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CREATED:20171126T102829
SUMMARY:Using bird droppings to tell us about Ontario pesticide exposure
LOCATION:NORTH WEST BARRIE UNITED CHURCH HALL  464 Ferndale Drive NORTH Barrie
DESCRIPTION:<p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><b><span style="text
 -decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #222222;">Friday, March 16, 20
 18</span></span></b></p><p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0
 %;"><b><span style="color: #222222; background: white none repeat scroll 0%
  0%;"></span></b></p><p style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"
 ><b><span style="color: #222222; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%
 ;">Tehmeena Chaudhry: <br /></span></b></p><p style="background: white none
  repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><span style="color: #222222;">For most people, bird 
 droppings are little more than a messy nuisance. But there&rsquo;s informat
 ion in those droppings! Tehmeena Chaudry, a graduate student at York Univer
 sity, studies the most significant pesticide of the modern age, known in br
 ief as &ldquo;Neonics&rdquo;. These chemicals remain widely used in North A
 merica and elsewhere, and there is great concern about the impacts they hav
 e on wildlife, despite the claims of the manufacturers. Tehmeena&rsquo;s fo
 cus is grassland birds, a group showing severe population declines. She has
  an interesting experimental design that involves dosing a sample of one sp
 ecies with neonics, studying their urine, and then using those results to a
 ssess the exposures of another species in a typical Ontario agricultural co
 mmunity. Her ultimate goal is to determine whether such contaminants may be
  a factor in grassland bird declines, and to see if bird droppings can be u
 sed effectively to assess pesticide loads in farming areas.</span></p>
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