Our Drone Crew, Emilie Isasa and Gregory Millar, with the help of Andrea and Charlize, conducted a drone calibration flight at the Turkey Point deciduous site. The weather was in perfect condition—sunny and warm, feeling like summer already!
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Congratulations to the Ensminger lab members who presented their research at CSB Research Day on May 3, 2024, in UofT’s Hart House in downtown Toronto ! Well done to Bridget Murphy for her presentation, to Olivia Di Biase, Anchalya Balasubramaniam, Noelle Perkins and Sylvain Colomer for their poster presentations. And thank you to Emilie Isasa for judging
CSB Research Day 2024 ! Read More »
It’s an incredibly thrilling day for our two ROP undergraduate students as they present the results of their research projects that they started back in September 2023! Grace Cheng showcased her poster titled “Examining drought resistance in white spruce genotypes using leaf hydraulic and wood anatomy traits,” while Christina De Melo presented her poster titled
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This week, we kicked off our field activities for the FastPheno project with our first flight of the year! This week, we conducted a drone flight and installed control points at the Turkey Point and Pickering sites. Remarkably, temperatures soared to 20 degrees Celsius, a surprising deviation from typical March weather in Canada compared to
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The teams from both Toronto and Quebec convened in person at the University of Laval in Quebec City for a significant meeting. Together, the teams engaged in crucial project discussions and laid out plans for the upcoming year, fostering collaboration and progress.
FastPheno Gathers in Quebec City for its first Meeting of the year ! Read More »
Hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful holiday season and is feeling refreshed as we kick off the new year together. Cheers to an excellent year ahead, filled with scientific discoveries and remarkable achievements! Let’s make every experiment count and push the boundaries of knowledge in our field !
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This last week was the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists’ Annual Conference at the University of Laval in Quebec City! Our lab members Qi, Emilie, Bridget, Siyu, Anchalya and Noelle went and all presented talks and posters in various sessions throughout the week. Bridget got an honourable mention for the President’s Award in recognition of
Great Success at CSPB ! Read More »
The Centre for Global Change Science (CGCS) awards the Graduate Student Award on a competitive basis to graduate students at the University of Toronto for projects that broaden the students’ research experience in a manner not possible within the scope of their current degree program. Congrats to Siyu on this excellent achievement ! With this
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This week marked our first venture this year into the field for the FastPheno project ! Collection of drone data as well as ground truthing hyperspectral data, fluorescence were done, as well as needle tissue sampled for pigment analysis. There was still snow on the ground but that didn’t stop us from completing measurements. This
First Field Campaign of the year! Read More »
UTM was hit with a big snow storm today, which reminded us here at the lab that it is still winter, despite the higher than normal temperatures this year! The environmental signals used by trees to sense seasonality and trigger dormancy and development of cold acclimation, are the decrease in temperature and the length of
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