Welcome to Courtenay Lab!
Welcome to the research group website of Professor Simon Courtenay in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability (SERS).
We are affiliated with the Water Institute here at the University of Waterloo, the Canadian Rivers Institute, and the Ocean Canada Partnership. Our students are engaged in multi-, inter-, and trans- disciplinary research in the areas of biology, ecology, governance, ecotoxicology, monitoring and management within and relating to aquatic systems.
This website provides information on the people in our research group, current projects as well as ongoing collaborations.
News
Dr. Elaine Ho-Tassone starts a new chapter
On July 14, 2021, Elaine became the first female in her family to earn a PhD. Since then she has completed a community-based project in partnership with Garden River First Nation as part of her Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology at Algoma University.
Congrats Christina and welcome Cassia Jean Watts!
For those of you who have not yet had the pleasure of meeting Christina Pater, she is the heartbeat of the van den Heuvel lab at UPEI.
New funding to develop Sediment MEQ Guidelines in Southern Gulf
Congrats Dr. André St-Hilaire (INRS-ETE) on securing funding from Fisheries and Oceans Canada for The development of Marine Environmental Quality guidelines related to sediments in the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada) estuarine and coastal areas.