Environment Division Research and Development Award

The 2010 winner is:

Scott Mabury
University of Toronto
Department of Chemistry

Mabury was raised on a farm in Missouri, majored in chemistry at Northland College, and then served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines. He worked with Don Crosby at the University of California–Davis for his doctoral work in aquatic photochemistry and his first foray into fluorine chemistry. The strong attraction of building an environmental chemistry program brought him to chemistry at the University of Toronto in 1995; the environmental chemistry program now has seven full-time faculty and strong undergraduate and graduate programs. Mabury built the Analest analytical environmental chemistry facility and has won multiple teaching awards. The Mabury group has broad research interests with heavy emphasis on the environmental chemistry, fate, disposition, and persistence of organofluorine compounds. Mabury has had numerous talented students and to date 11 PhDs and 13 MScs have graduated from his group and four alumni now hold academic appointments. He served one year as associate chair undergraduate (for chair Dave Farrar) and then six years as chair of chemistry during which he hired 11 new faculty, renovated the chemistry teaching, NMR, mass specrometer, and numerous research labs, and had great fun. His free time now is taken up serving as vice-provost academic operations and in running his Northumberland County Farm with his partner Donna and daughter Scotia.

Previous winners of the CIC Environment Division Research and Development Award

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Terms of Reference

This award replaces the previous Environmental Improvement Award. The award was established by the CIC Environment Division in 2009.

It is awarded for distinguished contributions to research and/or development in the fields of environmental chemistry or environmental chemical engineering, while working in Canada. One award will be available each year.

Deadline for Application: July 2 each year.

Sponsor: CIC Environment Division

Award: a framed scroll, $1,000 cash and up to $1,000 for travel expenses, if required.

The award shall be presented at the annual Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition or Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference. The recipient will be required to present an award lecture.

Membership in the Institute is not a prerequisite for receiving this award.

All nominations will remain in force for three years. Nominators are responsible for keeping the record of the nominee up to date and complete.

The award shall be presented annually unless the Committee considers that no suitable candidate has been nominated.