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first book was targeted at professionals and academics. Dr. Hrudey, a world-renowned expert on drinking water safety and APEGA’s current President-Elect, was a member of the Research Advisory Panel for the resulting Walkerton Inquiry and helped develop recommendations to ensure of the safety of Ontario’s water supply. Since then, he’s been appointed to several expert panels on safe drink- ing water, including one looking at safe drinking water for First Nations. He has received several awards for his work, including APEGA’s 2013 Research Excel- lence Summit Award and the 2012 A. P. Black Award of the American Water Works Association. Mrs. Hrudey, who worked as a microbiology technologist at the Alberta Provincial Laboratory of Public Health, has participated in various environmental health risk studies, and co-authored several papers and book chapters on safe drinking water. -Corinne Lutter Readings … continued
LUNCH MONEY To the left and right, Lorne White, P.Eng., and Randy Duguay, P.Eng., members of the former CSEM Edmonton chapter, present a cheque for $8,613 to AEF CEO Len Shrimpton, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.). The money was raised through networking luncheons. -photo by Corinne Lutter
here because of our unique geological history, which permitted the Peace Region to collect dinosaur and related fossils for a few million years while most of the rest of the province was under salt water.” Dr. Hunt, an engineering instructor at Grande Prairie Regional College (GPRC) and a Member of the APEGA Peace Region Branch Executive, is also on the executive of the Palaeontological Society of the Peace (PSP). Both the college and the society spent more than a decade collaborating with politicians and community members in the hopes of bringing a new dinosaur museum to life. Eventually, the County of Grande Prairie took up the challenge and started fundraising for the project. Read more about Alberta's badlands and the new museum in Focal Point, starting on page 74. PSP and GPRC continue to support local dinosaur research.
They are currently doing a major dating research project on the stratigraphy of the area, examining which formations are likely to contain new and unique dinosaur fossils. APEGA’S MANAGING TRANSITIONS PICKS UP AWSN PARTNERSHIP AWARD Retention and advancement of women in science and engineering is one of the pillars of the Alberta Women’s Science Network (AWSN). It’s also one of the end goals of an APEGA resource guide, Managing Transitions: Before, During and After Leave , developed two years ago by the Women in APEGA group. The guide helps APEGA Members and their employers plan for smooth leaves of absence — such as maternity leaves — and trouble-free transitions back into the workforce. At AWSN’s inaugural awards gala, held in March at the University of Calgary,
ON THE HUNT FOR HADROSAURS
Over the past 25 years or so, Dr. Bert Hunt, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.) , has spent countless hours working alongside palaeontologists to unearth the Peace Region’s prehistoric secrets. When the new Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum opens this fall near Grande Prairie, it will be a thrill for him to see some of the fossils he’s helped excavate, restore and find — perhaps a pachyrhinosaurus bone cast or part of a hadrosaur skeleton — put on display. Even more exciting will be the chance this summer to head back out into the field on more fossil hunting expeditions. “I can put on my rubber boots, and some mosquito spray, and walk with the crew for hours, up and down the banks of a river or creek, looking for the dinosaur bones of a new species,” he says. “We really do have this possibility
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