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Since the 2002
Annual Research
Symposium, one of
the major Ecological
Risk Assessment
(ERA) accomplishments
of MITE-RN has been the development of a
comprehensive synthesis of the ERA implications of
each research project. This synthesis includes summaries
of how the new research findings may/should change
the way ecological risk assessments are performed for
metals. See the ERA section on our website: www.mitern.org/research/era/era.shtml for
further details of this initiative which is led by Drs. Peter Chapman,
Peter Campbell, and Beverley
Hale.
In November, the Network re-evaluated its progress
against its original objectives as it prepared its 4th
Year progress report to NSERC. Letters of support for
MITE-RN’s accomplishments were provided by National
Water Research Institute of Environment Canada; the Earth Sciences
Sector of Natural Resources Canada;
the Environmental Program of the Nickel Producers’ Environmental
Research Association; Fisheries and
Oceans Canada; Noranda Inc. – Falconbridge Limited,
and the Environment Department of the Ontario Power
Generation Inc. Stakeholders have concluded that
progress has been laudable, and the decision has been
taken to mount a proposal for a MITE-RN II in the
spring of 2004.
MITE-RN’s February 25-26, 2003 annual research
symposium will be held at the Crowne Plaza in Ottawa.
Attendance is open and details are available on our web
site at: www.MITHE-SN.org/mite_rn/ann_symp/2003/annual_symposium.shtml.
A spring 2003 Metals in the Environment Workshop
will be co-hosted by MITE-RN and the Mining
Association of Canada to re-convene many of the key
stakeholders who participated in the
original Metals in the Environment
workshop that was organized by the
CNTC in 1996. Proceedings from the
1996 workshop were utilized to set
research goals for the MITE-RN and for
several government metals programs.
In closing, I want to congratulate
the MITE-RN’s
Science Director, Peter Campbell, who was recently
elected to Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada and
appointed as a Canada Research Chair.
LEN RITTER, Ph.D.
MITE-RN Coordinator
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