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Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Beth Nyboer and Steve Cooke Conduct New Study Finding the Future of Recreational Fishing is at Risk Due to Climate Change

Globally, freshwater recreational fishing is at risk due to climate change and a new study finds that not enough is being done to save it. Fishing plays an important sociocultural, ecological and economic role in ecosystems and communities around the world, and the industry is rapidly growing and changing. Like all species, recreational fish... More

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Biology’s Ian Pulsifer Named 2021 Carleton University Teaching Award Recipient

The Excellence in Learning Support Award has gone to Ian Pulsifer (Department of Biology) for his outstanding contribution to the student learning experience. He has developed various teaching and grading tools that have been especially beneficial in assisting his colleagues and students transition to online learning.... More

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Prof. Mark Forbes Explores Parasitism and Its Evolutionary Consequences

Parasitism occurs when one species — the parasite — benefits from resources it takes from another, usually larger, host species to the detriment of host individuals. Why some host individuals carry more parasites than others has intrigued biologists. These levels of parasitism are proxies for the amount of resources taken by parasites, which... More

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Dr. Joe Bennett Discusses Salmon Study Balances Needs of First Nation and Grizzly Bears

“This is an excellent case study for an issue that will probably arise more and more,” said Joseph Bennett, a biologist at Carleton University in Ottawa who was not involved in the work but whose lab specializes in decisions related to conservation and biodiversity. “Fisheries stocks have collapsed in other places as well,” Dr.... More

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

New Project, “Stopping the Spread of the Mountain Pine Beetle”, co-led by Carleton Biology Prof. Catherine Cullingham

A small insect is causing big problems for Canada’s forestry industry. The mountain pine beetle (MPB) is about the size of a grain of rice and it’s common to find more than 100 of them on a mass-attacked tree. Foresters first noted the beetle’s devastating impact on British Columbia’s lodgepole pine forests in the... More

Friday, August 27, 2021

Frosted Flies: Heath MacMillan’s Research Explores Genes that Lead to Cell Death in Insects

Carleton University biology professor Heath MacMillan has spent most of his career trying to understand what causes insects to live or die at low temperatures. More specifically, he has been researching the thermal limits of fruit flies ever since he was an undergraduate biology student at Western University. “I got excited at how little was... More

Friday, July 9, 2021

Mike Runtz on Noisy, Showy Cardinals Reproducing More Thanks to Your Birdseed

Boredom-busting backyard bird feeders have boosted the already growing cardinal population in Ottawa during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to local birders. Local bird counts show the population of northern cardinals — or in unimaginative Latin nomenclature, Cardinalis cardinalis — was already rising before the pandemic hit. Then... More

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Carleton Researchers, Including Lenore Fahrig, Receive Growing Support for Work Benefitting all Canadians

36 Carleton researchers received NSERC Discovery Grants, Discovery Accelerator Supplements, Discovery Launch Supplements, Research Tools and Instruments Grants and Subatomic Physics Discovery Grants worth a total of $6.53 million, including Lenore Fahrig for her project that looks at biodiversity and extinction. “Species extinctions are... More

Monday, July 5, 2021

Carleton biology lab renamed Lacks Lab after Henrietta Lacks

CBC Radio Segment - Ottawa Morning with Robyn Bresnahan Nadeea Rahim and Oreoluwa Idowu are Carleton fourth-year students who petitioned the school to rename its biology lab after a Black woman named Henrietta Lacks -- whose cells were kept without her knowledge, and used in numerous important experiments for decades. Listen to segment... More

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Naturalist Michael Runtz on Recent Bears in the ‘Burbs and What You Should Know!

Michael Runtz spends a lot of time in Algonquin Park, where you would expect to see a bear. The naturalist, author, and Carleton University professor spends less time in the suburbs where a bear visited, napped in a tree, and had a Barrhaven (or Bear-haven!) neighbourhood fixated this week. “I have been exploring the... More

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Carleton Biology Lab Renamed and Bursary Established In Honour of Henrietta Lacks

In 1951, a 31-year-old Black mother of five named Henrietta Lacks was in medical distress and went to Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she was diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer. Despite treatment, she passed away eight months later. Unbeknownst to Lacks or her family, cells retrieved during a biopsy were sent to a tissue... More

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Provost Scholar Award Recipients Announced

Emine Topcu Can is a neuroscience and biology student who is described as a rising star with a breadth of accomplishments and a profound commitment to diverse interests. Emine independently developed a software tool for visualizing and identifying protein target sites in Prof. Kyle Biggar’s lab, which led to a first author publication in... More

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