Students/Lab members

Bridget wins the Forest Ecophysiology Oral Presentation Award at AGU 2022!

Congrats to Bridget on the award for her oral presentation at the 2022 AGU conference ! In her presentation, titled: “Coming in hot: increased carbon losses and reduced growth under warming in two genotypes of field-grown white spruce” ! Bridget presented her work on climate change impacts and the effect of warming in different white spruce […]

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Ensmingerlab

We are hiring one new postdoc and new grad students

1 Postdoc and PhD student positions studying structure and function of trees using drone-based remote sensing The Ensminger lab is soliciting applications for one postdoctoral position and fully funded grad student positions for the new year. The lab aims to develop and use the next generation high-throughput drone-based phenotyping platform and observe forest dynamics, identify

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Bridget wins CSPB/SCBV award for outstanding oral presentation

Congrats Bridget on the award for best oral presentation at the 2021 CSPB/SCBV Annual General Meeting! Bridget presented her work on climate change impacts and the effect of warming and drought on the timing of cold acclimation in different white spruce genotypes. In her talk she showed first results from her Ph.D. thesis project. This included

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Maia Dall'Acqua at KSR

Maia Dall’Acqua joins the lab as an NSERC USRA student for the summer

Welcome Maia! She will join the lab and support our activities on the SpruceUp project. Maia is a student at the University of Toronto, but she has already worked for the SpruceUp project during summer 2020 in the Cooke lab at the University of Alberta. We are excited to have her join the lab as

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Congratulations! Devin defends his MSc thesis

On Friday January 08, 2021 Devin defended his MSc thesis. The committee was impressed by the breadth of methods Devin had used and how he integrated the various types of data to evaluate how conifers manage water and temperature stress. Well done Devin!

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Congratulations Dr. Wong: Chris defends his PhD thesis

After his research seminar and final oral exam, Chris follows the UTM Biology tradition and adds his signature on one of the stem discs in the UTM Biology hallway. Well done! Chris successfully defended his PhD thesis, but due to the Covid 19 situation, this was a very different event. Just a few days before

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