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Awards brought home from NSERC Arctic Atmospheric Research Symposium

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The NSERC CREATE Arctic Atmospheric Science Research Symposium was held in Toronto on April 25, 2014.

Three student presentation awards were received by Western students.

Shannon Hicks (at centre in photo) received an honourable mention for the M.Sc. category with her talk “Automating the Purple Crow Lidar”.

Shayamila Gamage (at left in photo) won the M.Sc. category prize with “Water Vapour Retrieval Using CANDAC Raman Lidar, Eureka”.

Emily McCullough (at right in photo) won for the Ph.D. category with “Calibrating the CRL for depolarization measurements”.

Shannon, Shayamila, and Emily work with supervisor Dr. Robert Sica of the Purple Crow Lidar facility.