HHL News & Updates

When it comes to biomonitoring, there are three orders of insects that are especially useful – Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera, or EPT.

Research and partnership during a global pandemic came with some challenges, but we made it through with incredible teamwork.

What a year! The lab is officially going to hit pause until the new year for a much-needed time of unwind, reflection and rest.  

Listen to recordings of fascinating lightning talks about ongoing work both by the Healthy Headwaters team members and our partners. Topics ranged from carbon complexity in farm fields to COVID masks, from algal blooms in the Thames River to plant-microbe relationships in root systems.

In our very first(!) podcast experience, we discuss the lab’s “radical approach” to building a research team, and how our core values transform into actions through funding opportunities and trust-based partnerships with Indigenous communities in the Great Lakes.

Taking you behind the scenes of some of our agricultural fieldwork this summer as we manually drilled over 100 boreholes to collect soil data.

“There is no hierarchy because we are equally powerful and important to each other’s existence.”-Mariah Alexander/ Baashkooniingad Kwe

The Healthy Headwaters Lab team members are from waters around that world that have come together and now call the Great Lakes home.

We're grateful to have gotten a mussel field season at all this year with COVID-19 and so now it's time to trust the process as we explore and interpret our data.