Wonderful to see the first experimental paper out from the pELAstic Project: “Informing the Exposure Landscape: The Fate of Microplastics in a Large Pelagic In-Lake Mesocosm Experiment”. A photo of this experiment made the front cover of Environmental Science & Technology!

Dr. Orihel was awarded an Ontario Early Researcher Award for “Ecosystem-Scale Experimentation to Inform Policy Actions on Plastic Pollution: Response of Amphibians to a Whole-Lake Microplastic Experiment“. Read more in the Queen’s Gazette.

Congratulations to Jessie Reynolds (MSc’21) for publishing a third paper from her research in our lab! Her paper was published in FACETS and is entitled “Naphthenic acid fraction compounds, produced by the extraction of bitumen from oil sands, alter survival and behaviour of juvenile yellow perch (Perca flavescens)”.