Past Events

The School of Environmental Sciences Graduate Student council presents 2021 Virtual Graduate Student Conference on May 27, 2021 The program can be found here: https://ses.uoguelph.ca/ses-2021-virtual-graduate-student-conference

Jacob Lachapelle will defend his MSc thesis "A microscale 3‐D model of urban outdoor thermal exposure (TUF‐Pedestrian): impacts of street tree configuration"  Advisor: Dr. Scott Krayenhoff Advisory Committee: Dr. Jon Warland, Dr. Ariane Middel Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca)  

Emily Agar will defend the MSc thesis "Investigating the relative impacts of environmental stressors on wild bee community composition through an analysis of historical records"  Advisor: Dr. Nigel Raine Advisory Committee: Dr. D. van Engelsdorp Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca)  

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)