{"id":50757,"date":"2018-04-27T15:45:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T19:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=50757"},"modified":"2020-03-05T10:05:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T15:05:29","slug":"cutting-edge-ccovi-research-attracts-international-interns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/04\/cutting-edge-ccovi-research-attracts-international-interns\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting-edge CCOVI research attracts international interns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock\u2019s global reputation for world-class wine research is attracting international researchers to its Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most recently, CCOVI welcomed four summer internship students from top academic institutions in France.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among them is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.u-bordeaux.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University of Bordeaux<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> master\u2019s student Yuchan Wang, who was drawn to Brock by the leading-edge Icewine research being conducted in the lab of CCOVI Director Debbie Inglis. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the goal of continuing her studies at the PhD level and returning to teach in China, Wang said learning the intricacies of producing this delicacy was attractive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIcewine is very popular in China,\u201d she said. \u201cBrock was the place I could learn more about the production and making of it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joining Wang for the summer internships are fourth-year food-science and engineering students Matthieu Bodin, Laura Poli and No\u00eblle Bourdin from<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agrosupdijon.fr\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AgroSup Dijon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the French national institute for food and agronomic sciences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With an interest in working in viticulture, Bodin, who is working with CCOVI scientist Belinda Kemp, was looking for experience in a cool climate wine region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWith climate change, northern countries are the vineyards of the future,\u201d Bodin said. \u201cI hope to apply the learnings and techniques from here when I go home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While at Brock, he is working on CCOVI\u2019s leaf removal trials, looking into the impact of leaf removal on tannins in both still and sparkling Pinot Noir and Cabernet Franc wine as part of CCOVI\u2019s prominent sparkling wine research program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poli and Bourdin are both hoping to work in oenology after graduation. They are using UAVs and remote sensing to map vineyard variability in vines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The work can be taken back and applied to vineyards in France, Poli said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cResearchers in Dijon are using similar technology,\u201d she said. \u201cPrecision agriculture could be a great help for growers.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock\u2019s global reputation for world-class wine research is attracting international researchers to its Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":50758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,41,1,4,5],"tags":[61,855,6561,6562,6563,3325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50757"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64465,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50757\/revisions\/64465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}