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FEWA Lab PI, David McLagan, wins Governor General’s Innovation Award
David McLagan, along with PhD Supervisors, Carl Mitchell and Frank Wania (from University of Toronto Scarborough) were one of six winners of the Governor General's Innovation Award for the development and commercialization of MerPAS. The award was presented at a...
David McLagan featured on Emerging Environments podcast
David was interviewed by Prof. Karen Smith and Prof. Stu Livingston from the Dept. of Physical and Environmental Sciences at the University of Toronto on their really cool podcast called Emerging Environments. They chatted about David's path in research, mercury as a...
David McLagan wins the Instructor Teaching Award for 2022/23 in the School of Environmental Studies (SES) at Queen’s University
We are excited to announce that David McLagan has won the Instructor Teaching Award for 2022/23 in the School of Environmental Studies (SES) at Queen’s University. A bit thanks to all the students in ENSC480-002 (Wildfire Science & Management) who’s amazing buy-in...
New study on spatial observations of gaseous elemental mercury concentration and stable isotopes across Ontario using passive samplers
Cool new study that I was a part of led by my friends and collaborators Natalie Szponar and Briget Bergquist. I welcome you to check it out! https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037361 https://twitter.com/David_S_McLagan/status/1617894390806228993
New publication in Frontiers of Environmental Chemistry looking at mercury transport in streams with stable isotopes!
Great new study investigating mercury cycling and transport in stream water and sediments downstream from a mercury polluted site in the Black Forest (Schwarzwald) in Germany using mercury stable isotope and mercury speciation techniques. Super effort from lead author...
The FEWA Lab is excited to announce its first cohort of students
Grant Chenier (Master's), Madison Otsuki (undergrad), and Chloe Earnshaw-Osler (undergrad) joined the FEWA lab in September 2022. In addition, Excellent Eboigbe (Master's) will join the team in January 2023. I'm super chuffed to have these brilliant, enthusiastic...
Article examining the physiological processing and archiving of mercury in trees accepted in Biogeosciences
The FEWA Lab is pleased to announce the publication of research in Copernicus/EGU Journal Biogeosciences. This research is titled: "Internal tree cycling and atmospheric archiving of mercury: examination with concentration and stable isotope analyses"....
We’re Excited to Reveal Our New Logo and Website
After several months of planning, designing, and building, we are launching our new logo and website! It was important for us to capture the essence of FEWA Lab in our branding. The logo's modern line design depicts the 4 elements (Fire, Earth, Water, Air). The...