Congratulations!
Congratulations to Ms. Carol G. Coffey who has been awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for the coming year. Ms. Coffey's thesis Impact of Careful Logging on Woodland Caribou Forage in Northeastern Ontario Lowland Black Spruce Sites is being supervised by Drs. Frank F. Mallory and Jim Rettie.
Congratulations to Dr. Frank F. Mallory on his appointment to the Ontario Elk Restoration Advisory Committee. This committee will review applications for elk re-introduction from various MNR Districts across Ontario.
Presentations and Activities Outside the Department
Prof. Keith Winterhalder was guest speaker at the Opening Ceremony for the Timmins Regional Science Fair on the 8th April 1999.
The 38th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists, held May 6-8 at the University of Ottawa, was attended by Dr. F. Mallory and Mr. D. Wiwchar (who made the presentation "Morphology of wolves, Canis lupus, from current and historical ranges of woodland caribou, Rangifer tarandus, in Ontario"), and Dr. P. Couture, Mr. S. Eastwood, and Mr. J. Rajotte (who presented "Are trace metals impacting our wild yellow perch (Perca flavescens) populations?" - S.E. & P.C. and "Effects of metals on swim performance and metabolism in yellow perch (Perca flavescens) from four lakes near Sudbury, Ontario" - J.R. & P.C.). After the technical sessions, part of the AGM was devoted to the plans for the 40th Annual Meeting to be held at Laurentian University in 2001.
Alumni News
Ms. Janice Noronha, B.A.(Hons.), 1995 ENES graduate defended her M.E.S. at Dalhousie University, Halifax. Her thesis was entitled "The role of scavengers and decomposers in an industrial park system: A case study of Burnside Industrial Park."
Publications
Alarie, Y., and J.A. Delgado. 1999. Study of the larvae of Antiporus strigosulus (Brown) (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) with implications for the phylogeny of the Hydroporini. Aquatic Insects 21(2): 99-113.
Carbone, J., W. Keller and R.W. Griffiths. 1998. Effects of changes in acidity on aquatic insects in rocky littoral habitats of lakes near Sudbury, Ontario. Restoration Ecology 6: 376-389.
Dixit, A.S., S.S. Dixit, J.P. Smol and W. Keller. 1998. Paleolimnological study of metal and nutrient changes in Spanish Harbour, North Channel of Lake Huron (Ontario). J. North Amer. Lake Management Soc. 14(4): 428-439.
Gunn, J. and K.H. Mills. 1998. The potential for restoration of acid-damaged lake trout lakes. Restoration Ecology 6: 390-397.
Gunn, J.M. and W. Keller. 1998. Introduction to special issue on restoration of acid-stressed lakes. Restoration Ecology 6: 316-317.
Keller, W. and N.D. Yan. 1998. Biological recovery from lake acidification: Zooplankton Communities as a model of patterns and processes. Restoration Ecology 6: 364-375.
Nkongolo, K.K. 1999. RAPD variations among pure and hybrid populations of Picea mariana, P. rubens, and P. glauca (Pinaceae), and cytogenetic stability of Picea hybrids: identification of species-specific RAPD markers. Plant Systematics and Evolution 215: 229-239.
Nkongolo, K.K., K. Klimaszewska, and W.S. Gratton. 1998. DNA yields and optimization of RAPDS patterns using spruce embryogenic lines, seedlings and needles. Plant Mol. Biol. Rep. 63(3): 474-484.
Plantard, O., J.D. Shorthouse and J.-Y. Rasplus. 1998. Molecular phylogeny of the genus Diplolepis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae). Pp. 247-260. . In. G. Csóka , W.J. Mattson, G.N. Stone and P.W. Price, eds. The Biology of Gall-Inducing Arthropods. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-199. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station. St. Paul, MN, U.S.A. 329 pages.
Schönrogge, K., L.J. Harper, S.E. Brooks, J.D. Shorthouse and C.P. Lichtenstein. 1998. Reprogramming plant development: Two approaches to study the molecular mechanism of gall formation. Pp. 153-160. In. G. Csóka , W.J. Mattson, G.N. Stone and P.W. Price, eds. The Biology of Gall-Inducing Arthropods. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-199. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station. St. Paul, MN, U.S.A. 329 pages.
Shorthouse, J.D. 1998. Role of Periclistus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) inquilines in leaf galls of Diplolepis (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) on wild roses in Canada. pp. 61-81. In G. Csóka , W.J. Mattson, G.N. Stone and P.W. Price, eds. The Biology of Gall-Inducing Arthropods. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-199. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station. St. Paul, MN, U.S.A. 329 pages.
Winterhalder, K. 1999. Report on a visit to Candiota Mine, March 1999, with critique and recommendations. Report to CANMET. 58 pp.