Research Day: Domzy & Hircock talks

[Bonnie MacKinnon, (705) 748-1495]

Research Day at Trent -- fish, rabies, wireless
computers and more

PETERBOROUGH -- Find out what 14 Trent-based researchers are
exploring these days at the annual Natural Sciences Research Day April 6.
Each will give a 20-minute glimpse of his or her current projects --
everything from wandering atoms and bird breeding to global climate
models and raccoon rabies -- in the Environmental Sciences lecture hall
from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. There will be a tour of the new physics wing
before lunch.
The first session starts at 9 a.m. and features:
9:05 Igor Svishchev (Chemistry), Computer Simulations of
Liquids and Solids
9:25 Jim Karagatzides (Biology) Community-Based Resource
Management: (i) Monitoring Acid Rain and (ii) Effects of Spent
Lead Shot in First Nations Communities
9:45 Mike Robinson (Physics/Trent-Queen's) Tracking the
Wandering Atom
10:05 Rick Rosatte (Ministry of Natural Resources) Tactics to
Prevent Racoon Rabies From Becoming Established in Ontario.

The second session at 10:40 a.m. features:
10:40 Don Mackay (Chemistry/Environmental and Resource
Studies) Contamination Choreography on the Environmental Stage:
Figuring Out the Dance
11 Dawne Burke (Biology/Watershed Ecosystems Graduate
Program) Is Bigger Better? ... A Case for Birds Breeding in Forest
Fragments
11:20 Kenzu Abdella (Mathematics) Modelling Boundary-Layer
Processes For Use in Global Climate Models
11:40 Brian Hircock (Computer Studies/Applications of
Modelling in the Natural and Social Sciences) File Migration in a
Distributed File System
noon Dave Evans (MNR) Biology and Conservation of Lake Trout
Populations in Ontario.

The third session after lunch features:
1:10 Bart Domzy (Computer Studies) Wireless Computer
Communication
1:30 David Pedersen (Chemistry/Trent-Queen's) Cluster (Not
Atom!): The Smallest Component of an Element that Still Retains
the Properties of that Element
1:50 Claire Wilson (Biology/WEGP/INSTRUCT) Factors
Affecting the Yields and Sustainability of Maize Crops Near
Texcoco, Central Mexico
2:10 Mark Ridgeway (MNR) Long-Term Studies of the Ecology
of Small Mouth Bass
2:30 Bing Zhou (Mathematics) How to Divide the Plane Into
Triangles Without Short Edges.