Nipissing UniversityThree researchers at Nipissing University have received grants totaling $265,000 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada. 

The first grant is 22-thousand dollars per year for five years and is earmarked for research into understanding water movement in the Sturgeon River-Lake Nipissing-French River basin. Meantime, $20,000 per year for five years is going towards research into creating new commercially useful chemical compounds more efficiently.

25 students will also be trained over the tenure of the grant, better preparing them to contribute to research activities in industry, government and university labs. And $11,000 per year for five years is for work that furthers scientific knowledge through the exploration of dimension theory.

Meantime, two assistant professors at Nipissing University are leading an international research team that is working to better understand climate change and forest resources use in a historical context.  Assistant professor of history and geography, Dr Kristen Greer and Dr Adam Csank, assistant professor of geography are overseeing the research team which includes scholars from Penn State University, University of Bristol, University of Liverpool and Memorial University.

They recently traveled to Bermuda to research the historical flow of British North American Timbers.  Objectives included tracing the timbers to Bermuda to create a tree chronology for the Bermuda cedar and to be critical when determining the precise geographic origin of the wood.  The project is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and earned a $75,000 Insight Development Grant.