il Volume 20, Number 8 February 19, 1976 Biological survey of the Speed and Eramosa Rivers In the middle of Januarys cold snap, 39 The main objective of the present survey is Guelph students spent an afternoon wading to establish a solid baseline against which any through the icy water of the Speed River, changes which result from the new Guelph dam reaching in with bare arms to sample organisms may be measured. One stated purpose of the on the river bottom. They were senior dam is pollution dilution and future classes fisheries and marine biology students carrying will be able to test that hypothesis and publish out a pollution survey. their findings for use in the development of The survey is to estimate the numbers and other water management programs. kinds of invertebrates. "It is a fish-eye view," Sampling stations stretched from Victoria says Professor J.B. Sprague, Department of Road just below the dam to the mouth of the Zoology, their instructor. "The immature Speed at Preston and was a follow-up to a stages of insects as well as worms, snails and similar study carried out last September by si milar organisms whose natural habitat is 32 Guelph students. They found that the stream bottom, reflect the health of the water entering Guelph by the Speed and entire aquatic community and indicate the Eramosa Rivers is clean, but farther downstream quality of water at a given location during the where they merge and flow through the down- previous weeks or months. The whole exer- town area, it is slightly to moderately cise is practical training in a common method polluted. There are indications of some slight used by biologists in government and industry. improvement in the Eramosa as compared At the same time, analysis of the results calls with the findings of a 1972 biological survey forth the students theoretical knowledge on carried out by the Grand River Conservation ecological diversity and statistical analysis." Authority, while other data showed close The indices used are the Trent Biotic agreement between the two surveys. Index and the Shannon-Weiner Diversity Practical training includes wet knees and cold The results of the September study have been Index which between them reflect both hands for this Guelph student. made available to the City of Guelph, the numbers and varieties. Some 11,641 speci- Grand River Conservation Authority, and the mens of 123 different kinds of organisms were river which is usually in good shape for other Ontario Department of Environment. Plans collected and are being tabulated and analyzed uses by man; significant differences in either for the future include further studies to using programs supplied by the Institute of of the indices from station to station, however, identify the principle sources of pollution Computer Science at the university. Diverse suggest the intrusion of pollutants which call after which chemical analysis can be employed and balanced communities indicate a healthy for further investigation. to determine their nature. q The winners — Mills Hall team for the best snow sculpture of two beavers at winter carnival. And at the right, the judges. Professor M. Anderson, Languages, is one of three A group of British and French drainage contractors the discussion of on-going research and maximizing Ontario university teachers to have been invited to a visited the university recently. Professor R.W. Irwin, collaboration between the member universities. national meeting (Ottawa, April 8 and 9) at which Engineering, spoke to them at the Arboretum Centre, Professor J.A. Neill, Psychology, has been awarded a a Canadian Institute for Research on Womens on the extent of drainage problems in Ontario. $5000 grant for computing services on the project, Experience will be established. Professor Andersen Item bank for course and teaching evaluation. The has been one of the consultants to the committee that Dr. Amy Kaminsky, Buchnell University, delivered project was described briefly in Teaching Forum, has over the past year worked towards the establish. a lecture before a group of Spanish students at November, 1975. ment of the institute. Guelph on the subject The house of Bernarda Alba, a play by Spanish author F. Garcia-Lorca. Dr. Professor Cathy OBrien, Department of Human Professor P.K. Basrur, Biomedical Science, has left Kaminsky was introduced by Professor M. Andersen, Kinetics, taught a master class in dance at the to spend two months at the Jouy-en-Josas research chairman, Department of Languages, and thanked Cahper regional dance workshop sponsored by the centre in France. While there, she will work in the by Dr. I. Alvarez, Department of Languages. University of Windsor recently. genetics section on inherited anomalies in cattle. The special tour of research was made possible through Professor H. Marmurek, Department of Psychology, Professor Keith Ronald has been invited to join,for a a Cultural Exchange award from the International presented a colloquium entitled A levels-of-processing three year period, the National Research Council Relations Office of the National Research Council framework for word perception and memory to the of Canadas Committee on International Scientific of Canada. cognitive psychology unit at McMaster University Exhanges. The Committee administers five recently. exchanges of scientists programs. These are with Professor Eric Cameron, Fine Art, attended the 64th Brazil, Czechoslovakia, France, Japan, and the USSR. annual meeting of the College Art Association of Professor A.H. Marston, School of Hotel and Food The exchange is for the purpose of fostering and America in Chicago and chaired a session on Narrative Administration, as international director of the expanding relations between Canada and the partici- in contemporary art. Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Educa- pating countries in the fields of scientific research tion, attended the recent meeting of the CH RIE board and its application on a basis of mutual benefit and Professor E.V. Evans, Nutrition, was a lecturer and of directors in St. Louis, Missouri. Professor Marston, reciprocity. panel participant in Food for thought, a one-day has been named a fellow of the Hotel, Catering and seminar on nutrition at Sheridan College of Applied Institutional Association of London, England. Professor S. Safe, Department of Chemistry, recently Arts and Technology, Oakville. Mans basic needs attended the first North American Chemical Congress for food: cultural, social and biological and Nutrient Professor W.N. McDonell, Clinical Studies , presented in Mexico City where he gave an invited paper and non-nutrient food additives were the topics two seminars on large and small animal anesthesiology entitled The photodecomposition of halogenated presented. to the Washington State Veterinary Medical Associa- aromatic compounds. This was presented in a sym- tion in Seattle. Later, Professor McDonell visited the posium on identification and analysis of organic Professor Ron Fawcett, Chemistry, recently returned Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatoon pollutants in waters and was co-authored by Professor from Michigan State University, where he consulted where he presented a paper on the effect of anesthesia N.J. Bunce and Chemistry graduate students L.O. with members of the chemistry department and on pulmonary gas exchange and arterial oxygenation Ruzo and B. Chittim, and 0. Hutzinger (University of presented an invited lecture entitled Electrocatalysis. in the horse. Amsterdam). Dr. Safe, Dr. F. Karasek (University of Waterloo) and Dr. G. Sundstrom (University of Professor Adele M. Holcomb, Department of Fine Professor Kenrick Mose, Department of Languages, Amsterdam) were also co-authors of a paper given by Art, co-chaired a workshop titled Women scholars was elected chairman for 1976-77 of the Ontario Dr. Hutzinger in the same symposium which was in the arts: a progress report, at the national confer- Cooperative Program for Latin American and Caribbean entitled the chemistry of some potential polyhalo- ence of the College Art Association in Chicago Febru- Studies at the winter conference at York University. genated water pollutants. ary 2. The research presented in this session was The universities participating in OCPLACS are McMas- undertaken for a volume of essays on some notable ter, Queens, Western Ontario, Windsor, York, and Professor J.B. Sprague, Department of Zoology, was women in art historical scholarship, criticism and Guelph. The program is designed to further the in Washington for a two-day public meeting on new connoisseurship. Publication of the book, the academic and research interests of members of the toxic pollutant legislation, as member of a task force first of its kind, is expected in 1977. participating universities by providing a forum for for the US Environmental Protection Agency. Bartocci, Gianni, 1975. Changing Attitudes to Love. Gottlieb, Lois C., 1975. Woman the poem, (short Lougheed, E.C., R.G. Rowberry, H. Tiessen. J.W. Question 62-68, London, England. Dec. (Languages) story) in Moving to Antarctica, an anthology of Riekels, (Department of Horticultural Science), J.T.A. womens writings. Ed. Margaret Kamenski, Paradise, Proctor, (HR10), and P.H. Southwell, (School of California: Dustbooks Press, pp. 87-96. (English) Engineering), 1975. Fruit and vegetable production Coiling, S.H., 1975. Aerial photography in land and the energy shortage. HortScience, Vol. 10(5), drainage. Proc. Drainage Engineers conference, Eng. Hilton, R.J., 1976. Notes on some native Canadian Tech. Pub. 126-32. 34-39. (Engineering) cherries. Landscape Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 2, January. (Department of Horticultural Science) Meilke, Karl, 1975. The use of zero constraints in Dickinson, W.T., 1975. Design of rip-rap protection. polynomial distributed lags, Canadian Journal of Ag. Proc. Drainage Engineers conference, Eng. Tech. Pub. Irwin, R.W., 1975. Benefit cost statements. Proc. Econ., Vol. 23, No. 2, July, pp. 53-60. (School of 126-32, 47-64. (Engineering) Drainage Engineers conference, Eng. Tech. Pub. 126- Agricultural Economics and Extension Education) 32, 1-17.