Sudbury ’99 Conference Donates Funds to University

Members of the institutions that organized the Sudbury ’99 Mining and the Environment Conference have made a substantial donation from its proceeds. This international conference, which was held in Sudbury in September 1999, attracted more than 400 experts from 12 countries.

The chair of the conference, Dr. Douglas Goldsack, has given Laurentian University $58,900 in support of research at the undergraduate level at the university. In addition to providing the endowment for a significant research fellowship, the conference proceeds will provide $5,000 to help set up an Environmental Network, similar to the World Rock Boring Association, and $25,000 in seed money for a third environmental conference, Sudbury 2003.

According to Goldsack, who is executive director of Laurentian University’s Centre in Mining and Mining Environment Research, “The committee is delighted with the success of the conference. We hope the new research fellowship will attract some of the very best students to pursue research work in such fields as acid mine-drainage control, revegetation, watershed and lake recovery and mine decommissioning.”

The new Sudbury ’99 Mining and the Environment Summer Research Fellowship will be initially valued at $2,000 to help support an undergraduate student in a unique approach to problem solving in the mining environment area.