President’s Message, September 2025
CRPA President Tara Hargreaves reflects on her community’s resilience, celebrates the success of this year’s conference, and shares what’s ahead for professional growth and collaboration.
CRPA President Tara Hargreaves reflects on her community’s resilience, celebrates the success of this year’s conference, and shares what’s ahead for professional growth and collaboration.
Get to know CRPA’s new president, Tara Hargreaves, from her career in radiation safety to her passion for mentorship and membership growth. Tara shares her vision for the organization’s future, her leadership journey, her goals, and what excites her most about guiding the association forward.
The CRPA board of directors reflects on a milestone year that featured a new website, policy and governance updates, additional funding, representation at international events, and the launch of a young professionals’ award. Having celebrated its 45th anniversary, CRPA is looking ahead with fresh leadership.
CRPA president Corie Houldsworth looks back at CRPA’s past and at the history of radiation protection in Canada and beyond. She is also looking forward to what the future holds. She talks about how this ties in with this year’s conference theme: “Forging the Future.”
In this instalment of the Health Physics (HP) Corner, Jeff is checking the activity estimate for monazite ore, which nominally contains 10 MBq of Th-232. If the ambient dose equivalent gamma constant for Th-232 is essentially zero, why is the measurement at 10 cm more than 1,000 times as high as you might expect?
Scott Nichelson, from Texas, is CRPA’s self-proclaimed southernmost member. He is also a member of the Health Physics Society (HPS) and regularly provides updates on HPS events that might be of interest to CRPA Bulletin readers.
Each year, three finalists are selected in the Anthony J. MacKay Student Paper Contest to present their work at the CRPA conference. The presentations are judged and the winner receives a trophy and $250. In this issue of the Bulletin, Alicia interviews this year’s finalists!