Environmental sciences Professor Jack Trevors has been elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Founded in 1990, the organization focuses on three core areas: developing knowledge, disseminating scientific information and implementing major multinational projects across academic disciplines and national borders. Its more than 1,200 members are researchers, philosophers and artists from Europe, Asia and North America, including 25 Nobel Prize winners.

Trevors, who is also an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo, joined U of G in 1982.  His research has contributed to an understanding of the survival and activities of bacteria in the environment, which has significant implications for understanding bacterial activities in the biosphere. This work has provided new knowledge and applications of biochemical and molecular methods in the study of environmental microbiology, with an emphasis on understanding bacterial survival/activities under less than optimal environmental conditions.