Past Events

Anastassia Lagounova will defend her MSc thesis "Quantifying soil structure dynamics in Agroforestry Riparian Buffers using x-ray computed tomography" Advisor: Prof. Richard Heck Advisory Committee: Dr. Paul Voroney, Dr. Naresh Thevathasan Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca).

Blake Skanes will defend his MSc thesis "Oxidative Degradation of Pesticides on Fruit by Advanced Oxidative Process and Hazard Assessment of Pesticide Transformation Products" Advisor: Prof. Ryan Prosser Co-advisor: Dr. Keith Warriner Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca).

Dillon Brian Muldoon will defend his MSc thesis "Enhanced berm habitats increases the abundance of natural enemies of insect pests and pollinators in the Holland Marsh, Ontario" Advisor: Prof. Cynthia Scott-Dupree Co-advisor: Dr. Mary Ruth McDonald Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca).

Brandon Yep will defend his MSc thesis "Improving aquaponics for indoor drug-type Cannabis sativa L. cultivation" Advisor: Prof. Youbin Zheng Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca).    

Nur Athiqah Md Yusof will defend her PhD thesis  "Revision of the Eurybatinae" Advisor: Prof. Cynthia Scott-Dupree  Co-advisor: Prof. Steve Marshall Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca).

We are happy to welcome Dr. John H. Hartig who will talk about "Great Lakes Revival: How Restoring Polluted Waters Leads to Rebirth of Great Lakes Communities". Dr. Hartig is a Visiting Scholar at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor. Everyone is welcome. Abstract:

Our graduate students have to participate in our graduate seminar (ENVS*6900). For that seminar, students have to prepare a presentation to present their research. Everyone is welcome to attend and learn what our graduate students are working on.  1:30pm – Janelle Giberson Using nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation methods as a proxy to compare recycled and synthetic capping materials for metal remediation in freshwater sediments  1:45pm – Nadia Ingriselli

Prof. Carl Mitchell from the Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough will present his talk "Mercury Biogeochemistry in Altered Landscapes". Abstract:

Michael-Ben Israel will defend his PhD thesis titled "Performance evaluation of microbe and plant-mediated processes in phytoremediation of toluene in fractured bedrock using hybrid poplars". Michael-Ben is supervised by Prof. Kari Dunfield.