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QRRC's International Collaborators
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Gosro Karimlou,
Msc (left). and
Marlos van Lipzig (right)
(pictured with Dr. Marcel van der Perk)
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Utrecht University has continued to move up
the list of the top 50 research universities in the world, having climbed two
places to reach position number 48 this year in the prestigious annual
‘Academic Ranking of World Universities’ compiled by the University of
Shanghai, which was published on their website today. Utrecht University
has had the highest ranking of all Dutch universities since the ARWU ranking
began in 2003. This year, Utrecht University is placed 12th in Europe
and 48th worldwide.
1) Poster- "Transfer of sediment-associated metals downstream of abandoned and
active mining sites in the Quesnel River catchment, British Columbia" -
Marcel van der Perk, Marloes L.H.M. Van Lipzig, Gosro Karimlou, Philip
N. Owens & Ellen L. Petticrew - March 2011
2) Poster- "Variability of hyporheic exchange in an experimental gravel bed" - Marcel van der Perk, Ellen L. Petticrew & Philip N. Owens - March 2011
Gosro Karimlou,
Msc. and Marlos van Lipzig, Msc. are students of Hydrology and Physical
Geography from Utrecht University in the city of Utrecht,
Holland. They
have conducted their Msc. fieldwork at the Quesnel River Research Centre (QRRC)
under the supervision of Dr. Marcel van der Perk. Dr. van der Perk
is collaborating with Dr. Phil Owens from the UNBC. The researchers from Utrecht are investigating
the effects of mining on the geochemistry of the fine sediments in gravel in
rivers.
Contact- Email- m.l.h.m.vanlipzig@students.uu.nl | |
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The University
of Exeter is ranked in the top one per
cent of universities in the world, according to the Times Higher Education international
rankings and top 10 in the UK
in the Times Good University
Guide 2012. We are also in the top 10 for student satisfaction in the
National Student Survey; for the number of students achieving Firsts or 2:1s;
and for entry standards (students achieving AAB at A level and above).
Dr
Richard Jones, from the University of Exeter, has been coring small lakes and wetlands in the Quesnel watershed
for paleoenvironmental reconstruction, including Boswell Lake with UNBC
research associate Katrina Caley.
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Bob Carlson- Under the guidance of Dr. Aaron Fisk and Dr. James
Peterson of the University of Georgia, USA,
I am assessing the delivery of nutrients and contaminants to Quesnel Lake
via sockeye salmon for my undergraduate thesis. With the help of the Quesnel
River Research Centre (QRRC) staff and the Canadian government, I was permitted
to sample in the fall of 2005. The knowledge the QRRC staff possess pertaining
to the catchment area was an intricate part in making my study a success. In
this pilot study, I sampled sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka), lake trout
(Salvelinus namaycush), rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), mountain whitefish
(Prosopium williamsoni), burbot (Lota Lota), and forage fishes.
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Photo above: Researchers from LJMU at Roberts Glacier.
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The students (photo left) - Barry Forrester (undertaking a PhD within the Faculty of
Education Community and Leisure) and undergraduates Molly Gorman (ECL),
James Claxton (ECL) and Dan Loughran (BIE) - were dropped off by
helicopter and conducted their fieldwork in collaboration with
researchers at the University of Northern British Columbia, Drs. Phil
Owens, Brian Menounos and Stephen Dery. The project was investigating
flow and suspended sediment fluxes in the proglacial zone of this
glacier which is rapidly retreating in response to global warming. The
research focuses on the impact that expanding proglacial zones may be
having on fine sediment supply to rivers downstream, in this case the
Fraser River. It is well documented that salmon spawning success is
linked to fine sediment transport, which is a focus of other UNBC
researchers such as Dr Ellen Petticrew, so climate change may be having
an impact on this.
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University of Vienna, Austria
Photo above: A group of undergraduate and
graduate students under the leadership of Christine Embleton-Hamann (Vienna)
and Olav Slaymaker (UBC) visited the QRRC in summer 2010 as part of a field
school in British Columbia and Alberta.
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The University of Vienna was founded in 1365 and is the oldest
university in the German-speaking world and one of the largest in
Central Europe.
A group of undergraduate and graduate students
(photo left) under the leadership of Christine Embleton-Hamann (Vienna) and Olav Slaymaker
(UBC) visited the QRRC in summer 2010 as part of a field school in British
Columbia and Alberta.
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Photo above: Prof. Kuhn (centre) and students collecting soil samples for
organic carbon analysis.
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The University
of Basel (German: Universität
Basel) is located in Basel,
Switzerland,
and is considered to be one of leading universities in the country. In 2010 QS
World University Rankings ranked the university 137th overall in the world.
Prof.
Klaus Kuhn (photo left) from the University of Basel has been visiting the QRRC with both undergraduate and graduate
students since 2004. Amongst other things, Klaus and students have been
investigating organic carbon levels and patterns below forest stands of various
ages in the Quesnel watershed.
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