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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.

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!

Congratulations to PhD Candidate, Émilie Montreuil Strub, for successfully completing her comprehensive exam this afternoon!

Congratulations to PhD Candidate, Gab Izma, for successfully completing their comprehensive exam this morning!

Congratulations to PhD Candidate, Jersey Fontz, for successfully completing her comprehensive exam this morning!

A comment by Dr. Rebecca Rooney and Dr. Jose Luis Rodriguez-Gil has been published in Ecological Applications.

"As a community of authors, reviewers, and editors in ecotoxicological research, we need to do better in enforcing standards of transparency and reproducibility, and we must guard against overreach when offering opinions on regulatory decisions."

Note we are no longer accepting applications at this time.

The Waterloo Wetland Lab is looking to hire Summer Wetland Technicians for the upcoming field season!

If you are interested, please send your resume and cover letter describing why you are a good fit for the position to rebecca.rooney@uwaterloo.ca. Questions may also be directed to the same email address.

Congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Rooney for winning the Invasive Species Centre's 2024 Leadership Award!

Bravo to all of the incredible nominees who have showcased exceptional leadership in tackling invasive species in Canada. Your contributions are invaluable!

A special thank you to the Invasive Species Centre for serving as a beacon of knowledge sharing and collaboration that strengthens our community and builds our capacity.

Waterloo Wetland Lab members Gab Izma and Dr. Rebecca Rooney, along with Dr. Melanie Raby and Dr. Ryan Prosser, have collaborated to co-author a newly-published paper on the fates of pesticides in stormwater ponds. The paper, titled "Urban-use pesticides in stormwater ponds and their accumulation in biofilms", is published in Science of the Total Environment, and is available via open access online.

Waterloo Wetland Lab PhD Student Josh Pickering, along with Michael S.W. Bradstreet and Dr. Ryan Norris, has co-authored a newly-published monograph on the long-term dynamics between white-tailed deer populations and vegetation communities in Long Point, Ontario. The monograph, titled "Less is more: vegetation changes coincide with white-tailed deer suppression over thirty years", is published in Wildlife Monographs, and is available online.