News & Awards
Awards
Finalist for 2018 BC Premier’s Award
Bralorne-Takla Mine Site
2018 Brownie Award Canadian Brownsfield Network
Category 2: Remediate – Sustainable Remediation and Technological Innovation: BC Hydro Rock Bay Project
2014 Award for Excellence in Environmental Stewardship – Robert E Leckie Award for Quartz Mining
Yukon Energy Mines and Resource: Sä Dene Hes Mine Site
2013 Jake McDonald Reclamation Award
BC Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation: Pinchi Mine
Presentations
Meara Crawford – “Compilation and Evaluation of Fish specific Toxicity Reference Values (TRVs)“
For the Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan (FCSAP)
Alena Fikart – “30 Years of Risk Assessment in BC. Looking Forward, Looking Backward.”
Azimuth Staff Publish in BC’s College of Applied Biologist ‘College Matters’ Newsletter
Practice of Biology Applied to Ecological Risk Assessment of Chemical Stressors.
Select Publications from Our Scientists
Allard P, Fairbrother A, Hope BK, Hull RN, Johnson MS, Kapustka L, Mann G, McDonald B, Sample BE. 2010. Recommendations for the development and application of wildlife toxicity reference values. Integr Environ Assess Manag 6: 28– 37.
Healey, N. 2009. Lead toxicity, vulnerable subpopulations and emergency preparedness. Radiation Protection Dosimetry 134(3-4): 143-151.
Hill, R.A., B.J. Pyper, G.S. Lawrence, G.S. Mann, P. Allard, C. Mackintosh, N. Healey, J. Dwyer and J. Trowell. 2013. Using sparse dose-response data for wildlife risk assessment. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 10(1): 3-11.
Hill, R.A. 2005. Conceptualizing risk assessment methodology for genetically modified organisms. Environmental Biosafety Research 4(2): 67-70.
Hill, R.A., and C. Sendashonga. 2003. General Principles for Risk Assessment of Living Modified Organisms: Lessons from Chemical Risk Assessment. Environmental Biosafety Research 2: 81-88.
Mackintosh, C.E., J. Maldonado, J. Hongwu, N. Hoover, A. Chong, M. G. Ikonomou, and F.A.P.C. Gobas. 2004. The Distribution of Phthalate Esters in a Marine Aquatic Food Web: Comparison to PCBs. Environmental Science and Technology 38(7): 2011-2020.
Mackintosh, C.E., J.A. Maldonado, M.G. Ikonomou, and F.A.P.C. Gobas. 2006. Sorption of Phthalate Esters and PCBs in a Marine Ecosystem. Environmental Science and Technology 40(11): 3481-3488.
Power, E.A. and R.S. Boumphrey. 2004. International trends in bioassay use for effluent management. Ecotoxicology 13:377-398.
Power, B.A., M.J. Tinholt, R.A. Hill, A. Fikart, R.M. Wilson, G.G. Stewart, G.D. Sinnett, and J.L. Runnells. 2010. A risk-ranking methodology for prioritizing historic, potentially contaminated mine sites in British Columbia. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 6(1): 1-10.
Sample B, Johnson MS, Hull RN, Kaputska L, Landis G, Murphy CA, Sorensen M, Mann G, Gust KA, Mayfield DB, Ludwigs J, Munns WR. 2022. Key challenges and developments in wildlife ecological risk assessment: Problem formulation. Integr Environ Assess Manag 0: 1-16.
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Mine Post-Closure Water Quality Monitoring
The lead-zinc mine is located approximately 150 km northwest of Resolute Bay NU in Canada’s high arctic.
Meara Crawford, Presentation
Compilation and Evaluation of Fish specific Toxicity Reference Values (TRVs)