Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Still catching up! Old photos...

8:00 – 10:00 AM: Mutagenesis, Tissue Damage, and Other Mechanisms & Manifestations of Carcinogenesis in Wildlife.

Presenter: Dr. Daniel Martineau. Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Center (Quebecregion), Département de Pathologie et Microbiologie Vétérinaire, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, St. Hyacinth, Quebec, Canada.

10:00 – 11:00 AM: Water Birds

Presenter Dr. Beasley.

Beasley filled in for a speaker who did not make and did his best to address comparative morphology, physiology, and life histories of water birds (gulls, terns, related birds, waterfowl, aquatic-feeding raptors, penguins, and other sea birds).

11:00 AM – Noon: Contaminants and Wild Birds, Part 1.

Presenter: Dr. Beasley

Noon – 1:00 PM: Lunch.

1:00 – 2:00 PM: Contaminants and Wild Birds, Part 2.

Presenter: Dr. Beasley

2:00 – 3:00 PM: Drug Discovery from Marine Organisms.

Presenter: Dr. Peter McCarthy, FAU/HBOI

3:00 – 4:30 PM: Group Project Time:

I met with my group refine specific plans to address our plan for the Niger Delta crisis relating to toxicologic and ecotoxicologic insults. I put together a powerpoint for our group while others did research and planned out what to say.

4:30 – 5:30 PM: Ten-Minute Student Presentations, Plus 5 Minutes Each for Discussion. Group 1 addressed beef production in Canada; Group 2 looked at metropolitan areas and their ecological footprint; Group 3 (my group) address examined the Niger Delta Oil Crisis; and Group 4 developed a program for the Earth to be proposed to a World Conference of National Political Leaders on Effective Methods to Prevent Ecotoxicologic Impacts through Prevention and Clean Up Efforts.

5:30 – 6:00 PM: Faculty and students provide feedback.

Everyone loved our slides…I guess my presentation making skills are useful even in conservation medicine!

6:00 – 7:00 PM: Dinner.

Evening: As usual some of us made our way down to the pool. While there I noticed a submarine in the parking lot and decided to check it out. Apparently, one of the hotel guests has a personal submarine. He even let me get inside and poke around. Once my curiosity was satisfied I went and jumped off the dock into the ocean with some of my fellow envirovets.