Email: msvu.ca
Phone: 457-6520
Office: EV389
Research Interests: Statistics
Some Recent Publications:
Blum, I, Subba Rao, DV, Pan, Y, Swaminathan, S, and Adams, NG. (2005) Development of statistical models for the prediction of the neurotoxin domoic acid levels in the pennate diatom Pseudonitschia pungens f. multiseries utilizing data from cultures and natural blooms, in: D.V. Subba Rao, Ed., Algal Cultures Analogues of Blooms, and Applications, Science Publishers Inc.
MacEwan, M, Glanville, NT, Taylor, J, and Blum, I. Teachers as role-models for nutrition behaviour in children. Poster presented at the Dietitians of Canada Annual Conference, Toronto, 2005.
Mann, LL & Blum, IE. (2004). Entrepreneurship of dietetic program graduates. Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research 65(2004) 166-173.
Gordon, J & Blum, I, (2004). Shifting Programs or Undercutting Equity? A Preliminary Study Using Three University Academic Calendars, in: M. Reimer, Ed. Inside Corporate U: Women in the Academy Speak Out, Sumach Press, 2004
Gordon, J & Blum, IE (2004) Gender and the Restructured University. Paper presented at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education, CACWE Workshop, Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities, Winnipeg, MB, June 2004.
Mann, LL & Blum, IE (2002). Entrepreneurship and recent dietetic graduates. Paper presented at the 2002 Dietitians of Canada Annual Conference.
Cook, NH, Blum, IE., and Wells, PG, (1999) Quality of Bay of Fundy Sediments: Further Insights Using the Microtox® Solid Phase Assay. In Ollerhead, J, Hicklin, PW, Wells, PG, and Ramsey, K, Eds., (1999) Understanding Change in the Bay of Fundy Ecosystem. Proceedings of the 3rd Bay of Fundy Science Workshop, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, April 22-24, 1999. (Abstract appears in: Environment Canada, Atlantic Region Occasional Report No. 12, Environment Canada, Sackville, NB, 1999)
Cook, N.H., Blum, I. E., and Wells, P.G., Quality of Bay of Fundy Sediments: Further Insights Using the Microtox® Solid Phase Assay. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (North America) November 21-25, 1999. Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Evans, J, Cronin, V, and Blum IE (2000) Are there any bi-directional influences between phonological sensitivity and beginning reading? Paper presented at the 108th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, August 4-8, 2000.
Cronin, V, Evans, J, and Blum, IE (2000) Word association and development of reading. Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Stockholm, Sweden, July 22-24, 2000.
Blum, I, Pan, Y., Subba Rao, D. V., and Swaminathan, S. (1998) A multilinear model for predicting domoic acid levels in the pennate diatom pseudo-nitzschia multiseries, Paper presented at the 6th Canadian Workshop on Harmful Marine Algae, held in St. Andrew's, NB, May 27-29, 1998. (Abstract appeared in Martin, JL & Haya, K., Proceedings of the Sixths Canadian Workshop on Harmful Marine Algae, Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No 2261, February 1999).