{"id":93185,"date":"2024-07-24T10:06:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T14:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=93185"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:40:15","slug":"freshwater-bounty","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/freshwater-bounty\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshwater Bounty: The Hidden Richness of Habitat Close to Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Freshwater Bounty: The Hidden Richness of Habitat Close to Home\n <\/h1>\n \n <\/header>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/path>\n <\/path>\n <\/svg>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

On a scorching mid-July afternoon, Carleton University biology<\/a> professor Dalal Hanna<\/a> and master\u2019s student Felix Chan roll up their pants and step into the shallow, clear flow of Shield\u2019s Creek, a narrow tree-shrouded stream cutting through a park near the southern fringe of Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hanna reaches into the water and overturns a large rock, brushing mud of the bottom with her gloved hands. A few feet away, Chan lowers a kick net with a fine mesh into the creek, collecting some of the sediment that Hanna has released. She repeats the process, unearthing rocks, bricks and bottles from the substrate, until there\u2019s a softball-sized clump of muck in the net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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