David Lapins
I completed my Bachelor of Science at the University of Calgary while competing as a member of the Canadian National Water Polo Team and later working as a Physical Geography Research Assistant in Kananaskis Country, Alberta. My love for water and the outdoors inspired me to pursue a Masters of Science at Carleton University under the supervision of Dr. Jesse Vermaire with the Aquatic Ecosystems and Environmental Change lab.
My research focuses on the environmental impacts of mining activities in and around Yellowknife on Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. Specifically, I’m studying how climate change may affect the long-term fate of arsenic contamination in lake sediments and whether or not a changing climate could promote the diffusion of arsenic from the lake sediments into the overlying water.