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FERN: Streams of the Anthropocene
Everyone at HHL loves tea, especially watershed tea! The ingredients in this tea are not your typical tea leaves, but instead a series of dissolved components of the many aquatic environments in flows through. HHL researcher Shayenna Nolan is investigating DOM as a medium for measuring stream health, and recently published her undergraduate thesis in the esteemed journal Ecological Indicators.
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Streams of the Anthropocene
Shayenna Nolan compares three biomonitoring techniques to detect human impact in Windsor-Essex streams.
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HHL is Headed to JASM 2022!
The Healthy Headwaters Lab is headed to JASM 2022! Check out all our sessions and posters.
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What is a watershed?
A watershed is a spatial area where all water and precipation that falls within its bounds eventually join together in a single lake or river.
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Ways of Knowing: The Diversity of Knowledge
Successful freshwater restoration has to be inclusive of people, and so we acknowledge the many diverse ways of knowing our world.
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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)
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FishCAST: A radical new training program for early career researchers
ATTN: students in fisheries, aquatic science, ecology and conservation — you’ll want to take note of this. FishCAST is a NEW co-curricular training program designed by Canada’s leading experts to train graduate students and provide them with the connections and hands-on experience necessary for lasting career success.
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