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BUREC Committee - 2011-2012
 

The Brandon University Research Ethics Committee (BUREC) is a sub-committee of the Senate Research Committee. BUREC follows the 2nd Edition of the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans, and the principles outlined in Brandon University's Policy on Academic Integrity in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity.

All research, class projects, undergraduate and graduate theses that involve human participants must receive approval from BUREC before any data collection begins.

Applications are to be submitted electronically to burec@brandonu.ca You must also submit 2 signed hard copies of the Ethics Certificate to the Research Office (Room 113 Clark Hall). If you have any questions about the application process contact (204) 727-9712 or burec@brandonu.ca.

 
BUREC Application Review Flowchart
 
 
Application Deadline Meeting Date
   
February 13, 2012 February 27, 2012
March 12, 2012 March 26, 2012
April 16, 2012 April 30, 2012
May 14, 2012 May 28, 2012
June 11, 2012 June 25, 2012
   
 
Application Documents
 

  Application Form* updated January 2008
Student Applicants - BUREC requires that your supervisor reads and approves your application prior to submission. The Committee reserves the right to request additional revisions.

   Ethics Certificate * updated in 2008

   Ethics Certificate for Class Projects
* updated March 2009

  Application for Modification to Previously Approved Project

  Annual Progress Report/Final Report

  BUREC Policy for Class Projects

Because BUREC meets only once a month, it is essential that applicants apply for approval well in advance of the project commencement. This is to ensure that BUREC will have the opportunity to provide feedback and to allow the researcher to make any requested revisions and to resubmit in time for the next regularly scheduled meeting.
 
BUREC Application: Attachment Templates
 
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 Sample Consent Form
 Oath of Confidentiality
 
 
Brandon University Research Office
Last updated Apr 26, 2012.
 
 Research Profile
   
Dr. David Greenwood
Professor & Chair,
Biology &
Coordinator, Environmental Science Program

 

Principal research interests: ‘deep time’ climate change and the reconstruction of Cenozoic vegetation using the plant megafloral record. Key research areas:

  1. Western Canadian and Arctic Cenozoic fossil floras.
  2. The paleontological proxy record of past climate (i.e. deep time paleoclimatology).
  3. The response of forest communities and plant taxa during global warm climate intervals in pre-Quaternary time.

I use plant fossils, such as fossilised leaves, to reconstruct environments of the geological past, especially the Eocene Epoch (55 to 37 million years ago), when natural events had produced a period of global warming – climate change in the geological past is referred to as ‘deep time’ climate change. I am particularly interested to understand how forest ecosystems responded to past periods of climate change.

In the early ‘90s while based at the University of Saskatchewan, I worked on the world famous fossil forests of the Canadian High Arctic, on Axel Heiberg and Ellesmere Islands. These fossil forests show that during the warm Eocene times that the poles were ice-free and that biologically rich and highly productive forests composed of dawn redwoods, pines, cedars, ginkgo, birch, elms, oaks, and many other trees grew near the north pole. Crocodiles and other tropical animals were also found in the Arctic at this time, and throughout western Canada.

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