Healthy Headwaters Lab

🎓 CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF ‘26! 🎉

🙌🏼 We couldn’t be more proud of our HHL friends & fam who walked the stage, marking a very special moment for their careers in science & in life last week.

⛰️ So proud of our HHL thesis students Avery Ng Alexia dunia who came as 1st and 2nd yrs, and chose to stay multiple years, through many projects and collaborations, learning and growing and making the most out of every opportunity. You make us proud!

🫶🏼 enjoy this moment, grads 🤩

💧 YES IT WAS!

🙌🏼 Miigwech Nia:wen Merci Thank You Salamat for an incredible week at IAGLR-SCAS in Treaty 1 Territory / Winnipeg.

🫶🏼 So grateful for the opportunity to connect our work, our science and partnerships in/around rivers and ecosystem restoration to this global stage.

🌟 Congrats to our first-time early career students/staff/youth attendees who presented, participated and made new connections, local and global. So proud of you all!

🛶 Rivers are indeed connectors!! Grateful to see the mainstreaming of land-based, multidisciplinary, Indigenous-led & collaborative sessions in conferences spaces! Thank you for the collaboration .francis

✌🏼 See you next year | Baa maa pii

📣 Last day of IAGLE-SCAS26 and the hits keep on coming! Our student researchers Sarika Sharma and Alexia Macri are presenting in the Invasive Species and Land-Water Linkages sessions, respectively. Check it out!!

📍Sarika: Room 17 @ 9:40am
📍Alexia: Room 12 @ 11:20am

✌🏼See you there !!

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🌊 FishCAST is an NSERC CREATE training program that centred JEDI+ / DEIJ+ principles, partnerships and networking as crucial parts of fisheries and aquatic science careers. It also happens to be women-led (Director Tina Semeniuk & Assoc Director .febria )

🌟Come hear about new research from the voices of trainees themselves in a talk by FishCAST Program Coordinator (& graduate student) Kendra Thompson-Kumar TODAY @ IAGLR-SCAS

📍Room 11 @ 8am

📣 Don’t miss today’s talks by Dunia Roba, Lauren Damphousse & Larisa Renaud at today’s IAGLR-SCAS sessions on long-term datasets and species at risk!

📍 Dunia in Room 6 @ 8:20am
📍Lauren & Larisa in Room 10 @ 9:40am

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🙌🏼 Congrats to our student researchers Jess Robson and Larisa Renaud on presenting their work at IAGLR-SCAS26

💫 ICYMI Posters are still up for a few more days. Check them out in the Poster Hall!

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🛶Join us today at IAGLR-SCAS special session on Rivers!

📍Room 13 starting at 1:40pm!

💧 We are here at !! Come find us in Winnipeg this week !! Lots happening spanning the diversity of students and projects - we are excited to share and connect!

✌🏼See you there!

🎥 JUST RELEASED! The video recording of ‘An Evening with Dr. David Suzuki’ is now available on YouTube (link in Profile)

🌎 Whether you were there in person or watching online, the message is clear: there is no Planet B

🌱 “Make your commitment to a place then fight for that place. And if enough of us do our bit within that local place then maybe that’ll add up to something pretty big.” - Dr. David Suzuki, April 27 at UWindsor🌳

🍓 Chi-Miigwech Merci Thank you for connecting with us and this event. Share some love by supporting the UWindsor Indigenous Guardians Endowment Fund (link in Profile)

🌟 Teamwork makes the dreamwork. Miigwech .uwindsor for an all-team commitment to connecting this event to as many people, partners, schools and rightsholding First Nations.

💧 is less than a month away!

🛶Join us for a new session and offerings all about Rivers!

🌱 Tues PM interactive session on the rights & stories of River science and collaborations - meet folks!

🔍 Wed PM Urban river bioblitz and photovoice community of practice - learn stuff! Register here: https://linktr.ee/healthyheadwaterslab

🎥 Wed evening film screening of “I am the River and the River is me” - a story from Aotearoa-NZ’s Whanganui River and the collaborative journey to legal personhood status - journey w us! Register here: https://linktr.ee/healthyheadwaterslab

💫 We look forward to inspiring and building connections through a community of practice to support river caretaking and science! See you in Winnipeg ✌🏼

teamwork .febria .francis

📣 Please share widely! Links in profile to register!