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Students Improving Life: Using research to investigate the effects of oil spills on the environment
Tyler Black, a PhD candidate in the School of Environmental Sciences, is studying the impacts of marine diesel oil spills on marine bivalves.
He was recently awarded a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council for his PhD research.