The Ensminger Lab was proud to see our ROP students present their research at Summer Research Day 2025. A special congratulations to Aimun Malik, who received an Honourable Mention for her oral presentation. We are very proud of all three students for their hard work and excellent contributions this summer!
From Climate Drivers to LiDAR: Ensminger Lab ROP Projects at Summer Research Day 2025 Read More »
We had the chance to reconnect in person for our annual FastPheno meeting, this time hosted at Université Laval in Québec City, Canada. It was a fantastic opportunity to meet face-to-face, exchange ideas, and share the latest advances across the project. The team discussed progress on assessing adaptive traits, exploring contrasting environments, improving data processing pipelines,
From December 9-13, 2024, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting took place in Washington, D.C., bringing together over 25,000 Earth and space scientists to explore this year’s theme, “What’s Next for Science.” Representing the Ensminger Lab, Siyu and Bridget presented their research on white spruce (Picea glauca) responses to environmental changes. Siyu’s study, “Disentangling
Siyu and Bridget Present Their Research at AGU 2024 in Washington, D.C. Read More »
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
Bridget wins the Forest Ecophysiology Oral Presentation Award at AGU 2022! Read More »
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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Flying a drone in Canada requires an exam, flight training and final certification. Siyu, Erik and Ingo just completed their certification, they are now drone pilots! The photograph shows our instructor Harish Jadeja with Erik and Siyu during the flight training at the Koffler Scientific Reserve.
Drone pilot training for Ensmingerlab Read More »
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
Maia Dall’Acqua joins the lab as an NSERC USRA student for the summer Read More »
When all courses where moved to online classes, we decided to let students do at last a couple of the Bio312 Plant Physiology experiments from home
Bio312 ‘Lab-in-a-bag’ lets students study plants from home Read More »
Several new grad student positions avaialble. Contact Ingo Ensminger directly, use grad student 2021 in the subject line.
Accepting grad students for fall 2021 Read More »
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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