<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span><div><span id="a4840538-9908-4fe8-b0f7-ad87c54059fa"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear Friends of CANPOLIN,</font></span></div><div><span id="a4840538-9908-4fe8-b0f7-ad87c54059fa"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><br></span></font></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Dr. James Thomson</span></font></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">, a University of Toronto researcher who is also a member of NSERC-CANPOLIN (Working Group 2), has just published the results of a 17-year study exploring pollination and fruiting success of the glacier lily, </span></font><i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Erythronium grandiflorum</span></font></i><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">, in Colorado. The novel study provides </span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">the first long-term evidence that climate change may be linked to a decline in pollination.</span></font></span></span><div><span id="a4840538-9908-4fe8-b0f7-ad87c54059fa"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Lucida, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 12px; "><ul class="cit-auth-list cit-first-element" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.4em; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; display: block; "><li class="first-item" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; "><span class="cit-auth" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; white-space: nowrap; "><br></span></li></ul><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap; font-size: small; "><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: nowrap; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><b>Full citation and link to paper</b>:</span></font></span></div><ul class="cit-auth-list cit-first-element" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1.5em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.4em; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; display: block; "><li class="first-item" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; "><span class="cit-auth" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; white-space: nowrap; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">James D. Thomson. 2010. </span></font></span></li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 14px; font-weight: 800; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><a href="http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/365/1555/3187.abstract">Flowering phenology, fruiting success and progressive deterioration of pollination in an early-flowering geophyte</a></span></font></span></ul><cite style="margin-top: 0.25em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: normal; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; "><abbr class="cit-jnl-abbrev" title="Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. </span></font></abbr><span class="cit-vol" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">365</span></font></span><span class="cit-sep cit-sep-vol" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">:</span></font></span><span class="cit-pages" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; "><span class="cit-pages-fpage" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">3187</span></font></span><span class="cit-sep cit-sep-page-range" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">-</span></font></span><span class="cit-pages-lpage" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-style: none; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">3199.</span></font></span></span></cite></span></span></font></span></div><div><span id="a4840538-9908-4fe8-b0f7-ad87c54059fa"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: medium; "><br></span></font></span></div><div><span id="a4840538-9908-4fe8-b0f7-ad87c54059fa"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: medium; "><br></span></font></span></div><div><span id="a4840538-9908-4fe8-b0f7-ad87c54059fa"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: medium; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><hr></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><a href="http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/main/newsitems/decline-in-bee-pollination">UNIVERSITY of TORONTO PRESS RELEASE</a></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><o:p> </o:p></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; ">Fears of a decline in pollination confirmed: may be due to climate change</span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Widespread reports of a decline in the population of bees and other flower-visiting animals have aroused fear and speculation that pollination is also likely on the decline. A recent<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">University</span></st1:placetype><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:placename w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Toronto</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>study provides the first long-term evidence of a downward trend in pollination, while also pointing to climate change as a possible contributor.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "> </span></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">“Bee numbers may have declined at our research site, but we suspect that a climate-driven mismatch between</span><st1:personname w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">the</span></st1:personname><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>times when flowers open and when bees emerge from hibernation is a more important factor,” says<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:personname w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">James Thomson</span></st1:personname><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">, a scientist with U of T’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "> </span></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Thomson’s 17-year examination of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:personname w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">the</span></st1:personname><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wild lily in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:personname w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">the</span></st1:personname><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Rocky Mountains of Colorado is one of longest-term studies of pollination ever done. It reveals a progressive decline in pollination over the years, with particularly noteworthy pollination deficits early in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:personname w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">the</span></st1:personname><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>season. The study will be published in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Philosophical Transactions of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:personname w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">the</span></st1:personname><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Royal Society B: Biological Sciences<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">on</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">September 6.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "> </span></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Three times each year, Thomson compared<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:personname w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">the</span></st1:personname><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>fruiting rate of unmanipulated flowers to that of flowers that are supplementally pollinated by hand. “Early in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:personname w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">the</span></st1:personname><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>year, when bumble bee queens are still hibernating,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:personname w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">the</span></st1:personname><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>fruiting rates are especially low,” he says. “This is sobering because it suggests that pollination is vulnerable even in a relatively pristine environment that is free of pesticides and human disturbance but still subject to climate change.”</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "> </span></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Thomson began his long-term studies in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:personname w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">the</span></st1:personname><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>late 1980s after purchasing a remote plot of land and building a log cabin in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:personname w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">the</span></st1:personname><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>middle of a meadow full of glacier lilies. His work has been supported by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:personname w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">the</span></st1:personname><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>U.S. National Science Foundation and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:personname w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">the</span></st1:personname><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "> </span></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">MEDIA CONTACTS:</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "> </span></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">James D. Thomson</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">University</span></st1:placetype><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><st1:placename w:st="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Toronto</span></st1:placename></st1:place></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">416-978-3527</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><a href="mailto:james.thomson@utoronto.ca">james.thomson@utoronto.ca</a></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><o:p> </o:p></div></span></font></span></div><div><span id="a4840538-9908-4fe8-b0f7-ad87c54059fa"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: medium; "><hr></span></font></span></div><div><span id="a4840538-9908-4fe8-b0f7-ad87c54059fa"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: medium; "><br></span></font></span></div><div><span id="a4840538-9908-4fe8-b0f7-ad87c54059fa"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: medium; "><b>Be sure to visit the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><a href="http://www.uoguelph.ca/canpolin/New/new.html"><b>CANPOLIN website</b></a><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for links to articles in the popular press about this groundbreaking study.</b></span></font></span></div><div><span id="a4840538-9908-4fe8-b0f7-ad87c54059fa"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: medium; "><br></span></font></span></div><div><span id="a4840538-9908-4fe8-b0f7-ad87c54059fa"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: medium; "><br></span></font></span></div><div><span id="a4840538-9908-4fe8-b0f7-ad87c54059fa"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: medium; "><br></span></font></span></div><div><span id="a4840538-9908-4fe8-b0f7-ad87c54059fa"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-size: medium; "><br></span></font><br><span name="x"></span><div><div><div><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000099" size="2">Sarah Bates, PhD<br>Network Manager, NSERC-CANPOLIN<br>School of Environmental Sciences - Bovey<br>University of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd East, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1<br>tel: (519)824-4120 X58022 fax: (519)837-0442</font><br></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><a href="http://www.uoguelph.ca/canpolin">www.uoguelph.ca/canpolin</a></font><br></div></div></div><span name="x"></span><br></span><br></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>