Inaugural Playle Award winner Virginie Roy pose with her award at ATW 2009, with Jocelyne Pellerin (UQAR, ISMER) and Jim McGeer (Wilfrid Laurier University).

Recipient of the 2009 Richard Playle award for outstanding MSc thesis in aquatic toxicology: Virginie Roy, Département des Sciences biologiques, Faculté des arts et des sciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec for her work on "Impact des barrages de castors sur la variabilité spatiale et saisonnière des concentrations en mercure et en nutriments dans les ruisseaux des Laurentides"

Recipient of the 2008 Richard Playle award for outstanding BSc thesis in aquatic toxicology: no nomination for this year

2008 Recipients

Inaugural Playle Award winners Jocelyn Kelly (top picture) and Mary Rose Bufalino (bottom picture) pose with their awards at ATW 2008.

Recipient of the 2008 Richard Playle award for outstanding MSc thesis in aquatic toxicology: Jocelyn Kelly, Toxicology Center, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan for her work on "Ecotoxicological Assessment of Juvenile Northern Pike Inhabiting Lakes Downstream of a Uranium Mill"

Recipient of the 2008 Richard Playle award for outstanding BSc thesis in aquatic toxicology: Mary Rose Bufalino, Department of Biology, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario for her work on "Characterization of OLGA PH J/92, a Cell Line Derived from Neural Tissue of the Freshwater Crayfish, Orconectes limosus, and Comparison with a Goldfish Brain Cell Line"

2007 Recipients

Inaugural Playle Award winners Adrienne Fowlie and Henrietta Parnas pose with their awards at ATW 2007.

Recipient of the inaugural Rick Playle award for outstanding MSc thesis in aquatic toxicology: Adrienne Fowlie, Department of Biology, Queen’s University for her work on “Spatial and seasonal patterns of mercury bioaccumulation in yellow perch from the St. Lawrence River at Cornwall, Ontario”

Recipient of the inaugural Rick Playle award for outstanding BSc thesis in aquatic toxicology: Henrietta Parnas, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa for her work on “Real-time RT-PCR analysis of PPARα and acat1 expressi on in zebrafish: Early developmental profile and fibrate regulation”