SNOLAB
Blaire Flynn is a seasoned professional in education and outreach, currently serving as the Senior Education and Outreach Officer at SNOLAB since January 2016, where responsibilities include managing the department and enhancing access to STEM opportunities. Previous roles at SNOLAB involved communicating scientific research to educators and the community. Additional experience includes serving as a Field Biology Research Technician for the City of Greater Sudbury, conducting environmental surveys, and working as an Arts and Science Educator, developing workshops in collaboration with various educational organizations. Earlier career phases included internships focused on northern ecosystems and phytoremediation research at Cambrian College. Blaire Flynn holds an MSc in Science Communication from Laurentian University and advanced degrees in Environmental Monitoring and Biology from Cambrian College and Cape Breton University, respectively.
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SNOLAB
SNOLAB is an underground science laboratory specializing in neutrino and dark matter physics. Located 2 km below the surface in the Vale Creighton Mine located near Sudbury Ontario Canada, SNOLAB is an expansion of the existing facilities constructed for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) solar neutrino experiment. SNOLAB follows on the important achievements in neutrino physics achieved by SNO and other underground physics measurements. The primary scientific emphasis at SNOLAB will be on astroparticle physics with the principal topics being: Low Energy Solar Neutrinos Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Cosmic Dark Matter Searches Supernova Neutrino Searches These are areas of research where the experiments require great depths to reduce cosmogenic backgrounds. They also require extreme levels of cleanliness to reduce environmental radiological backgrounds to the levels necessary for these very sensitive measurements. SNOLAB achieves these goals by being located 2 km underground and by having the entire laboratory constructed as a single large clean room (class 2000). While particle astrophysics is the principle focus for SNOLAB, there is a growing interest in other scientific fields to exploit deep underground laboratories. In particular, there has been interest expressed in the fields of Seismology and Geophysics interested in precision, long term measurements at depth and in the field of Biology where there is a growing interest in deep under ground life.