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The Waterloo Wetland Lab is recruiting 2 co-op students for the Winter 2024 term.

Description: The technician will assist current graduate students in processing and analysing samples from wetlands, maintaining lab cleanliness and safety, and participating in the Waterloo Wetland Lab as a good citizen, which means joining lab meetings, abiding by our code of conduct, and supporting our collaborative lab culture.

Requirements:

Post-doc opportunity in conservation biology: species at risk (SAR) & invasive species in a Priority Place

Rooney Lab defends their title as door decorating champions in 2017 against fierce competition!

This year our design traced the environmental drivers (namely pumpkin spice pollution) leading to the increased expression of the XMAS gene and resulting increase in Christmas Morph relative abundance in the fir tree population.  As you'd expect, there were bottom-up effects on the squirrel population.  Very scientific.

Released today, Dr. Rooney and colleagues Dr. Robinson and Dr. Petrone from the University of Waterloo have a comment piece in Nature Climate Change detailing their framework for integrating reclamation planning for megaprojects at the landscape scale with future climate change projections. Reconciling reclamation plans with climate change is necessary to give us our best hope at achieving self-sustaining reclamation targets.

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