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Lab outing II
May 2024. We went to Parc du Bic again for our annual lab hike. After a rather rainy hike, the weather cleared up just in time for drinks with snobrød over the campfire and some volleyball.
New labs – part one
May 2024. Lab renovations have officially begun! One week into the renovations, the labs are cleared out and we are down to the studs. Progress has been really fast so far and we can’t wait to start working in the new labs this fall!
Tuktoyaktuk campaign 2024
April 2024. Alexie went to Tuktoyaktuk, Inuvik again to sample some nearshore sediments. This joint expedition with colleagues from around the world is part of the FLO CHAR project led by AWI (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany).
International CSRA workshop
April 2024. Steph went to Delmenhorst, Germany for the international Compound Specific Radiocarbon Analysis workshop. Happy to see many familiar faces, meet new community members, present some of our recent work, participate in exciting discussions, and explore what’s next!
GEOTOP student meeting 2024
March 2024. Half of the IBG group went to Stoneham, QC for the GEOTOP 2024 student meeting. Alexie, Marie, and Daniel presented posters of their projects and received great feedback. Steph gave a keynote lecture and André enjoyed the meeting. Daniel won an award for BEST POSTER presentation!
Sampling party
March 2024. Paleogenomics sampling is in full swing this month. Laury-Ann and Marie have been sampling core section after core section in full ‘clean sampling’ gear. Anyone else eager to try?
Cruise of opportunity
Feb. 2024. Laury-Ann sails aboard Amundsen, trying to sample beneath the sea ice in the Saguenay fjord when not ice-breaking/escorting. A new experience for sure!
Quebec Ocean 2024ASM
Feb. 2024. Tommy-Loup and Marie presented their projects at the Quebec Ocean annual scientific meeting. Great job that was celebrated with yet another night of karaoke following the ASM conference dinner….
Untersee expedition II
Dec. 2023. André and Daniel are back from Lake Untersee, Antarctica. Braving some serious weather and logistics issues, they persevered and returned with many samples and geochemical data! A win in the IBG books.
IBG movie club
Nov. 2023. Launching the IBG movie club! In this new monthly feature, we will dive into the cinematic universe of ‘oceanography’ movies. Real classics, blockbusters, and C movies alike. We started with one of the finest, Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic. Here is to hoping that our quota of shark movies stays within 50%.
Return to Antarctica
Oct. 2023. André and Daniel are on their way to Lake Untersee, Antarctica. This time, sampling with 4 hands and equipped with a portable spectrophotometer – let the chemistry begin! We will hear back from them in December!
Experimental Oceanography
Sept. 2023. Time for mission stage, ISMER’s experimental oceanography class onboard RV Coriolis II. This year, Steph was supported by Laury-Ann to teach all things chemical oceanography in the St. Lawrence system (well, water sampling, a lot of SPM filtrations, Winkler titrations, chlorophyll analyses). Marie and Tommy-Loup joined as participants of legs 1 and 2 and the entire mission was a full success! Lab work now continues onshore.
Tuktoyaktuk expedition
Aug 2023. Alexie, André, and Santiago went to Tuktoyaktuk (69°N, MacKenzie Delta) to sample permafrost for incubations. Can you tell sampling was successful?!
GRC Chemical Oceanography
Jul 2023. Road trip to New Hampshire! Steph went to Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester for this year’s Gordon Research Conference Chemical Oceanography. A week full of exciting talks and posters, meeting new colleagues, and a Pearson Lab reunion! A moving wire may have been involved.
Lab outing I
May 2023. We went to Parc du Bic for a day of hiking/climbing along the grande tour. Lunch at the beach, some kite flying, and other beach activities were also involved. There may have been some talk about geology as well.
Coriolis cruise COR2023_01
May 2023. Camille, Santiago, Gwenn, André, and Steph went on the first St. Lawrence cruise of the season. We had lots of fun sampling mud and came back with gravity cores, box cores, and many many surface samples (Van Veen for the win!). Now the lab work starts!
Soirée 180 secondes
Apr 2023. Gwenn participated in the “My project in 180 seconds” competition organized by the Regroupement étudiant de vulgarisation scientifique (RÉVUS) and UQAR. An epic tale of iron and sulfur. Bravo Gwenn!
GEOTOP seminar
Mar 2023. Stephanie was invited to Montreal to give a GEOTOP seminar (‘Tracing terrestrial organic matter export to the ocean: insights from compound-specific radiocarbon analysis in the Arctic and subtropics’). Thanks UQAM professor Nicole Sanderson for the invitation, the IBG lab is looking forward to many future collaborations!
Quebec Ocean conference
Feb 2023. After overcoming some technical hybrid-mode related hurdles, Stephanie gave a QO conference talk entitled ‘Fingerprinting and deconvolving organic matter fluxes in(to) the ocean using compound-specific radiocarbon analysis’.
Quebec Ocean 2023ASM
Feb 2023. We all travelled to Rivière-du-Loup for the 2023ASM and enjoyed a meeting with many presentations, speed networking, and karaoke. Gwenn presented a poster about her work on hypoxia in the St. Lawrence.
Untersee expedition
Oct-Dec 2022. André went to Antarctica, sampling at remote Lake Untersee. This peculiar lake has extreme chemical gradients that we look forward to exploring in detail!
We are live!
Our new IBG webpage has launched. Hello world!
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