More summer students!
ENVS Honours students Lucy Boyne and Emi Nakamoto are working with Dr. Nelson O’Driscoll looking at Hg levels in invertebrates are various sites in the Maritimes. They have been busy doing invertebrate collections in lakes and streams throughout Kejimkujik National Park.
BSc ENVS Honours students Lucy Boyne and Emi Nakamoto taking samples of invertebrates in a lake.
Professor Dr Ian Spooner and BSc (Hons) student Eve Pole gave Ben Gooley a helping hand with his master's project. They hit the lake to get sediment cores from the profundal zone and grab samples of the littoral zone using an Ekman dredge. Dr Spooner used a sonar device to carefully determine where to sample. Ben's research aims to answer the question: how has the legacy of historic goldmining in Southern Nova Scotia impacted mercury and arsenic contamination in benthic invertebrates? These sediments may have the answer to that question.
Students Eve Poole and Ben Gooley on a sampling mission...
Getting ready to release the sampler...