CEE LAB
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Rennie Lab
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Rennie Lab

Welcome to the homepage of the Rennie Lab at Lakehead University. Our lab is the Community Ecology and Energetics Lab, where we focus on the rates and pathways of energy in aquatic ecosystems and organisms.
The Team
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The Team

Our lab is led by Dr. Michael D. Rennie, Associate Professor at Lakehead University and currently has 12 members. We have a diverse group of researchers in the lab and strive to maintain a research group that reflects the diversity that we see in society.
What we do
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What we do

Our research is broadly focused on investigating how the structure of ecosystems affect rates and pathways of energy flow, and how processes at the individual level (behaviour, metabolism) scale to the population and ecosystem level.
Where we do it
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Where we do it

Aquatic ecosystems, spanning throughout Canada. A large part of our research is conducted at the IISD-Experimental Lakes Area. Other research sites include Lake Superior and the Great Lakes generally, Lake Winnipeg and it's watershed, and Lake Simcoe.

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News

  • So many things!

    Lots has happened in the lab during the spring of 2019. Graydon McKee and Marissa Wegher completed their MSc theses; Graydon joined the Kidd lab at McMaster as a technician, and Marissa joined the OMNRF. Ty Colvin was awarded an NSERC PGS-M award and will be starting with Paul Snelgrove at MUN in the fall, […]

  • Digging out…

    After three major dumps of snow, it was time to move the lab vehicles so that the grounds crew could plow our section of parking lot. Also, good excuse to scrape the 2-ish feet of snow off the trucks that have accumulated in the past month 😳 . Thanks to everyone for helping dig out!

  • Cool new toy for the CEElab

    Well, we finally got our new Trident ROV to help us with doing sculpin and crayfish counts as part of our Mysis recolonization experiment (SHRRIMP). Our main pilot for the project this year has been Ty Colvin,  superstar undergraduate student at Lakehead University. Collecting the data meant driving out for 2 weekends in a row […]

  • Mysis in motion!

    Our ecosystem restoration project focused on the recolonization of Mysis is officially underway. We successfully managed to capture 10,000 Mysis from Lake 224 and add them to Lake 223. If you want to read more about the experiment, you can check it out here. Here’s a good twitter thread on how that all went down last […]

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