2025 Honoree
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Levi Jonathan Lundell University of Saskatchewan |
2025 Karl C. Ivarson Scholarship to Mr. Levi Jonathan Lundell (UofS)
Levi was born, and grew up, in Saskatchewan on an acreage in the forest west of Prince Albert. He spent much of his youth either exploring the surrounding forest or tending the family’s goats. He came to Saskatoon for university and completed an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science at the U of S, after-which he followed that well-worn path to the U of S graduate program in Soil Science. Being jointly supervised by Drs. Derek Peak and Katherine Stewart, his research attempts to use synchrotron techniques whenever possible, and it focuses on the ecological restoration of mine sites. Specifically, he is interested in understanding plant-metal(loid) interactions that occur between native boreal plants and mine tailings under anthropogenic or natural revegetation of metal mine tailings and how these processes affect metal(loid) movement and speciation.