HHL is going to IAGLR 2024

The International Association for Great Lakes Research is holding its 67th annual conference from May 20th – 24th in Windsor, Ontario. Centering around a theme of Shared Lakes: One Water, One Health, hundreds of researchers will come together to share their discoveries in the fields of environmental sciences, public health, community engagement, science communication, and much more! Healthy Headwaters Lab Director Dr. Catherine Febria is one of the program co-chairs for IAGLR 2024.

By |2024-05-21T11:02:00+00:00May 21, 2024|Our Team, Our Work, Stream Ecology 101|0 Comments
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Building a Kinder and More Just Research System

Meet Dr. Aisling Rayne! Aisling (she/her) is Pākehā (European-descended Settler in Aotearoa New Zealand) and an early career researcher based at the Cawthron Institute in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her work broadly explores how environmental knowledge can support nurturing relationships between people and place. An important part of her journey has involved the Kindness in Science initiative - a collective focused on leading a culture shift in the science community.

By |2024-04-02T21:02:36+00:00April 2, 2024|Our Community, Our Work|0 Comments
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HHL Loves Benthic Invertebrates!

Much of the research in HHL explores the community of bottom-dwelling animals known as benthic macroinvertebrates, which often includes mussels. As a community, benthic invertebrates can holistically capture the health status of a freshwater ecosystem based on who is there, and where we find them. Let’s take a closer look at one of member of the community, the Hepta-genius Heptageniidae!

By |2024-03-28T13:40:09+00:00March 28, 2024|Our Work|0 Comments
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FERN: Streams of the Anthropocene 

Everyone at HHL loves tea, especially watershed tea! The ingredients in this tea are not your typical tea leaves, but instead a series of dissolved components of the many aquatic environments in flows through. HHL researcher Shayenna Nolan is investigating DOM as a medium for measuring stream health, and recently published her undergraduate thesis in the esteemed journal Ecological Indicators.

By |2024-03-23T18:35:21+00:00March 23, 2024|FERN, Our Work|0 Comments
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FERN: The Story of Two Branches: Unionid Freshwater Mussels

An important member of the invertebrate community - Unionid freshwater mussels - are often excluded in regular monitoring. Undergraduate thesis researchers Dante Bresolin (2021) and Nolan Lachance (2023) embarked on a mission to investigate the relationships between mussel communities of the Sydenham River.

By |2024-03-20T14:40:06+00:00March 20, 2024|FERN, Our Work|0 Comments
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FERN: What’s the Story With Phragmites?

Invasive, non-native, exotic – these are all names attributed to plants and animals that have come from other places and have overwhelmed local ecosystems with their overwhelming abundance and impact on local species. Postdoctoral scholar Dr. Courtney Robichaud addressed one aspect of the relationship with Phragmites through an ecosystem-scale experiment on Phragmites removal during their PhD at the University of Waterloo.

By |2024-03-18T14:30:52+00:00March 18, 2024|FERN, Our Work|0 Comments
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Ecological Research “In a Good Way”

Ecological research ‘in a good way’ means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands

by Andrea Reid, Deb McGregor, Ally Menzies, Lauren Eckert, Catherine Febria & Jesse Popp

To aid scientists in conducting research ‘in a good way’, we offer key insights and guidance that are rooted in our own scientific training and communities of practice.

By |2024-03-11T21:46:18+00:00March 11, 2024|Our Community, Our Work|0 Comments
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