BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT:

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There are a lot of interesting people in a lot of interesting departments at
but perhaps the most energetic group of people is located in Biology.

‘Capilano,

Here's a look at

what they've been up to this summer, and what's on their agenda for the future.

This summer the entire Biology department,
including families from age 3 and up went
on a three day field trip to Mt. Rainier
National Park in Washington. The ‘field
trip included an approximately 8 mile (13
km) hike to the glaciers and ice caves and
study of the flora (including Pedicularis
rainierensis, found only on Rainier) and
fauna (including many Hoary Marmots).

BILL GIBSON went on an extended hike/trek
in the Assiniboine Park in South Alberta.

JANET CANNING worked for D.P.A. Consulting
Ltd. on a contract from the Federal Fish-
eries studying the catches of sports fish-
erpersons in Georgia Strait. Ail fish
caught (salmon, dogfish, rockfish etc.)
were analyzed in an attempt to determine
the impact of the sports fishery on the
commercial fishery. Results are pending.
(Will you tell us, Janet?)

JOAN SHARP taught summer school at SFU,
got married and went to Pakistan for three
weeks. Sorry ft was such a dull summer,
Joan.

MALCOLM FITZ-EARLE was busy. He spent 3
weeks in Europe weeks In Europe during which time he vis-
ited a lab in Holland that is doing applied

research into Mosquito control that is
entirely funded by the Dutch government.
Malcolm adds, interestingly, that there

are no mosquitos in Holland. He was also
invited to present a paper at the Ross In-
stitute of the London School of Hygiene &
Tropical Medicine (U. of London) on his
insect control work. {t was a good oppor-
tunity for him to meet with some of the
best geneticists in the business. And he
also published a paper this summer (with
a colleague at UBC) on the Population Dy-
namics of Fruitflies in B.C. Further, he
is working on another paper on Mathematic-
al Models for Insect Control (with a col-
league from Dalhousie U.). A chapter on
his work over the past decade is soon to
be published in a multivolume work on the
Genetics & Biology of Fruitflies (Academic
Press),

BARRY WILLIAMSON will be attending a con-
ference this fall on Lab Safety and will
be reporting back to the department on
this important topic.

spent part of her P.D. doing
research at Capilano College on the hor-
monal relationships in the formation of
Fungal caps. We wouldn't consider attempt-
ing to make a pun out of that.

NANCY RICKER

ANN FRAZIER, NANCY RICKER and BILL’ GIBSON
attended the North West Regional Develop-
mental Biology Meeting in Molala Oregon in
May. The conference included two days of
speakers from N. California, Oregon, Wash-
ington and, BC presenting current research
in development biology.

CHRIS SANDERSON attended a two day confer-
ence for tab Supervisors and Technicians
at Cariboo College last spring.

LIL McDONNELL attended a conference spon-

sored by the B.C. Home Economics Associa~
tion. The keynote speaker talked about
Vitamin Myths.

And KEITH WADE, as usual, topped everyone
else's travel achievements of the summer
by going on a month long trip to China as
part of a Canadian Government delegation.
The trip included excursions to parts of
Western China that have not been visited
by non-Chinese (at least in recent years).
If that wasn't enough, he was involved in
the capacity of an Expert in the Bob
Switzer production of a full-length film
for television on Manning Park
series on Canadian parks).

And Next

Now, we realize that it would be hard to
compete with the glamorous and exciting
activities of the Biology department,
but we're looking for news from = any
other departments in the College about
what you're up to and where your staff
and faculty have been roaming. And if
you're very good (and verbose) we will

also do a full page feature on YOU.

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