The art gallery isn’t where you’d expect to find an ecologist, but that’s where our very own Dante Bresolin spent three months doing a residency. Using art workshops, a guided art hike & a solo exhibition, Dante got people thinking about their relationship with land. Check out our blog for more.
Some of the most common questions we get in the Healthy Headwaters Lab (HHL) are: How do we do what we do? How do we effectively engage communities as part of our research? The impacts of our research are evident in the strength of the relationships we’ve fostered and the diverse ways in which our research translates to positive societal impacts. To help tell that story, we recently published a paper sharing insights into HHL’s formative years. This paper contributes to a growing area of academic scholarship: Pluralism in Environmental Governance.
Happy International Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV)! On March 31st, we dedicate the day to celebrating trans folk and their contributions. While other holidays like Trans Day of Remembrance memorialize the lives lost to transphobia, this day was started by Rachel Crandall-Crocker in 2009 to celebrate trans joy and visibility.
The Healthy Headwaters Lab won an ERCA 2022 Conservation Education Award for their multi-disciplinary students who, under the leadership of Dr. Catherine Febria, work closely with decision makers to restore freshwater ecosystems to full health and vitality. They focus on a variety of headwater ecosystems such as drains, wetlands, streams and interfaces between surface and groundwater, and align the values of science, society and holistic restoration through partnerships, research, Indigenous collaborations and role in the local community.
Pride honours the LGBTQ2I+ community, who has made great contributions to science and society as a whole.
Since HHL launched in 2019, we committed to continually growing beyond Indigenous land acknowledgements, and made a commitment to centre Indigenous knowledge in all we do.
With heavy hearts, we are reflecting on the tragedies suffered by Indigenous children across the country. At this time we will point towards resources for those beginning to learn, but personally we are grieving.
Lives, land, and generations lost.
Successful freshwater restoration has to be inclusive of people, and so we acknowledge the many diverse ways of knowing our world.
This year, we’ve decided to extend our celebration into a week – World Water Week – to engage in discussions about freshwater and its value to us. We will be connecting with our global community of freshwater scientists and taking initiative locally.
ATTN: students in fisheries, aquatic science, ecology and conservation — you’ll want to take note of this. FishCAST is a NEW co-curricular training program designed by Canada’s leading experts to train graduate students and provide them with the connections and hands-on experience necessary for lasting career success.
