Biomonitoring2

The Environment Canada Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) Team and the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph, co-hosted the 3nd biennial CABIN Science Forum on December 2-3, 2014 in Guelph, Ontario. Previous science forums were held in Vancouver,… Read More

May, 2014 saw the first ever Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Portland, Oregon. Over 3,500 members of the Society for Freshwater Science, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, Phycological Society of America, and Society of Freshwater… Read More

The Biomonitoring 2.0 team published their latest findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA. The Gibson et al. study continues the teams’ research into timely, cost-effective approaches to identifying the contents of species-rich mixed… Read More

The Hajibabaei Lab was well represented at the Ontario Ecology Evolution and Ethology Colloquium (OE3C) held May 8-10th, 2014 at the University of Guelph. Students, post docs, and faculty from universities all over the province (as well as… Read More

August 2013 was an exciting month for the Biomonitoring 2.0 project. Team members once again traveled to Fort Smith, Northwest Territories and Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. In addition to sampling within Wood Buffalo National Park, new field sampling sites… Read More

A new methodology article from the Hajibabaei lab, entitled “Assessing biodiversity of a freshwater benthic macroinvertebrate community through non-destructive environmental barcoding of DNA from preservative ethanol” has just been published in BMC Ecology, and is available from the… Read More

The Ontario Genomics Institute recently released their Annual Report. Within its pages are detailed discussions of some of the many projects which they fund. One of the projects chosen to be highlighted this year is our own Biomonitoring… Read More

The Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) is an aquatic biological monitoring program for assessing the health of freshwater ecosystems in Canada. CABIN is based on the network of networks approach that promotes inter-agency collaboration and data-sharing to achieve… Read More

The Biomonitoring 2.0 project was well-represented at two recent scientific conferences held across Canada. Project Manager and Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Joel Gibson, presented original research data and a general background on the project at the Annual Meeting of… Read More

Dr. Mehrdad Hajibabaei will be presenting a public lecture at 11:15am on Wednesday, November 28th, at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa. The public lecture is part of “Genomics: The Power and the Promise”, a Gairdner… Read More

Dr. Mehrdad Hajibabaei is an invited speaker at the Canadian Science Policy Conference being held in Calgary from Nov. 5-7th. His talk will be entitled “From Technologies to Real-World Tools: A Genomics Perspective”. He is speaking as part… Read More

A recent episode of the long-running CBC documentary series ‘The Nature of Things’, hosted by David Suzuki, featured Wood Buffalo National Park. Wildlife filmmaker, Jeff Turner, traveled to WBNP to capture the unique interaction of wolves and buffalo… Read More