CarBBAS Brainstorming Workshop (CarBraW)

September 26 and 27, 2012: at the Station de recherche des Laurentides in St-Hippolyte

with our guests:

Pep Gasol, Institute of Marine Sciences (Spain)

Mike Pace, Virginia University (USA)

Alain Tremblay, Hydro-Québec (Canada)

Lars Tranvik, Uppsala University (Sweden)

22^nd Annual GRIL Meeting

March 8 to 10, 2012 
Manoir du lac William in Saint-Ferdinand, Québec

Matthew Bogard won the prize ($100) for best poster by a master's student!

Jean-François Lapierre won the prize ($100) for best oral presentation by a doctoral student!

NSERC undergraduate research scholarships 2012-2013

March 20, 2012 - congratulations to Kamille Bareil-Parenteau who received an NSERC scholarship for $4500 to do an internship with us this summer!

The GRIL student committee has organised a workshop for students from November 4 to 6, 2011 at the SBL. This weekend will be a great opportunity to meet and share with other GRIL students and to gain new knowledge and skills in limnology. The mornings will be dedicated to student presentations on various limnological themes. In the afternoons, some of the themes presented will be applied in the field, in the lab and on the computer :

• How to calibrate, use and recognize defects in a YSI probe (lab)
• Sampling carbon and greenhouse gases (field)
• Sampling, sorting and identification of zooplankton (field and lab)
• Initiation in ArcGis (computers)
• Introduction to programming and numeric ecology using the language R (computers - you can bring your own!)
• Initiation in freshwater ichtyological inventory methods (field)
• Use of stable isotopes in limnology (instruction, mass spectrophotometer operation, and resulting data)

Paul del Giorgio, Audrey Campeau, Dominic Vachon and Alice Parkes participated in the GLEON 13 conference at Lake Sunapee, NH, USA from October 10 to 14, 2011. This conference, organised by the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON), allowed about a hundred researchers from 24 countries to share their work on lakes and reservoirs. The members of GLEON, composed of limnologists, ecologists, engineers as well as IT experts, aim to build a worldwide network of lake observatories.

When and where to publish?

Round table on scientific publishing and career strategies

How to write a good scientific article?

Scientific writing workshop

21^st Annual GRIL Meeting

March 3 to 5, 2011 
University of Montreal's Laurentian Biological Station, Saint-Hippolyte, Québec

Marie-Ève Ferland won the prize ($100) for best oral presentation by a doctoral student!

Audrey Campeau was nominated as the new president of the GRIL student committee

March 7, 2011 - Cyberpresse.ca

Les lacs et rivères émettent de grandes quantités de méthane

"Les lacs, rivières et autres étendues d'eau douce émettent des quantités insoupçonnées de méthane, puissant gaz à effet de serre, selon une récente étude internationale. Cela pourrait avoir pour effet indirect de rendre moins efficaces que prévu les programmes de reforestation mis en place dans le cadre de la lutte contre les changements climatiques.[...] Yves Prairie, biologiste de l'UQAM qui a collaboré aux études sur les émissions de CO2 par les étendues d'eau douce, confirme que ces résultats changent complètement les calculs de la contribution des continents à l'effet de serre."

CarBBAS Workshop

Emerging Issues Workshop : Role of Aquatic Networks in the Boreal Carbon Cycle

February 12-13, 2011
San Juan, Puerto Rico · USA

2011 ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting

Limnology and Oceanography in a Changing World

February 13-18, 2011
San Juan, Puerto Rico · USA

Sponsored by the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography

Awards of Excellence from UQAM's Faculty of Science and the UQAM Foundation

February 9, 2011 - congratulations to our members who received awards!

Marie-Ève Ferland receives a doctorat award of $3000
Dominic Vachon receives a doctorat award of $6000
Nicolas Fortin St-Gelais receives a master's award of $5000