News

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

The Rooney Lab is recruiting a PhD student to study the bioconcentration of pesticides in aquatic biofilms and their risk to freshwater food webs!

The Rooney Lab is recruiting an MSc student to work on aquatic invasive species management and resotration in Fairy Lake, Southampton, Ontario. 

Rooney Lab is seeking motivated Biology students seeking BIOL499 Senior Honour’s project opportunities.  

Terms: Spring and Fall 2020 (May-December 2020)

Supervisor: Dr. Rebecca Rooney

Dr. Rooney worked with Dr. David Schindler to co-author this opinion piece in the Edmonton Journal, calling on the government to work with Indigenous partners to meet our conservation targets and protect biodiversity in Canada.  Read more here.

Interested in joining the productive and collaborative faculty at the University of Waterloo?  We are hiring three tenure-track positions this year in Biology alone.  One is in terrestrial ecology, another in aquatic ecology, and a third in environmental virology! Check out the ads for Biology Department Faculty positions here:g.co/kgs/MxYRNE  

There are also three faculty positions open at the U Waterloo Water Institute, advertised here. 

We're excited to share a review of one of our recent papers, led by former Robinson Lab graduate Ian Evans.  This profile in the Water Institute's second issue gives a great overview of the study and our conclusions.  Check it out here.  Congratulations Ian!

We are pleased to announce the publication of our latest paper in Freshwater Biology!  

Rooney Lab is proud to have published a new note in the Journal of Freshwater Ecology titled "Wetland microhabitats support distinct communities of aquatic macroinvertebrates."  What makes us so proud of this one is that it is based on the Undergraduate Hns. thesis work of Jaimie Bortolotti who collaborated with former MSc. student Jennifer Gleason to turn her thesis into a manuscript.  Jaimie is now an MSc. student at Queens - congratulations Jaimie and good luck with that NSERC application! 

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.