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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

  • Welcome new students for 2020-2021

    We have a great crop of students that joined the lab this year! New MSc students include Amber Fedus joined us from Queen’s University, and will be working up data from a whole-ecosystem macrophyte removal experiment; Danni Gartshore is looking at the impacts of invasive spiny water flea on early growth rates of fishes; Mark […]

  • Great achievements by students

    Some major awards by students in the lab worth recognizing in 2020. All our PhD students really shone this year; Haley MacLeod was awarded a Garfield Weston grant, Alex Ross received an NSERC PGS-D award, and Ryan Grow received an OGS award. Tyler Ripku received a MITACS accelerate award, and both our undergraduate students last summer […]

  • 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!

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