Each year, students from across Canada gain valuable hands-on research experience at the Canadian Light Source under the tutelage of the MAD Lab. High school and undergraduate students identify a research question they wish to answer that is associated with tree rings and chemical concentrations (as well as other things)! Students postulate a question, decide on the research design, collect the data, and process it at the Canadian Light Source at the University of Saskatchewan and through the MAD Lab. Below is a list of past research projects completed by high school and undergraduate students! A poster summarizing their work is associated with each title where available.
Listed in chronological order:
- Carleton Comprehensive High School (2019): Studying creosote and soil toxicity.
- ECUR 411 (2019): Tree Ya Later!
- Bishop Grandin High School (2019): Simulating Disaster: The effects of heavy metal ions on the flammability of white spruce trees.
- St. Thomas Moore Collegiate (2018/19): May the forest be with you.
- ENVS 110 (FYRE group B [2018]): Playing with FYRE: Giant Mine – Small step.
- ENVS 110 (FYRE group A [2018]): As the years go by.
- John F. Ross Collegiate Vocational Institute (2018): The impact of road salt on the uptake of transition metals in annual rye grass and white pine.
- Carleton Comprehensive High School (2018): Oil spill concentrations of associated metals in river and drinking water.
- ECUR 411 (2018): What Were We Zinc-ing?!
- Bishop James Mahoney High School (2017): A Berry Special Experiment: Analysis of environmental contaminants in Saskatoon berry bushes using XANES and XRF analysis.
- J. Clarke Richardson Collegiate (2017): The speciation of Calcium in a terrified solid biofuel.
- ENVS 110 (FYRE group B [2017]): Spruce it up II! Analysis of the long term effects of mining on black spruce.
- ENVS 110 (FYRE group A [2017]): Spilling the Arsenic Tea on Giant Mine.
- ENVS 110 (FYRE group B [2016]): Spruce It Up! Effects of of the oil sands on trembling aspen and white spruce.
- ENVS 110 (FYRE group A [2016]): The Lord of the Rings: What do trees reveal about pollution in Saint John, New Brunswick?
- Luiseland School Science Club (2016): Chemical comparison of crooked and non-crooked aspen using XRF and XANES technology.