School of Environmental Studies
Dept. of Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering
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 global pollutant, wildfire emissions and Indigenous Fire Stewardship, and teaching methods. Check it out here.
In 2018, Dr. McLagan worked on the Oil Sands Monitoring Campaign with Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) that utilised a research aircraft decked out with an array of sophisticated atmospheric contaminant monitoring instruments. During this campaign, there...
Our knowledge of the critical ecosystem services trees and forests play as a sink for anthropogenically perturbed contaminants such as mercury has developed rapidly over the past two decades. For mercury we have learned that the foliar assimilation of elemental...