Taking the lead as an early career researcher
HHL leader Dr. Catherine Febria reconnected with New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge, a federal science program in Aotearoa New Zealand, and accepted the invitation to join their prestigious International Science Advisory Panel for a 5 year position.
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.
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.
Why are EPT taxa so important?
When it comes to biomonitoring, there are three orders of insects that are especially useful – Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera, or EPT.
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.
Holiday Pause & Baa Maa Pii from HHL
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.
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.
What allyship looks like in action
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.
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.
I am one with everything
“There is no hierarchy because we are equally powerful and important to each other’s existence.”-Mariah Alexander/ Baashkooniingad Kwe
The Five Freshwater Seas
The Healthy Headwaters Lab team members are from waters around that world that have come together and now call the Great Lakes home.
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.
The time of the JEDI movement has arrived
To overcome the challenges we face today, we need to draw from a diversity of strengths, insights and lived experiences. Our institutions need to be re-evaluated and a commitment to Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion need to be top priorities moving forward.
Undergrads Start Research
Invert Tuesdays: Bloodworms
These non-biting midges, sometimes called bloodworms, can be an eye-catching red or even pink colour. They have a high hemoglobin-like substance that allows them to survive in low oxygen environments.
Invert Tuesdays: Tipulidae
This leathery skinned animal may look like it’s staring at you, but the head is actually on the other end!
Water is life: HHL shares Indigenous perspectives with the International Joint Commission
Invert Tuesdays 004: A Simuliidae Moustache you MUST see!
Today we will take a look at a type of Dipteran (the True Flies) that some of us may know quite well. You are probably more familiar with their adult life stage, but in their larvae stage they have a bizarre moustache-like structure!
Invert Tuesdays meets Paris Museum of Modern Art
Members of the order Trichoptera, the caddisflies, recently collaborated with French artist Hubert Duprat and created beautiful cases made from gold and opalescent gems that will be displayed in the Paris Museum of Modern Art in an exhibition this September.