratulations to Courtney Laprise who was awarded the Analytical Chemistry Division’s undergraduate travel award to attend the centennial meeting of the Canadian Society for Chemistry in Toronto, ON! Courtney will be providing a poster presentation of her work from the NL-BELT on the quantitation and speciation of atmospheric phosphorous inputs. This award honours ‘outstanding senior undergraduate students in analytical chemistry, to encourage them into postgraduate studies and to expose them to a stimulating scientific environment at the annual Canadian Chemical Conference’.
Congratulations to Bryan on completing his MSc thesis seminar!
Bryan completed his 40 minute CHEM6002 seminar this week and was hard pressed to make all of his hard work fit in to the allotted time. He’s now moved on to writing up his remaining work for submission this spring. Another mandatory milestone surpassed and celebrated with some axe throwing with the CJY Group! Congrats Bryan!
Congratulations to Bryan on his first MSc publication in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques!
In a study on the separation of atmospherically relevant cations, Bryan Place has pioneered a technique that overcomes limitations of all prior ion chromatography methods, and many others, in the quantitation of the eleven most abundant atmospheric alkyl amines. Even in the nasty matrices of biomass burning aerosol extracts. Congratulations Bryan!