What a fantastic surprise!

It was announced today that Karen is receiving the 2017 International Environment Award from Recipharm in Stockholm.  This is an award to recognize "best environmental practice or innovation within the pharmacy and health care industries or academia" and was first awarded in 2008.  Karen will be presented the award in Stockholm later this year at a workshop on research needs for pharmaceuticals in the environment.  

The award is a big honour for her but also speaks volumes about the great team of collaborators involved in this research, the generous funding  received from many different organizations, her supportive family, and the impact of the science done at the IISD Experimental Lakes Area, where the whole lake experiment was done from 1999-2010 to understand how the estrogen in the birth control pill affects aquatic ecosystems.