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Aberdeen Academic`s Voluntary Service Honoured by SCI

January 08, 2002

Dr Jennifer Mordue, reader at the Department of Zoology, University of Aberdeen, and Chair of SCI Scotland is to be awarded the 2001 Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Lampitt Medal. The presentation will take place at a dinner held in her honour at SCI International Headquarters, London, on Thursday 10 January 2002.

The Lampitt Medal is awarded to SCI Members who have contributed continual outstanding service to the Society and commemorates past SCI world president Leslie Herbert Lampitt (1887-1957). Mr David Green, SCI Chairman of Council and former ICI and Hoechst director, will also be honoured with a Lampitt medal at the event.

An international expert on environmentally sound initiatives in pest management, Dr Mordue has a particular interest in the problem of sea lice infestation of farmed salmon stocks, a problem that costs the UK salmon farming industry GB£30 million each year. Research to be published later this year in the SCI journal Pest Management Science, shows that Dr Mordue and her team have identified the chemical smell that attracts lice to salmon, that once applied should provide an environmentally sound method of pest control.

Through her participation in the SCI Crop Protection Group, Dr Mordue headed the international SCI meeting `Salmon farming: towards an Integrated Pest Management strategy for Sea Lice` held in Aberdeen during June 2001, bringing together industry, science, environmental protection agencies, and fishermen to address the pest issues facing the salmon farming industry. She has also recently addressed a meeting of the SCI Republic of Ireland Section in Galway.

As well as her contributions to SCI`s specialist subject structure, Jenny Mordue was instrumental in the relaunch of SCI Scotland in 2000. Now Chair, Jenny and the SCI Scotland committee have instigated meetings covering subjects as diverse as the role of canals in the Scottish Chemical industry, to the commercial opportunities available in the biotechnology industry. With a regular presence at Scottish parliament events, SCI Scotland also presides over an historic honours programme. Byron Grote, chief executive of BP Chemicals, delivered the Tennant Memorial Lecture at Aberdeen in October 2001.

Alongside her research work and SCI involvement, Dr Mordue is a Member of the Royal Entomological Society, a referee for international journals, a conference organiser, and has had more than fifty papers published in peer-reviewed journals. SCI is proud to award Dr Mordue the 2001 SCI Lampitt Medal.

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