Read the latest news from the BeeHIVE Cluster.
January 6, 2020
Solving world-class geochemistry at nUBC
Check out this Nu Instruments case study about how honey is being analyzed geochemically on Nu Instruments mass spectrometers at UBC. Dr. Dominique Weis is interviewed in the story. Released January 5, 2020.
November 12, 2019
BeeHIVE's YouTube channel goes live!
The BeeHIVE cluster has launched its own YouTube channel. Check out our first three videos on our channel, or at our Videos page.
August 22, 2019
Honey and Wild Salmon as Tracers of Industrial Metals in the Environment
Press release from the Goldschmidt Conference, Barcelona, Spain — Cluster members Weis and Smith and UBC-EOAS post-doctoral fellow Li combined analyses from honey and salmon to show how lead from natural and industrial sources gets distributed in the environment.
July 26, 2019
Mite Fight
Cluster members Leonard Foster and Amro Zayed are mentioned in this Science story about the research being developed to fight against the honey bee parasite Varroa destructor.
July 25, 2019
A B.C. Solution to taking the Sting out of Honey Fraud
Cluster member and honey producer Peter Awram talks to the CBC about technology used to detect global honey fraud and ways that consumers can do a quick test for adulterated honey at the supermarket.