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A passionate and engaging teacher, Wendy Roy received the 2010 Inaugural Learning Communities Teaching Award, as voted on by students involved U of S Learning Aninto Associate Professor of English, research involves issues and culture Changes in oceaninchemistry could be Communities. turning certain fish easy prey for predators, so says her Douglas Chivers (biology) and of hisgender international researchin Canadian women’s fiction and travel writing. Her current research project, funded by a SSHRC Standard Research Grant, is called Popular team. According to Chivers, ocean acidity is expected to increase substantially by the turn of the century—due to higher levels of carbon dioxide—and Culture and Repetition in Early Twentieth-Century Canadian Women’s Sequel Fiction and examines the cultural and social implications this will cause some fish species, such as damselfish, to become disoriented and vulnerable. Experiments showed that fish raised in highly acidic 19 of novels by writers such as L.M. Montgomery (the2100, Anne of Green Gables books), Nellie (the raised Pearlie trilogy), and Mazo de la environments, similar to those expected by the year were up to nine times more likely to McClung die than those in Watson low and mid-level Photograph by Dave Stobbeacidity groups. Roche (the Jalna books).