Welcome to the Waterloo Wetland Laboratory
The focus of our lab is on aquatic ecology, restoration ecology, and landscape ecology. We look at the relationships between plants, invertebrates, and birds with their abiotic environment; both in terms of ecosystem properties and processes. In particular, we focus on the response of these biotic communities and their environmental correlates to human disturbance.
We are recruiting talented, bright, hard-working, self-motivated students with solid communication skills. If this describes you and you are interested in the type of research questions we address, please look at our Biology Department program requirements and contact Dr. Rooney: rrooney(at)uwaterloo.ca
The Waterloo Wetland Laboratory members acknowledge that we live and work on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes ten kilometres on each side of the Grand River.
News
Article published on Dr. Rooney's contributions to microplastic research
The Water Institute has published a new article on Dr. Rooney's contributions to microplastic research, highlighting the risks that microplastics pose to the Laurentian Great Lakes.
While evidence of concern is quickly mounting, there is still a lot of uncertainty. We cannot yet say how much pollution is too much, or what monitoring thresholds and alerts should be. We also have not collectively agreed on the best monitoring approach, explained Rooney, “but the efforts of the Microplastics Work Group took us a big step closer to this for the Great Lakes.”
The article, titled "Rebecca Rooney contributes to binational initiative to standardize microplastics research," is available on The Water Institute's website.
Claire successfully completes comprehensive exam
Congratulations to PhD Candidate, Claire Schon, for successfully completing her comprehensive exam this afternoon!
That's a total of four successful comprehensive exams by Waterloo Wetland Lab members in the past two and a half months. We are so proud!
Émilie successfully completes comprehensive exam
Congratulations to PhD Candidate, Émilie Montreuil Strub, for successfully completing her comprehensive exam this afternoon!