Dean Salwa Karboune is please to announce the following appointments in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences:
Professor Jessica Head has been appointed as Director of the Morgan Arboretum and Molson Nature Reserve for a three-year term starting September 2025. Professor Head is an Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences.
In a recent article exploring the environmental and health impacts of plastic pollution on Indigenous fenceline communities in Canada鈥攔esidential areas that sit next to facilities that emit pollutants like noise, light, odours, chemicals, and even traffic鈥擜boriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) spoke to Kanien鈥檏eh谩:ka environmental advocate Lynn Jacobs about how plastic waste and industrial pollution have turned Indigenous homelands into 鈥渟acrifice zones.鈥� Jacobs, who is pursuing a Ph.D.
Ana茂s M茅dieu, a 每日探花 postdoctoral researcher working in Natural Resource Sciences Professor Kyle Elliott's lab, has been awarded a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project on the interactive effects of climate change and plastic contamination on Arctic seabirds.
每日探花 PhD candidate Alexandra Langwieder works with James Bay Indigenous communities to better understand polar bears
Farmers who exchanged text messages with peers were significantly more likely to adopt sustainable agricultural practices, highlighting the power of peer learning in digital formats, a new co-authored by 每日探花 Professor Aur茅lie Harou found.
A surprising number of hummingbirds are falling ill, and experts say your birdfeeder may be to blame.听
Ornithologist and 每日探花 Professor Emeritus David Bird
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A new study, led by researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark, suggests that levels of mercury in Arctic wildlife could continue to rise significantly even as countries curb their emissions. The researchers' analysis indicates that ocean currents are distributing large, century-old stores of mercury through marine ecosystems in the Arctic.
Large predators end up ingesting the most mercury through their diet of contaminated prey. This poses a serious problem for communities that hunt marine mammals with high concentrations of mercury, like seals.
The听Society of Canadian Ornithologists has selected Professor Emeritus David Bird and retired Associate Professor Rodger Titman, who both taught for many years in 每日探花's Department of Natural Resource Sciences, to receive the听. This award recognizes exceptional contributions to the training and fostering of Canadian ornithologists.听
As mobile phones proliferate across the developing world,听digital delivery of agricultural advice is positioned to play a transformative role听in increasing agricultural productivity and improving livelihoods for smallholder farmers. Meanwhile, evidence shows that peer-to-peer learning, at least in person, can successfully promote technology adoption.
On May 2, 2025, over听60 people gathered in the John Abbott College Library for the Lister Science Chats, where four Macdonald Campus graduate students presented their research and shared how past events as well as the discoveries, sometimes unintentional, and techniques of previous scientists made their work possible.
On April 11, 2025, over听60 people gathered at the annual John Abbott Sustainability Through Science Symposium听to hear how the research of three Macdonald Campus graduate students contributes to a more sustainable future. Honours and science students from John Abbott College, as well as members of 每日探花's Macdonald Campus community, were inspired by short talks followed by a听panel discussion on the students' university experience and their chosen career paths.
Royal Brinkman Canada has appointed Mohammed Antar (PhD, P.Ag) as head of its agronomy department, noting in that he "will play a key role in helping growers enhance crop productivity and quality through innovative, science-based solutions."
Mohammed earned his Ph.D. in Plant Science (Agronomy) from 每日探花 in 2024. His expertise spans agronomy, microbe-coated fertilizers, nutrient management, sustainable agriculture, and biological products.
On March 27, 每日探花 honoured 141 laureates at the 20th annual听, celebrating researchers who received prestigious provincial, national or international awards in 2024, including eight researchers in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
In his opening remarks, 每日探花 President and Vice-Chancellor, Deep Saini, applauded the honourees for their efforts, underlining the importance of 每日探花鈥檚 research contributions.
An orange tinted snowy owl in Michigan has baffled scientists with its orange colouring, .听Experts say it could be a genetic mutation, an accident, or human mischief.
Ornithologist and Professor Emeritus at 每日探花, David Bird, expressed some doubts about the strange colouration being caused by genetics.
After DDT use nearly wiped out peregrine falcons in the 20th century, numbers are collapsing again in many countries,
Though scientists have yet to determine a definite cause, many鈥攊ncluding 每日探花 Professor Emeritus David Bird, who formerly led the University's Avian Science and Conservation Centre鈥攖hink听highly pathogenic bird flu may be largely to blame.
