Streams of the Anthropocene

Our Work
Written By Shayenna Nolan

Streams of the Anthropocene is a mini-documentary following the undergraduate thesis research (2021) of Shayenna Nolan as she conducts biological monitoring in Windsor-Essex, Ontario. Manuscript coming soon details the effectiveness of cotton strip decomposition, benthic macroinvertebrates, and dissolved organic matter quality on detecting human impacts in streams.

CREDITS:

Produced and filmed by:
Shayenna Nolan

Assisted by:
Alyssa Frazao

Supervised by:
Dr. Catherine Febria

Field crew:
Dante Bresolin, Ryan Graham, Lauren Damphousse, Emily Browne, Roland Eveleens, Lauren Weller, Katrina Keeshig, Kasey Brown and Brianna Curtis

Special thanks to:
The City of Windsor
Karen Cedar
Brian Market
Mike Simon

Funding was provided by a University of Windsor start-up grant (to CMF), a Research Chair in Freshwater Restoration Ecology grant from NSERC Canada (to CMF), and an Undergraduate Student Research Award from NSERC Canada (to SN).

Shayenna Nolan

Shayenna is the Director of Communications for the Healthy Headwaters Lab as well as a PhD student. She is currently researching carbon and microbes in settler and Indigenous landscapes across the Great Lakes Basin.

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