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Are you a Canadian interested in a Masters degree in Wetland Ecology?

Dr. Rooney's lab is currently seeking applicants for 2 Domestic MSc. positions.

Facts:

MSc. students at the University of Waterloo receive a minimum of $20,600 per year to support their studies.

They gain teaching experience through teaching assistantships in their field.

They take only 3 courses, sparing time to focus on their thesis.

Dr. Rooney was invited to sit on the 10 member Science Advisory Committee (SAC) for the Experimental Lakes Area. This is a huge honor!

You can read more about the SAC here.

The Rooney Lab recently acquired a neat new tool: a GPS unit with sub-meter real time accuracy.  This device lets us map the distribution of different vegetation communities in the field.

Since 1993, Alberta's wetlands were governed under an Interim Wetland Policy.  Just today the province announced its new policy.

You can read about the new Alberta Wetland Policy here.

The cabinets for my new office have arrived and are waiting to be installed.

Heather Polan, a new MSc. student, starts this September.  Welcome to the lab Heather.

Just returned from sampling two dozen wetlands in Alberta.  We looked at the plant communities and soil properties of agriculturally impacted and restored wetlands in Parkland and Prairie Natural Regions.  It was especially neat to get to visit and sample at the Kinsella and Mattheis research ranches, operated by the University of Alberta.

Renovations on lab and office space commence. Exciting times, full of potential!

Our proposal to Alberta Innovates – Energy and Environment Solutions to develop indicators of wetland and ecohydrologic network integrity in light of a changing climate passed the expression of intent stage.  Our team is now busy constructing a full proposal – due February 15^th, 2013.

Our paper in CJFAS on the pan-Canadian distribution of toxic microcystins and their relationship to nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations was just recognized as that journal’s most read paper of 2012.