Rennie Lab

We were happy to host our Winnipeg fish crew members a few weeks back at Lakehead! Had some great meetings and a lovely dinner out at the Tomlin. Next year maybe Lauren and I will make the trek to Winnipeg….

It only took like 9 years but we finally managed to do the CEELab Classic again! Despite what started out to be lovely and sunny weather that quickly turned into a snowstorm, we managed to pull off our second CEELab Classic shinny game! Fun was had by all, and the wind made being on one…

We had a good mix of productive writing focused on individual projects, collaborative work on a lab paper and enough down time to eat some great food, take in some olympics and do some snowshoeing and hiking outside. Big thanks to IISD ELA for hosting us. Look forward to doing this again! Making our way…

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…

Mushet, G.R., MacLeod, H.A., Rennie, M.D., Paterson, M.J., Higgins, S.N., and Blanchfield, P.J. 2025. Drivers of the fish community size spectrum and its utility as an indicator of fish productivity: Insights from three decades of monitoring data from a small boreal lake. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 82: 1–14. https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjfas-2024-0027  

  Guzzo, M., Blanchfield, P.J., MacLeod, H.A. and Rennie, M.D. 2025. Declining adult body size and contracted life history in an unexploited boreal Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) population over a period of warming. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 82: 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2024-0393    

Chapina, R.J., O’Malley, B.P., Bowen, K., Viljanen, M.L.M., Bess, Z.A., Yule, D.L., Nejstgaard, J.C., Berger, S.A., Rennie, M.D., Paterson, M.J., Pothoven, S.A., Watkins, J., Rudstam, L.G., Chandra, S. and Stockwell, J.D. 2025. Lake depth and light conditions alter Mysis vertical distributions. Journal of Great Lakes Research 51(6): 102684. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0380133025001789

Navarroli, G., Howell, B.E., Klein, A.W.R., Morrissette, O., Rennie, M.D. and Hasler, C.T. 2025. Application of a population status model on several recreational lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) fisheries in Manitoba, Canada. Published early on-line in Environmental Biology of Fishes, 25 March 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-025-01689-5