Proceedings of the NSIS – Volume 44, Part 2 – 2008

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Halifax, Nova Scotia
ISSN 0078-2521
Vol 44 2008 Part 2 (Price $9)
(Completion of Vol. 44)

CONTENTS
 

New Distribution Records for Flowering Plants in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia

Barry R Taylor, Jonathan Ferrier, Randolph Lauff and David J Garbary

109
Are Industrialized Fisheries Sustainable?

Alan Longhurst

125
Squalene in Nova Scotian Deep-Sea Sharks and in the Pacific Eulachon

RG Ackman and A Timmins

141
Assessment of Environmental Conditions in Sydney Harbour: General Introduction

PA Yeats

149
 

Sources and Distribution of Metal Contamination in Surficial Sediments of Sydney Harbour, Nova Scotia

 

DH Loring, PA Yeats and TG Milligan

153
 

Heavy Metal Distributions in the Waters of Sydney Harbour, Nova Scotia

 

PA Yeats and JA Dalziel

171
 

Risk Estimates: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Sydney Harbour Sediments and Lobster

 

Thomas L King

187
NSIS Student Science Awards 2007

Prize Winning papers

201
 

Pseudoscience and the Paranormal: Obligations and Opportunities for Scientists and Science Educators

 

Jason Loxton

203
 

Turmeric: Not So Spicy After All

 

Robert G Harris

213
NSIS Presidential Address and Reports from Council Officers

Session 2006-2006

223
By-laws of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science (revised 2008)

 

231

Editorial Board: RG Ackman, M Dadswell, S Payne, B Petrie, DJW Piper, A Taylor,

M Willison

Editor: James E Stewart

Associate Editor: Peter Wells

@NOVA SCOTIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, 2008

Layout by Gail LeBlanc; Printing by Halcraft Printers Inc.

Date of Publication: September 2008

Copies of the Proceedings may be purchased from Michelle Paon, Killam Library, Dalhousie University. E-mail: [email protected]