An important member of the invertebrate community - Unionid freshwater mussels - are often excluded in regular monitoring. Undergraduate thesis researchers Andrea Bresolin (2021) and Nolan Lachance (2023) embarked on a mission to investigate the relationships between mussel communities of the Sydenham River.
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!
JOIN US: two graduate student positions (MSc and PhD) are being offered to explore and understand the success of freshwater mussel translocation projects in Ontario.
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.
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.
