Seminar: Trace Element and Pb Isotopic Analyses of Honey: An Urban Biomonitor for a Changing World

Kate Smith, Ph.D. student

Friday, October 19, 2018
3:00 – 4:00 pm
MCML 154, 6363 Agronomy Rd, UBC

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Kate is a doctoral student working with Dr. Dominique Weis at the Pacific Centre for Isotopic and Geochemical Research in the Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at UBC. Kate’s work explores the distribution of environmental pollution using honey as a biomonitor. Trace element and isotopic fingerprints of honey samples (and other bee products) from the greater Vancouver area serve as a proxy for chemical snapshots of ~2 km-diameter regions (the range of a typical honey bee). Thus, one can assess small-scale variations in trace elements, and their isotopes, of particular interest to pollution processes.

ALL ARE WELCOME!