Dept. of REES - October 2016 News

See what we've been up to this summer in the Department of REES!

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A study by Drs. Ellen Goddard and James Rude was featured in Alberta Farm Express. The study found that Canadian cattle producers receive a $14 benefit for every $1 in national checkoff fees invested in research and marketing activities.
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Focus on ethically raised beef and impact of heavy rains at the Annual REES Farm Tour in Kingman, AB
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REES alumni and founders of Reclaim Urban Farm win
U of A Alumni Innovation Award
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Professor Emeritus Murray Hawkins presents awards to first place winners at 3 Minute Thesis competition
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REES Fall 2016 Presentation Schedule

(From L to R)
Frank Tough, Associate Dean (Academic) & Professor, Faculty of Native Studies.
Ewa Zawojska, Doctoral Research Fellow, Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies. Richard Vyn, Associate Professor, Department of Food, Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Guelph.

We invite all Faculty Members and students to attend our
Fall 2016 Seminars and Brown Bag Workshops.

Thurs, Oct 27 - Amrita Singh, Dept. Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta (brown bag)

Fri, Oct 28 - Bruno Nkuiya, Department of Economics, University of Alberta (seminar)

Thurs, Nov 3 - Ewa Zawojska, Doctoral Research Fellow, Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies (brown bag)

Thurs, Nov 17 - Sven Anders, Dept. of REES, University of Alberta (brown bag)

Thurs, Nov 24 - Frank Tough, Professor of Native Studies, University of Alberta (brown bag)

Fri, Dec 2 - Richard Vyn, Dept. of Food, Agrcultural and Resource Economics, University of Guelph (seminar)

>> All presentations take place at 3:30pm in GSB 550 <<

Details for all events are posted on our Department website at www.rees.ualberta.ca.
For more information about any of these events, please contact
Amy Masand at: amy.masand@ualberta.ca

Monday, November 14th

Thursday, November 17th

Saturday, November 19th

Friday, December 9th

AAEA / REES Lecture (6:00pm - Faculty Club)
Speaker: Dr. Derek Brewin, University of Manitoba

Grad Studies pizza & pop info night (5:00pm)
GSB 550

REESSA presents Heritage Night (6:00pm)
Belgravia Community Hall (lower level)

Department Christmas Buffet (12:00pm - GSB 550)
$10 for staff / $5 for students

(From L to R) Dr. Maik Kecinski, Alex Qiu Laliberte, Dr. Heny An

REES Academics

Dr. Maik Kecinski joined the Department in early October as an Assistant Professor in Economic Development in Northern and Aboriginal Communities. He joins us from the University of Delaware, where he was a post-doctoral fellow.

Dr. Feng Qiu and her partner Larry welcomed their first child, Alex Qiu Laliberte on August 13th at 11:35am (7lbs 5oz)

Dr. Henry An was awarded the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) Certificate of Merit for teaching.

Dr. Violet Muringai was awarded the 2016 Richardson-Applebaum award for best PhD thesis, which is given every year by the Food Distribution Research Society (FDRS) in the United States.

Her thesis is titled: "Trust, Perceptions, Intentions and Behaviour in Meat Consumption."

On Sept. 7th, 15 of our 2nd year MSc students participated in the

3rd Annual 3 Minute Thesis Competition

There was a three way tie for first prize between Claire Doll (front row, far left), Arenna (front row, centre) and Yanan Zheng (middle row, fourth from right)

Our new cohort of graduate students

In September, we welcomed 13 new MSc students to the Department.

9 x Agricultural, Resource and Environmental Economics
2 x Risk and Community Resilience
2 x Rural Sociology

Successful Thesis Defences
Congratulations to the students who successfully defended from Aug - Sept 2016.

AUGUST

Alfred Appiah - "Estimating the Economic Value of Drinking Water Reliability in Alberta"

SEPTEMBER

Qi Wang - "Calculating the costs of farmland conservation-case study of Alberta, Canada"

Dareskedar Amsalu - "Expanding Irrigated Agriculture in Alberta: An Economic Impact Assessment"

Daiwei Zhang - “Information Networks and Conservation Auctions: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments”

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