Jorma Jyrkkanen Biography to 8 Nov 2018 jjyrkkanen76@outlook.com

 

Jorma Jyrkkanen Biography to 8 Nov 2018

Jorma Jyrkkanen
Biography

I am a naturalist and wildlife ecologist. I studied Zoology at UBC and Environmental Education at SFU and have a  permanent non-expiring Teaching Certificate. I also took a Certificate course in Journalism from Capilano College, GIS from OUC and a Course in Human Ecology from UBC. I gave my first lecture on Hawks Nests with Broken Eggs (DDT, DDE) in Winnipeg to the Manitoba Natural History Society as a 13 year old boy and have since had an great interest in birds and toxic chemicals. I also obtained my Journey Railway Carman Certificate from CNR and am a DOT certified Railway Passenger Train Inspector.

In university I worked jobs in Forest Seedling pathology, Poultry pathology,
hormone studies on Deer under Dr. Nordan with Nels West, Inventory of M&B
forest wildlife. In Squamish I set up a clinic and hired medical staff to conduct a medical assessment of Mercury in Blood Hair and Urine in Chloralkali Workers. This study prompted SFU to establish an Industrial Toxicology curriculum. I studied Bald Eagle Ecology during 1978-1981
and wrote a book about them, Biology and Ecology of Squamish River Wintering Bald Eagles. ISBN 978-1-926688-46-6.

Since I worked at BC F&W in habitat and was involved in clearing pesticide applications, a job which spiked my interest in chemical toxicology.
AT NWCC I developed courses for Forestry Technicians in Ethics and Land Use, Integrated Forest Management, Theory and Applications, and Forest Recreation. I discovered Agent Orange and related phenoxy herbicides were in use in BC and I produced a Review Report on the Toxicology of Phenoxy Herbicides. I codiscovered with Dr. David Monroe carcinogenic 1,4-dioxane in glyphosate herbicide. I later represented Nechako Environmental Coalition where I presented a review of Bleached Kraft Mill Mill Carcinogens and Mutagens in a Televised Public Forum in Prince George. I also did a statistical assessment of lung cancer incidence in Pulp Mill School Districts and compared to no mills and found a significant increase. I found the putative cause as Hydrogen sulfide which mutates and degrades the P53 DNA repair gene.

I participated in a televised presentation on Pesticide Carcinogens and Mutagens in the Peace River District for an Environmental Group and acted as Intervenor in the Pulp Mill Hearing in Alberta for Friends of the Athabaska at UA by presenting my report on Carcinogens and Mutagens in Effluent and Air Emissions in the Bleached Kraft Mills.

I have presented a lecture and slide show in Kelowna on Pulp Mill Carcinogens and Mutagens to OUC Biology students. Since then I have been interested in the development of understanding about cancers that are contractable and transmissable from pathogen infections. I have given a Public Seminar on Catching Cancer by power point presentation at the Public
library.

My focus over the years was to draw attention to the need to reduce
production and exposure to carcinogens and mutagens. This also put me in touch with epigenetics and its role in evolution and disease and early on I proposed online a need to evaluate environmental toxins for their epigenetic capability and this stimulated me to produce my primer for the International Epigenetic Conference. This has now begun in earnest I am glad to see and is providing pharmacological targets for therapies as well as has helped unlock the cancer cell suicide code inscribed on microRNA promising to be a magic bullet to stop all cancers very soon.

I also produced a General Theory of Universal Evolution which is available online and have presented it to Three Naturalist Groups and The Centre for Inquiry and I have been active in blogging on a wide range of issues from climate change to ecology to the need to connect science and policy and live in harmony with global ecosystems.

I am also online with scientific and social reform posts in Blogs, Twitter and Facebook and give talks to Museums, Local Groups, and Naturalists clubs on Birds and various subjects. My observation that our quarks, gluons and electrons are ancient universe assembled by evolution into a primate and are now pondering itself and evolution is the creator and we made god the gods in our own image is I think my most important conclusion.

I was also involved in implementation of the first clear cut guidelines in the Boreal Forest while working for MNR in Kenora, Ontario, Eagle Nest Tree guidelines and Grizzly bear Forest Management guidelines in BC. I was also a participant in establishing the Khutzeymateen Grizzly bear Ecological Preserve in NW BC and Munson Pond Thursday with the influential help of Prince Phillip. I have been an executive of the Squamish Estuary Nature Centre Committee, Save Howe Sound Society, Mercury Action Committee, Nechako Environmental Coalition, International Agent Orange Society, Central Okanagan Naturalists VP and Conservation Committee Chairman among others.  My hobbies are birding, boating, hiking, fishing, classical guitar and writing. I have 64,700 tweets on twitter and lost ten years of blog posts when geocities went off social media.

I believe that climate change is the most urgent issue facing life on earth and the greatest threat to life on earth is human ignorance, arrogance, and unwillingness to collaborate world-wide to solve this existential crisis.

November 8, 2018