HHL WRAPPED 2022
Coming out of our annual hibernation, we’ve rested and reflected on all of the amazing achievements of the Healthy Headwaters Lab over the year 2022. Our numbers are only part of the story, and we also look forward to sharing our experiences and lessons learned thus far in future posts.
Seasons of HHL
The beginning of the New calendar Year marks moments of reflection and renewed intentions. At HHL we reflected on the various seasons of HHL, and what each season means to us. Winter, Spring, Summer, & Fall, all symbolize different focus and goals for our research. When it comes to HHL’s seasons of research, everyone has a favourite season, what’s yours?
Pluralism in Research: HHL
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.
Streams of the Anthropocene
Shayenna Nolan compares three biomonitoring techniques to detect human impact in Windsor-Essex streams.
ICYMI: HHL Was at CCFFR
Back on February 25 and 26, the Healthy Headwaters Lab hosted joint sessions with the Centre for Indigenous Fisheries at the Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research.
The theme of this year’s conference was: Aquatic Systems Stewardship: Crisis, Change, and Cooperation. The two sessions were titled Indigenous Management Systems: Leadership, Collaboration, and Agency organized by Andrea Reid and Aquatic Habitat Restoration & Partnerships organized by Catherine Febria.
Resistance and Resilience in Stream Restoration – A Primer
Dr. Isabelle Barrett explores an important theme in the Healthy Headwaters Lab: ecosystem restoration and the pursuit of research to test and develop theory while also mobilizing insights into practice.
HHL is Headed to JASM 2022!
The Healthy Headwaters Lab is headed to JASM 2022! Check out all our sessions and posters.
IAGLR 2021: BRIDGING KNOWLEDGES, SEVEN GENERATIONS, AND LAND TO LAKE
The Healthy Headwaters Lab has a full lineup of presentations at this year’s IAGLR conference. Register for #IAGLR2021 and we’ll see you there! (see our abstracts below)
Meet ERCA 2020 Youth Conservation Award recipient Emily Browne!
HHL undergraduate thesis student Emily Browne is the recipient of the ERCA 2020 Youth Conservation Award! Emily is a kind, passionate, and dedicated individual that we are lucky to have on our team.
Research during the COVID-19 pandemic (Our 2020 Year in Review)
Research and partnership during a global pandemic came with some challenges, but we made it through with incredible teamwork.
ICYMI: Our FAB night out!
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.
Behind the Scenes: Agricultural Research
Taking you behind the scenes of some of our agricultural fieldwork this summer as we manually drilled over 100 boreholes to collect soil data.
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.
Teamwork got us through a covid farm fieldwork season
Covid may have thrown a spanner in Lauren Weller’s plans but we were able to pivot, and when research resumed so did fieldwork! It was a race to finish before the crops came off but the HHL team sprang into action to help and we got it done.
Undergrads Start Research
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.
One of the most useful tools in Stream Ecology
In the Healthy Headwaters Lab, we study freshwater ecosystems with the goals of restoration and rehabilitation in mind. One of the most valuable and widely used methods to study streams is biomonitoring using benthic invertebrates.
Dr. Febria joins the IPBES Nexus assessment
The IPBES is THE global organization focused on advancing stewardship of the planet through strengthened government and science linkages. Dr. Febria is a new nominated expert – one of 40 globally – to help define the latest Nexus assessment.