by David McLagan | Jun 6, 2023
The FEWA Lab interest in wildfires continues to grow. 2023 will see primarily student led wildfire modelling projects that will examine wildfire smoke emissions and wildfire danger indices to help improve our understanding of fire using numerical tools. One of the...
by dustin@thekellercreative.com | Aug 11, 2022
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...
by dustin@thekellercreative.com | Aug 11, 2022
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...
by dustin@thekellercreative.com | Aug 11, 2022
Emissions of mercury from ASGM activities are now the largest single emitter of mercury to the atmosphere globally. However, there are major shortcomings in our knowledge of the biogeochemical cycling and impacts of this mercury relating largely to the informal,...