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Dr. Sarah Taggart: Preliminary Assessment of Safe Initial Stay Times over Consecutive Workdays for Younger and Older Men

Archana Weerasooriya: Effect of Cooling Centers on Renal and Gastrointestinal Stress in Older-Adults During Daylong Heat Exposure
[ACSM Exercise and Occupational Physiology Interest Group, Master's Student Award]

Farah Mourad: Age-related Gastrointestinal and Inflammatory Responses when Performing Consecutive Days of Moderate-intensity Work in the Heat

Saeed Linton: Serum Irisin Responses to Daylong Passive Heat Exposure in Young and Older Adults

Dr. Gil Bourgois: Preliminary Assessment Of Initial Stay Times On Work Output For Moderate-Intensity Work In The Heat
[ACSM Exercise and Occupational Physiology Interest Group, Early Career Professional Award]

Sarah Johnson: Changes in Plasma Irisin and BDNF in Response to 7-Day Cold-Water Acclimation in Young Males
[ACSM Exercise and Occupational Physiology Interest Group, Undergraduate Student Award]

Kelli King: The autophagic response to 7-day cold water acclimation in young adults
[1st Place: ACSM Exercise and Occupational Physiology Interest Group, Adolfo M. Hernández Memorial Award - Outstanding Research by a Doctoral Student]

Roberto Harris-Mostert: Defining initial stay times for moderate work in the heat for young and older men: preliminary assessment
[1st Place: ACSM Exercise and Occupational Physiology Interest Group, Emergency Responder Human Performance Lab Master's Student Research Award]

Katie Wagar: Initial stay times for heavy-intensity work in the heat for young and older adults

Kristina-Marie Janetos: Heat Acclimation by Warm-water Immersion Enhances Whole-Body Heat Loss in Older Adults

Brodie Richards: Relation between perceptual and physiological strain following cold and warm fluid ingestion during exercise-heat stress

Nick Koetje: Aging Does Not Influence Whole-Body Heat Loss During Exercise-Heat Stress Following Sleep Deprivation

Nicholas Goulet: Media News Coverage on the 2021 Heat Dome and Homelessness in Canada

Nicholas Goulet: Sharing the Voices of First Responders: Media-Based Composite Narratives of Emergency Medical Service Providers during the 2021 Heat Dome

Nicholas Goulet: L'intersection de la pandémie de COVID-19 et de la canicule de 2021 dans l'ouest du Canada : une analyse de contenu des média numériques canadiens

Caroline Li-Maloney: Identifying the potential health risks and vulnerabilities faced by pregnant people and fetuses during extreme heat events

Emily Tetzlaff: Reshaping Occupational Heat Stress Management Guidelines to Keep Canada’s Diverse Workforce Safe

1st Place Prize - Student Poster Competition

Emily Tetzlaff, Katie Wagar and Roberto Harris-Mostert: Reshaping Occupational Heat Stress Management Guidelines to Keep Ontario's Diverse Workforce Safe

Emma McCourt: Efficacy Of Limb And Neck Cooling For Limiting Heat-related Cardiac Autonomic Disfunction In Older Adults
[1st Place: ACSM Exercise and Occupational Physiology Interest Group, Emergency Responder Human Performance Lab Master's Student Research Award]

Emily Tetzlaff: Klotho And NGAL Responses To Exercise-Heat Stress In Older Men With And Without Type-2 Diabetes

Kelli King: Characterizing Autophagic And Apoptotic Responses To Cold Stress In Healthy, Young And Older Men

Kristina-Marie Janetos: Aging Influences The Modulation Of Reflex Cutaneous Vasodilation During Passive Whole-body Heating

Dr. Robert Meade: Efficacy Of Limb And Neck Cooling For Reducing Thermal And Cardiovascular Strain In Older Adults

Dr. Jeremy McCormick: Autophagy And Apoptosis In Immune Cells Of Older Adults During Day-long Exposure To Indoor Overheating

Emily Tetzlaff: Preparing for Rising Global Temperatures: Workers' Perspectives on Heat Stress in the Canadian Mining and Metallurgical Industry

1st Place Prize - Student Poster Competition


Dr. Robert Meade: Cardiac autonomic function is impaired in older adults during daylong exposure to simulated indoor overheating: a randomized crossover trial.

Dr. Glen Kenny & Emily Tetzlaff: A Hot History, A Hotter Future: Creating a Heat-Resilient Workforce for the Mining Industry in the Face of a Warming Planet


Naomi Tecle: The Effect of Indoor Overheating on Circulating Markers of Extracellular Stress in Healthy Older Adults

Katia Koziel Ly: Mechanisms of Infection and Immunity in Streptomyces Bacteriophages

Dr. Robert Meade: Available Evidence does not Support Electric Fan use as an Effective Personal Cooling Intervention during Hot Weather and Heat Waves: A Critical Review

Nicholas Goulet: Serum Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Following Prolonged Exercise in the Heat

Kristina-Marie Janetos: Regulation of Skin Blood Flow through TRAPA1 Receptors in Young and Older Adults
[3rd Place Poster Presentation (MSc)]

Dr. Nathalie Kirby: Type 2 diabetes is associated with impaired sweating on the trunk but not limbs during exercise-heat stress. [1st Place Poster Presentation (Post-Doctoral)]

Brodie Richards: Effect of ice-slurry ingestion on whole-body heat exchange during intermittent work in the hot-dry conditions.


Nicholas Goulet: Age-associated changes in autophagy in peripheral blood mononuclear cells following maximal exercise: preliminary observations.

Dr. Rob Meade: Body temperature and cardiovascular regulation in older adults during 8-hr exposures to conditions experienced indoors during heat waves.

Dr. Jeremy McCormick: The effect of increasing levels of hyperthermia on autophagy in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from young adults.

Dr. Nathalie Kirby: Menstrual cycle modulates the contribution of dry heat loss to total heat loss during exercise in warm-dry conditions in young, recreationally active females.

Kelli King: The autophagic response to acute exercise in young men is exercise intensity dependent and influenced by exposure to heat.

Morgan McManus: The autophagic response to passive and exercise-induced increases in body core temperature in young adults.