Natural Science Research
Day
Fish, rabies and wireless
computers
Find out what 14 Trent-based researchers are exploring these days at the
annual Natural Sciences Research Day April 6.
Each will give a 20-minute glimpse of his or her current projects --
everything from wandering atoms and bird breeding to global climate models
and raccoon rabies -- in the Environmental Sciences lecture hall from 9
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. There will be a tour of the new physics wing before
lunch.
The first session starts at 9 a.m. and features:
- 9:05 Igor Svishchev (Chemistry), Computer Simulations of Liquids and
Solids
- 9:25 Jim Karagatzides (Biology) Community-Based Resource Management:
(i) Monitoring Acid Rain and (ii) Effects of Spent Lead Shot in First
Nations Communities
- 9:45 Mike Robinson (Physics/Trent-Queen's) Tracking the Wandering Atom
- 10:05 Rick Rosatte (Ministry of Natural Resources) Tactics to Prevent
Racoon Rabies From Becoming Established in Ontario.
The second session at 10:40 a.m. features:
- 10:40 Don Mackay (Chemistry/Environmental and Resource Studies)
Contamination Choreography on the Environmental Stage: Figuring Out the
Dance
- 11 Dawne Burke (Biology/Watershed Ecosystems Graduate Program) Is
Bigger Better? ... A Case for Birds Breeding in Forest Fragments
- 11:20 Kenzu Abdella (Mathematics) Modelling Boundary-Layer Processes
For Use in Global Climate Models
- 11:40 Brian Hircock (Computer Studies/Applications of Modelling in the
Natural and Social Sciences) File Migration in a Distributed File System
- noon Dave Evans (MNR) Biology and Conservation of Lake Trout
Populations in Ontario.
The third session after lunch features:
- 1:10 Bart Domzy (Computer Studies) Wireless Computer Communication
- 1:30 David Pedersen (Chemistry/Trent-Queen's) Cluster (Not Atom!): The
Smallest Component of an Element that Still Retains the Properties of that
Element
- 1:50 Claire Wilson (Biology/WEGP/INSTRUCT) Factors Affecting the
Yields and Sustainability of Maize Crops Near Texcoco, Central Mexico
- 2:10 Mark Ridgeway (MNR) Long-Term Studies of the Ecology of Small
Mouth Bass
- 2:30 Bing Zhou (Mathematics) How to Divide the Plane Into Triangles
Without Short Edges.
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