REGINA- Two University of Regina students’ research videos have qualified in the first round of a national competition, and they’re looking for support to move on to the second round.
William Ogilvie and Brandon Klug both submitted videos featuring their research projects to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and are now among 32 finalists of students from universities across Canada.
Ogilvie is conducting a national high altitude balloon experiment to study the atmosphere and does so by launching scientific balloons across the country.
Besides bragging rights, the winner will receive a $3, 000 dollar grant to continue their research.
“There hasn’t been a simultaneous launch to collect data across Canada, so this represents a first chance to take a look at all the variables across the country at the same time,” said Ogilvie.
Meantime, his UofR competition and colleague Brandon Klug’s video is focused on the ecology of bats and how they adapt to our extreme prairie climate.
He’s currently conducting his studies out in the field in Alberta. He said the decline in bat population in Canada is something for everyone should be concerned about.
“Ultimately bats are really, really, important for pest control. Anything that threatens their population numbers, we’re going to feel in an increase in mosquitoes to pests for agriculture.”
To help the students move into the second round of competition, you can vote for their videos here before March 20th.
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