Happy International Women’s Day
Happy International Women’s Day 2023!
Each year we celebrate UN Holiday honouring and celebrating women! We proudly reflect on the incredible role that women play in our lives and in our science. One way we choose to celebrate is by gathering Dept of Integrative Biology and GLIER communities together to share a lunch and dialogue exchange on barriers and facilitators to science and full participation by all. It’s hard to believe that this will be our fifth year of holding an IWD event!
HHL Celebrates World Wildlife Day!
Today we celebrate World Wildlife Day! World Wildlife Day is a UN holiday that celebrates the world’s plants and animals! This year’s theme is “Partnerships for Wildlife Conservation” and this theme could not be more relevant to the work of our team and lab values. Our work – and the work of conservation and restoration - is simply not possible without help of partners!
HHL Celebrates Black History Month
HHL is proud to be made up of a diverse group of talented individuals! During the month of February special attention is taken to celebrate our valued Black members as well as other researchers within the research community! In this blog we highlight the outstanding contributions of Dr. Grite Nelson, HHL's African Woman in Science mentee, Mariah Alexander, HHL's Environmental Artist, and Dr. Peter Soroye, an early career researcher whose also a dear friend of HHL. All these individuals are great examples of black excellence in STEM. We invite you to read and learn more about their contributions to our team and the greater research community.
Shoutout to the Invertebaes!
Send this lovebug to your invertebae this Valentines day <3 Check out our blog post read about why HHL loves our inverteBAEs!
Indigenous Guardians Endowment Fund
This Valentine’s Day we’re sharing our love and appreciation for Ode’imin and our lab’s Indigenous Knowledge Circle. We are honoured to announce our next great initiative in support of Indigenous stewards and future generations. With support from the University of Windsor’s Advancement Office and Faculty of Science, the Healthy Headwaters Lab is proud to launch the Indigenous Guardians Endowment Fund, an investment-based approach to funding future projects and initiatives.
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.
It’s World Wetlands Day!
At HHL we believe that wetlands are the underdogs of ecosystems! Check out this blog to read more about the need for conservation efforts around wetlands, and the value HHL researchers see in wetlands!
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?
Call for Postdoc Applicants
The Healthy Headwaters Lab and Bioline Corporation have partnered to provide a unique training and leadership opportunity for a Postdoctoral Associate focusing on carbon characterization of humic substances. The successful candidate will work jointly between the University of Windsor and Bioline to explore and characterize the properties of humic and fulvic acids used for application in agricultural settings. Check out the full position description and details on application procedure.
Our Team: Roles Within HHL
Our team is made up of 24 passionate and hardworking members. HHL values teamwork and collaboration however, each member plays a different part, and fulfills different responsibilities. Within our team, members take on 8 different roles. Check out this post to read about the different roles within HHL.
Art as a tool for ecological restoration
The art gallery isn’t where you’d expect to find an ecologist, but that’s where our very own Dante Bresolin spent three months doing a residency. Using art workshops, a guided art hike & a solo exhibition, Dante got people thinking about their relationship with land. Check out our blog for more.
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.
HHL Is Recruiting! Undergraduate, Graduate and Staff Roles
The Healthy Headwaters Lab is recruiting for undergraduate, graduate, and staff positions!
HHL Celebrates Pride!
Diversity is necessary for progress, this is why we celebrate Pride.
HHL wishes you all a happy Pride month! We celebrate Pride to bring awareness to the discrimination that 2SLGBTQ+ face in their daily lives, especially in the STEM fields, but it is also to celebrate 2SLGBTQ+ individuals achievements in STEM and other fields.
Alfred Otieno Achieng Perspectives
Streams and rivers are globally threatened ecosystems because of increasing levels of exploitation and habitat degradation. Human activities, like urbanization and increased agricultural production, have caused changes in how a lotic system flows and redistributes water so the needs of each individual are no longer met. Dr. Alfred Achieng et al. study these effects in Lake Victoria.
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 x Ojibway Nature Centre: Our Ojibway Nature Centre Colouring Book
On April 22nd, 2022 HHL launched our Ojibway Nature Centre Colouring Book illustrated by Mariah Alexander, an Indigenous artist from Bkejwanong. This project was a partnership between the Ojibway Nature Centre and HHL’s Ode’imin circle; to re-introduce Indigenous knowledge and art to the Ojibway Nature Centre.
HHL is Headed to JASM 2022!
The Healthy Headwaters Lab is headed to JASM 2022! Check out all our sessions and posters.