Hello all,
I recently received a notice of an upcoming seminar on November 4 to be hosted by the Federation of Cottage Associations, of which the CLPOA is a member.
What excited me about it is that the featured speaker is Dr John Smol, who in my humble opinion, is an absolute god when it comes to researching Ontario lakes, Who else has come close to his research and publication production, with 24 books and 700 papers bearing his name?
Quoting from Wikipedia,
John P. Smol, OC FRS FRSC[2] is a Canadian ecologist, limnologist and paleolimnologist who is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Biology[3] at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, where he also held the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change for the maximum of three 7-year terms (2001–2021).[4] He founded and co-directs the Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL).
The author or editor of 24 books and over 700 journal publications and book chapters,[1][10] Smol is an international lecturer and media commentator on a variety of topics, but most dealing with environmental issues. From 1987 to 2007, he edited the Journal of Paleolimnology.[11] Since 2004, he has been editor of the journal Environmental Reviews.[12] He is the series editor of the Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research[13] book series. He held the Chair of the International Paleolimnology Association [14] for two three-year terms ending in August 2018, and until recently was President (2019–2022) of the Academy of Science, Royal Society of Canada.
The cost to register for this Webinar is $40. There are other speakers, along with Dr Smol. More info on them and the program can be found here.
I was thinking about going out on Halloween as some sort of diatom, but a blob of blue-green algae might be an easier costume to make, and would require less explaining! Happy fall everyone.
Chandos Lake Science 2 