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SUMMARY:Using bird droppings to tell us about Ontario pesticide exposure
LOCATION:NORTH WEST BARRIE UNITED CHURCH HALL  464 Ferndale Drive NORTH Barrie
DESCRIPTION:Friday, March 16, 2018\n\nTehmeena Chaudhry: \n\nFor most people, bird drop
 pings are little more than a messy nuisance. But there’s information in tho
 se droppings! Tehmeena Chaudry, a graduate student at York University, stud
 ies the most significant pesticide of the modern age, known in brief as “Ne
 onics”. These chemicals remain widely used in North America and elsewhere, 
 and there is great concern about the impacts they have on wildlife, despite
  the claims of the manufacturers. Tehmeena’s focus is grassland birds, a gr
 oup showing severe population declines. She has an interesting experimental
  design that involves dosing a sample of one species with neonics, studying
  their urine, and then using those results to assess the exposures of anoth
 er species in a typical Ontario agricultural community. Her ultimate goal i
 s to determine whether such contaminants may be a factor in grassland bird 
 declines, and to see if bird droppings can be used effectively to assess pe
 sticide loads in farming areas.\n
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<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
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 ><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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