DFO SCIENTIST WINS PRESTIGIOUS ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA AWARD

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VANCOUVER, B.C. ---
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) announced today that Dr. Robie
Macdonald, a research scientist at the Institute of Ocean
Sciences in Sidney, B.C., has recently been awarded the Miroslaw
Romanowski Medal by the Royal Society of Canada.

The prestigious
award recognizes significant contributions to the resolution of
scientific aspects of environmental problems or important
improvements to the quality of an ecosystem. The award consists
of a bronze medal and an associated annual lecture series for
the honoree.

The Royal Society
of Canada recognized Dr. Macdonald as a world-class scientist,
internationally noted for his work on contaminant pathways in
environmental systems. His research includes the role of the
ocean in transporting contaminants to the Arctic, Arctic
hydrological and ice interactions and organic carbon cycling.
His time-series data for the Beaufort Sea reveals that an
increase in freshwater in the Canada Basin in the early 1990s
was caused for the most part by run-off from rivers rather than
from sea-ice melting as had previously been thought. Dr.
Macdonald has studied all major contaminants suspected to
disrupt development of aquatic organisms, and is recognized
internationally as one of the country's leading experts on the
behaviour of contaminants in the marine environment.

In addition to
his research on contaminants, Dr. Macdonald has studied the
freshwater balance and carbon cycling in the Arctic, both of
which are important components of the global climate system. He
was awarded the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic
Society President's Prize (2000) for leading the synthesis of
Canadian Arctic contaminant studies and was co-recipient of the
Head of the Public Service Award for Excellence in Policy
(2002).

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For further
information:

Diane Lake

Communications
Advisor

Fisheries and
Oceans Canada

(604) 666-0939

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