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 Jon Arnot
One of the inaugural recipients of the President’s Medal, Environmental & Life Sciences Ph.D. graduate, Jon Arnot, was pleasantly surprised when he received the news of the academic honour. “Provided the excellent graduate research conducted by my peers at Trent, it is truly an honour to have even been nominated,” he says Originally from Alberta, Jon came to Trent five years ago after earning a B.Sc. from the University of Alberta, and a Master’s in Environmental Toxicology at Simon Fraser University to pursue his doctorate under the supervision of renowned Trent researcher, Dr. Don Mackay. At Trent, Jon has been researching the development and evaluation of methods and models for screening lists of chemicals for their relative risks. “The backbone of these efforts is the Risk Assessment, IDentification and Ranking (RAIDAR) model,” Jon explains. “RAIDAR is an evaluative model that brings together information on chemical partitioning, degradation, environmental fate and transport, food web bioaccumulation, exposure, effect endpoint and emission rate.” A leader in his field, the newly titled Dr. Arnot current holds a prestigious NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto in the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences. In terms of his plans for the future, Jon says, “I hope to continue research in the fields of environmental toxicology and human health with a focus on chemical exposure and risk assessment.” |
St. Albert, Alberta