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A naturalist and his moquitoes
This is another in the “meet the lab” series – here’s a feature by MSc student Chris Cloutier: I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t fascinated by the world of creepy crawly things. For as long as I...
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Taxonomist envy and the importance of names
Imagine: seeking, finding, watching, sampling, measuring, comparing, analyzing, imaging and… naming. These goodies are all part of taxonomy. As Wikipedia defines it, taxonomy “is the science of...
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Beetles from the North
I’m super-excited to announce new research from the lab, published yesterday with lead author Dr. Crystal Ernst. Crystal’s paper focused on taxonomic and functional diversity of beetles across 12 sites...
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Unanswered (Arachnological) research questions
Scientific research produces more questions than answers (at least in my experience!), and a neat paper, project or field season often leaves us with a suite of new directions to take a research...
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Expanding boundaries and increasing diversity by teaching with technology
“As teachers, technology encourages us to be more creative, more influential, and more mindful of the implicit and explicit impacts our words have on students, and to explore new ways to make our...
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Landscape structure, insect herbivory, and ecosystem services
I’m pleased to announce a new publication to come out of the lab, with lead author Dorothy Maguire and co-authored by Elena Bennett and Patrick James. In this work, Dorothy ponders and writes about the...
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Ecology from geology
I recently asked a geologist* to come to speak to my field biology class. The course is about the “St Lawrence Lowlands“, and throughout the term we visit farms, forests, lakes and streams, and we do...
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Monitoring northern biodiversity: picking the right trap for collecting...
Ecological monitoring is an important endeavour as we seek to understand the effects of environmental change on biodiversity. We need to benchmark the status of our fauna, and check-in on that fauna on...
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Insect herbivory in fragmented forests: it’s complicated
I’m excited to announce a recent paper to come out of the lab, by former PhD student Dorothy Maguire, and with Dr. Elena Bennett. In this work, we studied the amount of insect herbivory in forest...
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Pyramids of species richness
This post is written by PhD student Shaun Turney, and highlights a recent publication from the lab. Two years ago, I was finishing my MSc and considering whether I’d like to do a PhD, and if so, with...
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