Past Events

Ashley Garland will defend her MSc thesis "Characterizing solidified industrial waste for greenhouse crop production"  Advisor: Dr. Asim Biswas Advisory Committee: Dr. Youbin Zheng Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca)  

  Komathy Prapagar will defend her PhD thesis "Quantifying the variability and dynamics of soil hydromorphism in the riparian buffer systems"  Advisor: Dr. Richard Heck Advisory Committee: Dr. Naresh Thevathasan & Dr. Asim Biswas Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca) Abstract:

Jessica Awrey will defend her PhD thesis "Long‐term cover crop impacts on processing tomato production: fruit yield and quality, disease, and plant N content"  Advisor: Dr. Laura Van Eerd Advisory Committee: Dr. Cheryl Trueman & Dr. Kimberley Schneider Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca) Abstract:

Cassandra Russell will defend her MSc thesis "Improved detection and monitoring of pepper weevil (Anthonomus eugenii) in Ontario peppers" Advisor: Dr. Rebecca Hallett Advisory Committee: Dr. Roselyne Labbé & Dr. Cynthia Scott-Dupree Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca).

Rebecca Johnson will defend her MSc thesis "Nitrous Oxide Flux Quantification from Agricultural Soils using a Novel Automatic Hybrid Chamber System" Advisor: Dr. Claudia Wagner-Riddle Advisory Committee: Dr. A Berg & Dr. G. Ali Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca).

Victoria Rodriguez Morrison will defend her MSc thesis "Lighting strategies for the flowering stage of indoor cannabis production" Advisor: Dr. Youbin Zheng Advisory Committee: Dr.  Gale Bozzo & Dr. Nigel Gale Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca).

René Sahba Shahmohamadloo will defend his PhD thesis "The toxicology of microcystins in freshwater organisms of the Great Lakes"  Advisor: Dr. Paul Sibley Advisory Committee: Dr. Satyendra Bhavsar, Dr. Ryan Prosser, Dr. Evan Fraser Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca)

Are you an undergraduate student thinking about grad school in Environmental Sciences? The School of Environmental Sciences is inviting you to an informal meet & greet with our faculty for Q&A sessions.  Come and see if Graduate School is for you.  It’s your turn to ask faculty about their research. 

  D. Susan Willis Chan will defend her PhD thesis  "Where Wild Meets Cultivated: the Implications of the Close Association Between the Hoary Squash Bee (Eucera (Peponapis) pruinosa Say, 1837) and Cucurbita Crops in Ontario, Canada " Advisors: Dr. Nigel Raine Advisory Committee: Dr. Rebecca Hallett, Dr. Brian Husband, Dr. Peter Kevan Everyone is welcome.

  Jeffrey Avedesian will defend his MSc thesis  "Bacteroides genetic markers for microbial source tracking fecal pollution in Ontario waters" Advisors: Dr. Marc Habash Advisory Committee: Dr. Susan Weir, Dr. Hung Lee Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca).