Faculty Awards

Congratulations to Lesley Warren for a grad award from CVRD Inco Ltd.

Congratulations to Allison Williams for an award from CIHR.

Congratulations to John Eyles for a grant from Partnerships for Health System Improvement (PHSI).

Congratulations to Darren Scott for a sub-award from the University of Vermont.

Congratulations to Darren Scott for being awarded a grant from GEOIDE (Geomatics for Informed Decisions).

Congratulations to Bill Morris for being awarded a one year contract from the Centre for Communication and Information Technology-OCE

Congratulations to Richard Harris and Lee Liaw who were awarded grants from the McMaster Incentive Fund.

Congratulations to Mike Waddington for a NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS) award.

Congratulations to Ian Droppo, an adjunct faculty in the School from NWRI, who is being inducted in the McMaster Alumni Hall of Fame on Thursday this week.

Congratulations to Pavlos Kanaroglou, Bruce Newbold, Darren Scott and Niko Yiannakoulias for their success with three year standard SSHRC grants.

Congratulations to Niko Yiannakoulias for a grant from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).

Yesterday at the Canadian Geophysical Union annual meeting in Banff Hok Woo was awarded the prestigious the J. Tuzo Wilson Medal. Every year the Canadian Geophysical Union presents the J. Tuzo Wilson Medal to scientists who have made an outstanding contribution to the field of geophysics in Canada. The selection process criteria include excellence in scientific or technical research, instrument development, industrial applications, and teaching. Woo becomes only the second hydrologist to win this award. Congratulations Hok!

Congratulations to Ed Reinhardt on receiving a grant from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council for the project: "Exploring a vanished coastal landscape in Holocene Southern Calabria"

Also - congratulations to Ed Reinhardt and Trish Beddows on a grant from National Geographic for the project:"Thecamoebians and foraminifera as a paleoenvironmental tool in the subterranean flooded cave systems of Quintana Roo, Mexico"

Congratulations to;

Mike Mercier on the award of an Arts Research Board grant for "The urban social geography of Toronto in a period of dramatic change, 1901-1911"

Altaf Arain on the award of grants from FLUXNET for "Canadian Carbon Project - Ontario flux station" and "Canadian Carbon Project - C-Class modelling"

Susan Elliott on an award from the Arts Research Board for "An evaluation of a domestic violence initiative within Hamilton Police Services"

Alan Crowe on an award from the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authourity for "Relationship between E coli and algae and persistence of E colia in various habitats along the Lake Huron southeast shore"

Greg Slater on an award from CSAST: Canadian Space Agency for "Isotope tracers of microbial carbon sources, metabolism and biomarkers in the microbialites of Pavillion Lake, BC"

and to Lesley Warren on an award from CSAST: Canadian Space Agency for "Acid mine drainage biominerals: a new platform for the search for astrobiologically relevant biosignatures"

Congratulations to Bill Morris on the award of a five-year NSERC Discovery Grant for "Development of 3D geological models through integration of multiple remote sensing and geophysical data sets"

Nine members of the School are in various stages of five-year Discovery grants from the Environmental Earth Sciences committee, five from Solid Earth Sciences, three from Civil Engineering and one from the Interdisciplinary committee.

Jack Rink on a contract from Public Works Canada for "Optical stimultaed luminescence dating"

Allison Williams on a CIHR grant for "An evaluation of Canada's compassionate care benefit form a family caregiver's perspective"

Pavlos Kanaroglou on a grant from NRCan via UWaterloo for "Climate change and Canadian road trtansport: assessing impacts and adaptations"

Allison Williams on a grant from CIHR for "Family caregiving in palliative and end-of-life care: a new emerging team", in collaboration with colleagues at UVic

Pavlos Kanaroglou on a grant from NRCan for "Climate change and Canadian road transport: assessing impacts and adaptations", in collaboration with colleagues at U Waterloo and a grant from CIHR for "A cohort study of mortality in relation to intera-urban air pollution variability and traffic exposures", in collaboration with Dr Murray Finkelstien, Health Sciences

Congratulations to Rob Wilton on the award of an Arts Research Board grant for "Creating enabling work environments; the role of organized labour"

to Pavlos Kanaroglou on a grant from Infrastructure Canada for "Infrastructures and potential urban futures: a sustainability analysis with applications to Hamilton, ON and Halifax, NS"

and to Rick Bourbonniere (Adjunct Prof from NWRI Burlington) on two grants from Ducks Unlimited Canada for "Management of agricultural landscapes with wetlands and riparian zones" and "Conventional farming inputs on nutrient dynamics and greenhouse gas exchange on riparian wetlands in southern Ontario"

Congratulations to Greg Slater on a grant from the Canadian Space Agency for "Isotopic tracers of microbial carbon sources, metabolism and biomarkers in microbialites of Pavilion Lake, BC"

and to Hok Woo for an award from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada to support a student on fieldwork in the Arctic

Congratulations to Rob Wilton on an award from the Labour Studies program for a survey project entitled 'Creating enabling working environments'

And to Allison Williams, Bruce Newbold and John Eyles on a pilot grant from CIHR for "Operationalizing sense of place: Establishing a survey measurement tool", see here

"Isotopic and Trace Element Determination of Seasonal Shellfish Gathering and Resource Management Strategies on the Northwest Coast"

Congratulations on the renewal of NSERC Discovery Grants for

Carolyn Eyles, for "Deciphering the depositional history of glaciated basins using sedimentology and geomatics" - a five year award

Paulin Coulibaly, for "Data Assimilation for Improved Hydrologic Forecasting" - a five year award

Mike Risk, for "Recent history of the Gulf Stream from deep-water corals" - a four year award

Allison Williams as one of the two PI's (with many Co-I's) on the award of a major grant from CIHR for "Timely access & seamless transitions in rural palliative/end-of-life care"
This is under the Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement (ICE) Grant - Reducing Health Disparities and Promoting Equity for Vulnerable Populations strategic initiative. The process for this is descibed here

and to Darren Grocke on a grant from the McMaster Arts Research Board for "The impact and influence of paleontologist Miss Etheldred Benett on the development of geology in the early 19th Century, with particular reference on her communication with Gideon Mantell"

Congratulations to Altaf Arain on a grant from CFCAS for "Development of a Canadian global coupled carbon model"

and to Bruce Newbold and John Eyles for an award from the Lambton County Community Health Services Department for "Review and analysis of the paper 'Declining sex ratio in a First Nation community"

Congratulations to Greg Slater on

(1) a grant for "Suspended sediment monitoring in Hamilton Harbour as an indicator of the Randal Reef project" from the Great Lakes Sustainability Fund, joint with Brian McCarry (Chemistry) and NWRI

(2) "A geobiological characterization of the freshwater microbialites from Pavilion Lake, British Columbia, Canada" from the National Geographic Society, joint with researchers at UBC

and to Altaf Arain on a grant for "Dissolved organic carbon and carbon cycling in Canadian forests" from an NSERC Strategic grant, joint with researchers from McGill

Altaf Arain on a Personel/Scholarships award from Environment Canada for "Science youth internship program - coupled hydrological-carbon cycle modelling study in the BERMS study area"

and to Henry Schwarcz on an Interdisciplinary grant from NSERC for "Isotopes in archaeology, health and the environment"

Bill Morris on an NSERC grant with a collaborator at UofT for 'exploration of the Bosumptwi Impact Crater, Ghana"

Allison Williams on a CIHR grant for "Timely access and seamless transitions in rural palliative/end-of-life care'

Antonio Paez on an ARB conference grant to attend "Frontiers in transportation: social and spatial interactions" in Amsterdam.

Congratulatioons to Darren Scott on being awarded a research grant from GEOIDE for "Multi-scale multi-agent geo-simulation to support decision making in multi-actor dynamic spatial simulations"

and to Mike Waddington on a research grant from the Ontario Aggregate Resources Corp for "Optimizing ecohydrological protocols to enhance calcareous wetland rehabilitation in abandoned quarries"

Congratulations to Lee Liaw on a grant from the NIH through the University of Michigan for "US minority migration and metropolitan change"

and to Pavlos Kanaroglou on a grant from CIHR through Mike Jerrett for "A cohort study of mortality in relation to intra-urban air pollution variability and traffic exposure"

Congratulations on the award of 3-year SSHRC grants to:

Antonio Páez for "Social influence on travel behavior: a case study of the decision to telecommute"

John Eyles for "Anatomy of an Environmental Decision: The Restart of the Pickering A Nuclear Reactor"

Henry Schwarcz for "Identifying domesticated animals using tetracycline"

Pavlos Kanaroglou and others at Laval University on a grant from SSHRC for "The contribution of human behaviour to environmentally sustainable and safe transportation systems"

Paulin Coulibaly and others at Laval University on an NSERC Cooperative Research & Development with Hydro-Quebec for "Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Probabilistic and Deterministic Hydrologic Modelling"

Altaf Arain on an NSERC RTI grant for "Continuous soil CO₂ concentration measurements using newly developed novel carbocap probes", and also on an NSERC Strategic grant with others at McGill for "Dissolved organic carbon and carbon cycling in Canadian forests"

Altaf Arain for 5 years for "Environmental and physiological controls over carbon dioxide and water vapour exchanges in a chronosequence of pine forests in Canada"

Henry Schwarcz for 5 years for "Isotopes in archaeology, health and the environment"

In addition multi-year awards are in place for Joe Boyce, Jim Crocket, Alan Dickin, Ian Droppo, Carolyn Eyles, Derek Ford, Darren Grocke, Pavlos Kanaroglou, Bill Morris, Antonio Paez, Ed Reinhardt, Jack Rink, Wayne Rouse, Darren Scott, Greg Slater, Jim Smith, Mike Waddington and Lesley Warren

Allison Williams and a co-investigator at UVic on a research grant from CIHR for "Family caregiving in palliative and end-oflife care: a new emerging team"

Bruce Newbold and John Eyles on a grant from Health Canada for "Chemicals of concern in the Great Lakes"

Bruce Newbold on a grant form Health Canada for "Health science framework project under COA 2002"

Congratulations to Richard Harris on being awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his studies on North American suburbs.

" The Fellowships are awarded to men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. The Foundation consults with distinguished scholars and artists regarding the accomplishments and promise of the applicants and presents this evidence to the Committee of Selection."
http://www.gf.org/broch.html#elig

Gerry Middleton is the editor of "Encyclopedia of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks" which Choice Magazine has included in its 2004 annual list of Outstanding Academic Titles.

Mike Waddington has received a grant for "Carbon life cycle analysis for trench peat extraction" from Premier Tech Lte

The MAGS Mackenzie basin Research Network led by Hok Woo and funded by NSERC has been renewed for phase 2

Hok Woo has a sub-grant for 'Modelling the hydrological system of high latitudes from point to basin scales"

Wayne Rouse has a sub-grant for 'Modelling the enrgy and water balance of lakes in the cold regions of Canada'

Ed Reinhradt on a grant form CFCAS for "Ultra high resolution Holocene paleocllimatic and paleooceanographic records from anoxic basins along the BC coast"

Allison Williams for a SSHRC grant for "Tracking quality of life in Saskatoon"

Mike Jerrett for a subgrant from CIHR for "IHRT: respiratory infection in older adults: an interdisciplinary approach"

Walt Peace won the Service to Ontario Geography award at the annual meeting of the Ontario Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers this weekend. The citation reads in
part:

"Walt's dedication to the geography of Canada, Ontario and the local Hamilton area is quite extraordinary, and his dedication is reflected in the success with which he teaches these topics. In addition to his contributions through the School he has participated in numerous community activities.
These include contributing to and appearing in the video history of Hamilton, being active in the cause of and editing a book on the Red Hill Creek expressway, and most recently being on the Board of Ruthven National Historical Site. Walt's main expertise lies in historical geography, but he is also well versed in the economic and urban geography of the region and has supervised numerous fourth-year students writing Honours theses which have all been very carefully and successfully completed.

Walt is a most deserving recipient of this award. His contributions to the geography of Ontario, and to generations of students learning about it, are truly outstanding"

NSERC have announced that the Peatland Ecology Research Group (PERG) of which Mike Waddington is a member has been awarded a Synergy Award for Innovation in the 'more than 2 company category'.

PERG consists of one paleo-ecologist (Claude Lavoie, Laval), a plant ecologist (Line Rochefort, and head of the group), an animal ecologist (Andre Desrochers, Laval), a hydrologist (Jon Price, Waterloo) and one ecohydrologist (Mike Waddington, McMaster). They have 11 industrial partners and have developed a technology to restore mined peatlands to functioning peatland ecosystems.

More information is available at
http://www.nserc.gc.ca/news/2004/p041028bio.htm#laval

A previous Synergy Award was made to Jim Kramer of the School and his collaborators for their work with Kodak on silver in the environment

Gerd Westermann, Professor Emetitus, has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the VI International Symposium on Cephalopods. The citation is:

"In our lifetime, no ammonite worker has become more synonymous with the functional morphology and mode of life to ammonites that Gerd Westermann. His name is intimately associated with questions of the finctinoal significance of septa, buoyancy, and the siphuncular tube. Armed with a formidable intellect, an insatiable curiosity, and a non-nonsense style, he has intriduced the rigorous concepts and theories of architecture and engineering, pressure and depth, to the field of ammonite studies and has thus transformed our view of how these animals lived and evolved. Add to that, a world calss research program in Jurassic ammonites and an equlally profound knowledge of paleobiogeography, please join us in awarding Gerd Westermann a lifetime acheivement recognition in ammonite studies."

Gerd has also been honoured through his career by the naming of 2 genera and 5 species after him.

Allison Williams, with Dr. Kelli Stajduhar (PI, University of Victoria), Dr. Robin Cohen (McGill University), and Dr. Priscilla Koop (University of Alberta) received a CIHR New Emerging Team Grant in Palliative and End-of-Life Care, focusing on family caregivers

Antonio Paez on a Teaching and Learning grant form CLL

Susan Elliott, John Eyles and Sue Keller-Olaman for conference travel grants from the Arts Research Board

Congratulations on the awards of research grants to:
Paulin Coulibaly from the Ministry of Transport of Ontario's Highway Infrastructure Innovation Funding Programme for "Identification of the effect of climate change on future design standards of drainage infrastructure in Ontario"

Pavlos Kanaroglou on an SSHRC Standard Research Grant

John Eyles from Health Canada for "Using scenarios to explore disclosure
needs about potential health hazards"

Richard Harris to attend the 12th International Conference of Historical Geographers in New Zealand

Bruce Newbold for Immigrant Health: social, economic and environmental correlates

This past weekend, Richard Harris and Tricia Shulist (MA 1998) were awarded the Catherine Bauer Wurster prize for best journal article in planning history to be published in 2001 or 2002. The prize was awarded by the Society for American City and Regional Planning History. It was for a co-authored article on the history of the Canadian Veterans' Land Act that was based in part on interviews carried out in the Hamilton area.

From SSHRC:

Richard Harris - Three year grant for "Negociation of housing policy in the British Colonies, 1929 - 1960's"- also a Labour Studies Research Grant in support of Alison Hay's research on "Urban Settlement and the Making of the Working Class in Nairobi, Kenya, 1940-1955.
Bruce Newbold - Three year grant for "evolutionary settlement systems in Canada".

From NSERC:

Jim Crockett - 2 year grant for Studies in noble metal ore genesis and geochemistry.
Alan Dickin and Bob McNutt - 4 year grant for crustal evolution in the Grenville Province.
Derek Ford - 3 year grant for Uranium series, U/pb dating, stable isotope and luminescence studies of speleothems.
Pavlos Kanaroglou - 4 year grant from the CivEng panel for Modelling and simulation of dialy travel patterns in the hamilton cma.
Jim Kramer - 2 year grant for Metal sulfides in the environment.
Antonio Paez - 4 year grant from the CivEng panel for Modeling continuous-space contextual effects in transportation systems.
Ed Reinhardt - 4 year grant for Isotopic tools (Sr, O and C) as an environment indicator for coastal systems.
Jack Rink - 4 year grant for Innovative techiniques in pliocene & quaternary sedimentary geochronolgy.
Wayne Rouse - 4 year grant for Modelling the thermal regimes, energy balances and water balances in northern lakes.
Darren Scott - 4 year grant from the CivEng panel for Spatial aggregation in activity-based travel demand models: exploration, understanding and solution.
Denis Shaw - 5 year grant for Trace element fractionation in igneous and metamorphic processes.
Jim Smith - 4 year grant for Dynamic coupled hydraulic properties and flow instability in contaminated heterogeneous vadose zone porous media.
Mike Waddington - 4 year grant for Coupling peatland eco-hydrology and methane dynamics.
Lesley Warren - 4 year grant for Microbial geochemistry in extreme and contaminated environments.
Fred Hall -- 4 years grant for "Highway quality of service and freeway modelling".

I am pleased to announce, that Susan Elliott is the winner of the President's Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision for the Faculties of Science, Eng. and Health Sciences given by the School of Grad Studies and Grad Students Assn.

Congratulations to Paulin Coulibaly on being awarded a CFI NewOps grant for research on "high-resolution soil moisture through measurement, characterization, modeling and hydrologic applications".

Richard Harris, on a grant from the McMaster Arts Research Board to assist in the publication of his book "Creeping conformity: How Canada became suburban, 1900-1960".

Bill Morris, on additional funding from CRESTech for "Hyperspectral imagery calibration and data integration with gradient airborne magnetometry for mineral exporation in the Sudbury basin".

Jim Smith, on a contract from CRESTech for "An ecologically friendly remediation technology for subsurface pesticide contamination".

Congratulations to Vera Chouinard on having her appointment as acting Director of Women's Studies extended to June 30 2003.

Congratulations to John Eyles on his reappointment as Director, MIEH for 1 July 2002 - 30 Jun 2004.