IODE Canada

2008 IODE WAR MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP WINNER

June 2008

PhD Scholarship Awarded to TRENT University STUDENT Helen Margaret Baulch

IODE Canada has awarded an IODE War Memorial Doctoral Scholarship to candidate Helen Margaret Baulch. IODE initiated this award in 1918 to commemorate Canadians who sacrificed their lives for peace and freedom. Initially, bursaries were granted to children of men and women who lost their lives or were permanently disabled while fighting for Canada. Today, applicants are judged on academic achievement and potential. They must be Canadian citizens and in at least their second year of a doctoral program at a Canadian or Commonwealth University. Scholarships are valued at $15,000.

Ms Baulch was born in Peterborough, Ontario. She earned her BSC Honours, Co-op Biology at the University of Waterloo in 1999, MSc Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta in 2002 and is now studying Watershed Ecosystems at Trent University. Her research focuses on issues affecting Canadian rivers, lakes and the potential for climate change to exacerbate effects of acidification and nutrient pollution.

Helen has won several prestigious awards including three National Science and Engineering Research Council Awards, an Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology and the Dean’s PhD Awards. She is the author and co-author of numerous academic and non academic publications, as well as three primary publications in peer reviewed journals.

Helen has acted as a volunteer consultant, assisting in developing lab and field components for biology curricula at the Royal University of Phnom Penh. Her research has been used by the United Nations while working on programs with the World Conservation Union.

Ms Baulch hopes that through her career as a professor at a Canadian university she can influence public policy to protect our fresh waters and spur a positive response to climate change.

IODE Canada is proud to support this worthy student with a 2008 IODE War Memorial Scholarship.