Franklin Garcia Sanchez (Hispanic Studies) gave a talk, El realismo magico en dos novelas espanolas contemporaneas, at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi on Dec. 9.

Jim Buttle (Geography) and Doug McDonald (Watershed Ecosystems Graduate Program) presented a paper, the Role of Macropores in Stormflow Generation on Forested Slopes: A Joint Tracer-hydrometric Experiment, to the American Geophysical Union, in San Francisco in December.

Mark Neufeld (Political Studies) delivered a paper, Democratization in/of Foreign Policy: Critical Reflections on the Canadian Case, and Theresa Healy (Political Studies) presented a paper, Globalization in North America: Restructuring the Sites of Democratic Contestation, to a conference of the International Studies and Mexican International Studies associations, in Mexico in December.

In December, Fred Helleiner (Geography) presented a paper, Snowmobile Trails: Access to the Back Country in Cold Climates, co-written with John Marsh (Geography), and chaired a session on tourism development, at the International Geographical Union's Study Group on the Geography of Sustainable Tourism, of which he is president, in New Zealand. He also gave an invited lecture, Was Sir Edmund Hillary an Ecotourist? The Essence of Ecotourism, and chaired a session on world experiences in ecotourism at the World Ecotour '97 conference in Rio de Janeiro.

Ray March (Chemistry) was presented with the 1997 Award of the Canadian Society for Mass Spectrometry for a Distinguished Contribution to Mass Spectrometry at the 10th Tandem Mass Spectrometry Workshop in Lake Louise, Alta. in December. While there, he gave a workshop, A Comparison of Three Mass Spectrometric Methods for the Determination of Dioxins. He organized the 14th Southern Ontario Gas-Phase Ion Chemistry Conference at Trent Oct. 24-25. During 1997, he gave invited lectures, workshops and presentations about quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometry to conferences, university and corporate audiences in Finland, Brazil, Montreal and Toronto. Last January in Florida, he gave two papers: Simulated Resonance Excitation in a Stretched Ion Trap at Working Points Both on and away from the Qz Axis; and The Tandem Mass Spectrometric Determination of Polychlorodibenzo- p-dioxins and Polychlorodibenzofurans Using Multifrequency Irradiation, at the ninth Sanibel Conference on Mass Spectrometry: Quadrupole Ion Traps, written with three others.

Don Mackay, senior chair in environmental modelling at Trent, presented a paper on interpreting, correlating and predicting the multimedia concentrations of PCDD/Fs in the United Kingdom, co-written with three others, at the Dioxin '97 Conference in Indianapolis, Ind. He also gave a paper on the role of mass balance modelling in regulation and monitoring at the Eco-Informa meeting in Munich last October.

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