Rooney Lab MSc. Student, Courtney Robichaud, co-authored a blog post for the Great Lakes Phragmites Collaborative on her thesis work. She repeated a study from a decade ago and found markedly greater changes to the bird community in response to Phragmites invasion that was reported previously. Read more about it here.
February 12, to celebrate Darwin Day, the Biology Department at the University of Waterloo hosted a bonspiel. The Rooney Lab was represented by both veterans and novices to the sport, but all brought their enthusiasm for evolution by natural selection to the ice!
Congratulations Rooney Lab member Adam Kraft, who won the naming competition for GRADventure, the University of Waterloo's hub for professional development resources. GRADventure launched Jan 27th. For access to all manner of workshops, resources, and special event listings targeting graduate students preparing for the workplace, check it out here.
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.
Read more here
Canada Research Chair in Physical Hydrology and professor at the University of Calgary Dr. Masaki Hayashi will be visiting the Rooney Lab on October 27th and will be presenting as part of the Department of Biology 2015 Seminar Series his talk titled Eco-hydrology of prairie wetlands and management implications: synthesis of a 50 year study.
Congratulations to Dr. Rooney who will join the board of IAGLR (International Association for Great Lakes Research). Dr. Rooney is honoured to serve the IAGLR membership and hopes to see you all in Guelph next June.
Congratulations today to Dr. Rooney, who received a University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award. The award was created by the university to reward faculty members for outstanding contributions to scholarship and teaching.
Our latest paper, published in the journal Water Research, is available for free download for a limited time. The paper combines a biophysical comparison of natural wetlands and storm water management facilities with a comparison of their perceived social values. Check it out here: http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1QSYs9pi-1tjb
Dr. Rooney just returned from presenting at a Cumulative Environmental Management Association Integrated Task Group info session on monitoring biodiversity as part of oil sands mine reclamation. While there, she had a request for the handbook and companion video that she co-authored, which describes in detail how to apply the multi-metric assessment tools she and colleagues at the University of Alberta designed for reclaimed wetland monitoring and evaluation.
Dr. Rooney is in Missoula, Montana this week for the North American Congress for Conservation Biology, where she will be presenting an invited talk as part of the Symposium titled More than Keystone: Newest Insights on Emerging Broadscale Threats from Oil Sands Development in Canada and the US,organized by Maureen Ryan. Dr.