Increasing temperatures are expected to cause secondary salinisation in freshwater systems, such as the zooplankton community of Churchill, Manitoba. Salinity is a key environmental factor structuring these communities, thus, increasing salinity should cause these communities to change; however, previous research has shown that they are resilient. In order to ascertain how changing salinity will affect these communities I conducted toxicity tests for five crustacean species, individually and in a community setting. I sampled several pools throughout the season to ascertain the salinity level at which those same species were most abundant in the field. While the species had significantly different field distributions along the salinity gradient, the salinity levels associated with maximum densities did not correlate with the lab tolerances. However, lab tolerances were outside the field salinity range, thus providing an unexpected result. Local interactions appear to be very important in determining final community composition along this salinity gradient. / Northern Scientific Training Program, Northern Research Fund

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The northern Churchill Province is an intensely explored, yet poorly researched target area for diamonds. I examined the mantle sources and residence history of diamonds from Aviat, located on the Melville Peninsula. Aviat diamonds display a δ13C range extending far below the average mantle value of -5‰ indicating eclogitic sources must be present. Crustal protoliths, carrying the organic matter implied by strongly 13C depleted diamond compositions, likely were supplied via subduction. The main population of diamonds around -5‰ may be either eclogitic or peridotitic. The CL patterns and variation of δ13C values within diamonds indicate that at least two diamond growth events, interrupted by periods of resorption, occurred at Aviat. Nitrogen and δ13C are decoupled indicating that multiple fluid sources contributed to diamond formation at Aviat. Mantle residence temperatures for most Aviat diamonds range from ~1050-1150⁰C, indicating a range of source depths.

The exegesis and accompanying playscript 3606202 is concerned with how the structural framework of a play might be manipulated to help deliver a writer's response to global events. The exegesis looks at examples of writers who have responded to global events over the last several decades and examines as a case study the structure of Caryl Churchill's play Far Away. The writer then applies a similar structural blueprint to the writing of his play 3606202 and reflects on the outcomes such a structure achieved. As part of this reflection, the exegesis explores how the writer's desire to respond to global events led him to consider the impacts of structure on the sub-textual articulation of themes within a playscript. The exegesis concludes by detailing the findings of an experiment conducted at the reading of his play and its professional presentation within the Wharf2Loud season at the Sydney Theatre Company.

Psychobiography is a qualitative approach to exploring and understanding the life story of an individual through the lens of psychological theory. The application of theory is typically conducted on the finished lives of well-known or enigmatic people. This study explores and describes the psychological development across the lifespan of Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, by applying the Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler. Winston Churchill voted the greatest Briton of the twentieth century, was an author, painter, adventure, soldier, politician and Prime Minister that led the United Kingdom during World War Two. Extensive data has been examined in this work to ensure an accurate description of Winston Churchill‘s life. Alexander‘s model of identifying salient themes was used to analyse the data within a conceptual framework derived from the theory. Churchill‘s difficult childhood motivated him to succeed, his passion for the nation of Britain and his dislike of the Nazi regime meant that Churchill was always abreast with current affairs, anticipating every possible scenario of attack. When the time came to fight the Nazi‘s Churchill was ready to die for his country. The research findings highlight Churchill‘s ability to rise above his childhood stigmas and surpass all expectations and so cementing his name into the history of a country he loved and a democratic world he hoped for. Alfred Adler‘s Individual Psychology proposes that an individual‘s potential weaknesses can be used as a means to strive and achieve greatness within their sphere of influence.

Caryl Churchill’s play, Love and Information, presents a shift in focus from unstable personal and political identity towards unstable logical identity, a philosophical concept that takes identity out of the realm of identity politics.. As a new play Love and Information has understandably been subject to very little scholarly analysis. This thesis situates the play within Churchill’s corpus in order to consider how the depersonalized identities of this play fit within the broader scope of Churchill’s work. Anchored in Elin Diamond’s study of gender identity in Churchill’s corpus, this thesis will further incorporate theories of logical identity as well as theories of language in order to define what I argue is Churchill’s shift towards logical identity. Through a study of both the text of Love and Information and the 2014 New York première, I conclude that Love and Information represents a shift in focus while Churchill maintains her playwriting methodology.

The Teheran Conference, November 27- December 1, 1943, set the stage for the present-day Cold War. In that conference Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain, played a forceful, but unsuccessful, role.