Welcome to new group members Eric Van Hauwaert, and undergraduate students Moxy Shah, George Cieszynski, Irina Nistorescu, and Gailmyra Fuentes who are joining us this year! Looking forward to the year ahead with the entire team! We made up for a year of missed monthly group socials by celebrating all birthdays and accomplishments in the sunshine in the afternoon (with the breeze giving plenty of ventilation and occasionally relief from the Yellowjackets).
Visit @NitroDanialine at #ACM2020 Today! He has an #IndoorChem probe to passively sample HONO to share! @SVOCora and @ShiraJoudan are presenting too!
Danial Farahani will be presenting his work on a water-soluble BODIPY probe to selectively collect HONO by passive sampling in indoor environments. This project is supported by the Sloan Foundation Chemistry of Indoor Environments program and we collaborated with the Caputo Group at YorkU to synthesize our probe. If you are attending the conference, visit him in the L1 breakout room today! Otherwise, feel free to contact us to learn more.
Welcome to the research team Fahim and Stephen!
The VandenBoer research team has two new members this fall: RenXi (Stephen) Ye and Fahim Sarker. New researchers met the entire team at a socially distanced outdoor event this fall. Welcome to you both! To learn more about our new, or existing, members, please visit their bios: https://www.tcvandenboer.ca/people
VDB Group is now supported by NSERC Discovery Programme!
A successful Discovery Grant sets the stage for our research to get started in Environmental Analytical Chemistry!
Melodie and Leyla Receive Fieldwork and Travel Funds!
Congratulations to Melodie and Leyla on their receipt of funds supporting travel to collaborate with our colleagues at Health Canada and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Alessia Receives NSERC CGS-M!
Congratulations to Alessia Colussi on the receipt of an NSERC CGS-M to support her research on the deposition of ionogenic PFAS into at-risk whale habitat. Well done!
Melodie and Leigh visit NOAA and CIRES scientists!
Over the Reading Week, MSc researcher Melodie Lao and Postdoctoral Visitor Leigh Crilley traveled to Boulder, CO to collaborate with our colleagues from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES). Melodie and Leigh got to work with a wide suite of atmospheric analytical instrumentation and the scientists who designed/operate them. Thanks to our hosts for the opportunity!
Quantitation of amino sugars by HILIC-MS/MS is In Press
Our sweet methodology for the rapid quantitation of soil reactive nitrogen biomarkers - the amino sugars glucosamine, mannosamine, galactosamine, and muramic acid - by HILIC-MS/MS has been accepted at the Journal of Chromatography A (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2019.460843). Get your copy at the link or contact Trevor.
December Group Social!
In December, as we prepared for a well deserved end of semester break, the group got together to share some snacks, stories, and unwind with a few board games. We also celebrated Melodie’s birthday!
Toronto Environmental Chemistry Hockey Adventure
Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and family from Environmental Chemistry groups at York and UofT ventured to the Scotiabank Arena for a Toronto Marlies game. Although the home team lost, the game had 7 goals, and two of our young companions took home souvenirs from their first live hockey game! A few people then went on to enjoy a skate on the rink at Union Station after.