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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.
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Perspectives: Heading Home
For our first #HHLPerspectives piece, meet Roland Eveleens, HHL’s inaugural Masters student from Aotearoa New Zealand. Roland moved to Canada in 2019 before the pandemic took hold of the world.
Freshwater Mussel Research: Shifting with the seasons
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.
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Scientific conferences go virtual
What does science look like in a COVID-19 world? Collaboration and research meetings are both a big part of the scientific research process and the partnership driven research the Healthy Headwaters Lab does.