MITE-RN Announcements
Announcements

  • A Short Course titled: "Mecury Sources, Measurements, Cycles, and Effects" is being offered by the Mineralogical Association of Canada on May 14-15, 2005. Click here to view the PDF announcement.

  • An online article entitled, "Sources, Pathways, and Relative Risks of Contaminants in Surface Water and Groundwater: A Perspective Prepared for the Walkerton Inquiry”, an expert report invited by the Walkerton Inquiry. Authoured by Len Ritter, Keith Solomon and Paul Sibley, Dept. of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph; Ken Hall, Patricia Keen and Gevan Mattu, Institute for Resources and Environment, The University of British Columbia; Beth Linton, Biology Dept. University of Waterloo. Recently published in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A: Current Issues, Volume 65,: 1 -142, Number 1, January 11, 2002

  • MITE-RN now has a job postings board. Click here to view the current jobs available.

  • For information on International Conferences on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements (ICOBTE), contact Dr. Kim Bolton at icobte@lrs.uoguelph.ca.

  • The Year Four Network News has been posted. Click here to read.

  • The European Association of Metals has highlighted their participation at the annual symposium (2001). Read about it here (PDF file).

  • To facilitate the integration of MITE-RN resarch into risk assessment for metals in Canada, two post-doctoral intern positions have been filled. Dr. Richard Goulet accepted an internship with Environment Canada's Existing Substances Branch in September 2002. His mandate will be to link MITE-RN research results to current Environment Canada screening level ERA activities. His counterpart, Dr. Collins Kamunde accepted a position with EVS Environment Consultants, Vancouver. Dr. Kamunde (starting Dec.
    2002) will integrate MITE-RN research into the ongoing debate within ERA circles about the relative iimportance of water versus food as uptake vectors for metals in indigenous aquatic organisms. Dr. Kamunde will assist MITE-RN ERA Coordinator, Dr. Peter Chapman, in the larger integration of the results from the Processes and Impacts Domains of MITE-RN to refine the Risk Characterisation component of ERA for metals and metalloids.

    The ERA interns, who will interact with each other, with Drs. Chapman, Campbell (MITE-RN) and Doyle (Environment Canada); and with all Network principal investigators, represent one way in which MITE-RN will impact the practice of ERA by effectively engaging individual organizations that use the ERA approach (e.g., in Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) assessments), and promoting the communication of results to the user sector. The ERA products of MITE-RN will be published independently of the actual science data by publishing an integrated summary of the research results, indicating how this research has modified the risk assessment of metals in the environment, in the June 2003 issue of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (10 papers). (Click here to visit the MITE-RN ERA web pages)

 
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