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Featured Winners

Environmental & Life Sciences

​• Tanner Liang -  McLeans Graduate Scholarship 2016 - $7,000
                          - Northern Scientific Training Program 2016 - $2,674
                          - Northern Scientific Training Program 2017 - $3,718
                          - EnLS Woods Scholarship 2017 - $1,500
                          - The Symons Trust Fund for Canadian Studies 2017 - $3,000

"Hydrochemistry and Critical loads of acidity of lakes and ponds in the Canadian Arctic: Potential impacts from ship-sources emissions"

​• Vaughn Mangal - W. Garfield Weston Award for Northern Research 2017 - $50,000
                              - The Symons Trust Fund for Canadian Studies 2017 - $3,000
                              - NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship - $42,000
                              - French American Charitable Trust Scholarship Trent University - $2,000

"The Impact of Seasonal Variations on dissolved organic matter quality and Mercury Bioavailability along the Rapidly Changing Churchill River" 

​• Scott Fleming - W. Garfield Weston Award for Northern Research 2016 - $50,000
                           - French American Charitable Trust Graduate Scholarship Trent University 2015 - $2,000
                           - Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2017 - $15,000
                           - Best Student Poster Award -Arctic Goose Joint Venture 2015 - $100
                           - NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship - $63,000

"Evaluating the large-scale effects of overabundant geese on other tundra-nesting birds"  

​• Chad Cuss - President's Medal 2016
                      - NSERC Visiting Fellowships in Government Laboratories Program (candidate) 2015
                      - NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canadian Graduate Scholarship 2012-2015 - $105,000
                      - Dean’s Excellence Awards 2011-2015 
                      - Curtin Scholarships 2011-2012
                      - Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2011-2012 - $15,000
                      - NSERC Canadian Graduate Scholarship 2010-2011
                      - Graduate Studies Entrance Award 2010
                      - NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards 2009-2010
                      - Research Grant, Northern Scientific Training Program 2008
                      - Undergraduate Academic Scholarship, Trent University 2007

"Modeling and distinguishing the composition, leaching, degradation, and metal-binding behaviours of dissolved organic matter leached from leaf litters"

​• Kristi Goulet - David & Joyce Woods Graduate Scholarship 2016-2017 - $1,500 
                         - NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Scholarship 2015-2016 - $17,500 
                         - David & Joyce Woods Graduate Scholarship 2015-2016 - $1,500 
                         - Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2014-2015 - $15,000 

"Investigating the effects of natural antisense transcripts on ustilago maydis pathogenesis"

​• Melanie Boudreau - Edwin Curtin & Irwin Elizabeth Curtin Graduate Scholarship 2015, 2017
                                  - Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2017
                                  - Northern Studies Training Program Award 2015, 2016
                                  - NSERC Alexander Graham Bell CGS-D Postgraduate Scholarship 2014

"Non-consumptive effects of predation in snowshoe hare populations"

​• Chantelle Penney - Toronto Sportsmen's Show / OFAH Zone H Fisheries Research Grant 2017 - $4,000                      

"The epigenetic effects of elevated temperature on the upper thermal tolerance of Salvelinus namaycush and Salvelinus fontinalis" 

​• Erin Hayward - 3M National Student Fellow 2017 - $3,000

"Ozonation pre-treatment having adverse impacts on Freshwater mussel species living downstream of wastewater treatment facilities" 

​• Samantha Morin - W. Garfield Weston Award for Northern Research 2017 - $20,000

"Fine-scale habitat selection by Canada lynx and bobcats in northern Ontario"

​​• Sarah D'Amario - Curtin Scholarship 2016
                              - Woods Scholarship 2016
                              - NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award 2013-2015 - $9,000 
                              - NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Scholarship 2017 - $17,500  

​• Amerlia MacDonald - Alexander Graham Bell Canadan Graduate Scholarship 2017 - $17,500

“Estimating survival for the endangered rufa Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa) staging in southwestern James Bay, Ontario, Canada”

​• Tong Zhu - President's Award CSSS Poster Presentation 2017

​• Monica Fromberger - Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2017 - $15,000

​• Sara Pieper - NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship 2013-2015 $63,000 
                      - French American Charitable Trust Graduate Scholarship Trent University 2014 - $2,000
                      - Curtin Scholarship 2014

"Hybridization as a driver for invasion in hybrid cattail (Typha x glauca)"

 

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