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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

  • CEELab represents at first annual SES Trivia night!

    Big kudos to the CEELab grad students for coming in second place at the inaugural Faculty of Science and Environmental Studies Trivia night! With $100 in Tim’s gift cards, everyone should be well caffeinated for the coming days. Taking both first and second place, Biology dominated! Can’t wait till next year!! Trivia domination. Left to […]

  • 2025 updates

    Some great goings on in 2025 so far! Excited to welcome several new faces to the lab, including Jubayer, Eric, Monica, Jordyn, Samantha and Sam. Kennedy changes roles in the lab and joins us this August as a MITACS Postdoctoral Fellow. Lots of great progress with Natalya getting her fish tagged on the Pays Plat […]

  • Lab website update for 2024

    With the start of a new year, the website has gotten some badly-needed updating. Please peruse through for a current listing of students, lab photos and publications through to the end of 2023. Looking forward to making time to keep things a bit more up to date moving forward. Also, be sure to keep an […]

  • A new start through COVID

    Long time, no post but wanted to put some big kudos out to the lab for successfully navigating field work this past year, and to welcome several new students to the lab; Ben Wood, Wyatt Beach, Kelvi Toskovich, Tristan Morrison and Adam Poulin (click on their names to learn more about their research). Also, congrats […]

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