David McLagan wins the Instructor Teaching Award for 2022/23 in the School of Environmental Studies (SES) at Queen’s University

Published on: 2023-04-24

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 and participation made the course an overwhelming success. Congrats also to Gabby Dee for winning the SES Teaching Assistant Award.

Recent Projects

Wildfire emissions and in-plume chemistry monitoring using alternative sampling methodologies

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...

Assessing internal tree physiological processing and archiving of mercury using stable mercury isotopes.

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...