Faculty and researchers from a variety of disciplines will showcase their research, projects and initiatives.
International Research Mobility Experience (IRME)
The webinar will provide an overview of the CALAREO IRME Program, a brief
presentation about Queretaro, Mexico, and then presentations from some of the host
researchers in Mexico who are offering the internships!
Graduate students on the Lakehead Orillia campus and Lakehead-Georgian Barrie campus are invited to share their thesis, research project, or other research findings during Research and Innovation Week.
The R&I Week Graduate Poster Competition was developed to showcase current graduate students’ contributions to research and scholarship at Lakehead University. The top poster will win a prize.
Registration Information
To be eligible for the competition, please complete the registration form by the end of the day Friday, Feb. 9.
Our changing climate is creating challenges but also opportunities for food and fibre production systems. Soils are the foundation for these systems and provide numerous ecosystem services that contribute to our well-being and the well-being of our environment. Many of these services are linked to and controlled by soil organic matter stores, which holds the largest terrestrial pool of organic carbon on the Earth. How we manage that pool has significant implications for concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere but also how our ecosystems respond to stressors, like a changing climate. The critical role that soils play is often overlooked but has been a recent focus of the Canadian Government’s Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, who have an ongoing study on the state of soil health in Canada. Join me to explore my program’s ongoing work to improve land management outcomes for organic carbon stores and soil health, with a focus on northern soils.
Dr. Amanda Diochon is an associate professor in the Department of Geology and SES Faculty-Based Research Chair in Biogeochemical Cycling of C in Northern Soils. Her research program focuses on the effects of disturbances on the cycling of soil organic matter in forested and agricultural systems, and the impact of these disturbances on soil health. Amanda is the past-president of the Canadian Society of Soil Science and co-chair of the Soil Education Committee of the CSSS. She was also an editor on Digging Into Canadian Soils, the first open source Canadian soil textbook.
About the EventThis session will explore Indigenous land based methodologies as an evidence-based approach to planning, programming, policy making and advocacy for the health of Lands, Waters and Peoples and the roles and responsibilities of universities in regards to this work.
Speakers
Moderator: Lana Ray, PhD is an Anishinaabe scholar from Opwaaganasiniing (Red Rock Indian Band). She is a member of the Muskellunge Clan and an Associate Professor at Lakehead University and Lakehead University’s inaugural Indigenous Research Chair in Decolonial Futures.
Speaker: Tom Morriseau Borg is a knowledge keeper from Red Rock Indian Band. He possesses extensive knowledge about his Traditional territories as a trapper and general land-based practitioner. He is a member of Ontario certified Engineering Technicians and Technologist, and previously was the Environmental Monitoring for his First Nation. He has advised on archeological digs and hydro transmission line sites and he has represented Red Rock Indian Band on the Water Management Committee, the Lake Nipigon Advisory Committee and has been a member of Local Citizens Committee for Forestry planning and issues for over two decades among other things.
Speaker: Dr. Stéphane McLachlan, Professor, Clayton H Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources. Steph’s work with students and colleagues through the Environmental Conservation Lab at the University of Manitoba focuses on environmental justice and health, traditional foods, environmental monitoring, and Indigenous data and research sovereignty. It is all partnership-based and bridges Indigenous science with the natural and social sciences. This Indigenous-led work documents and challenges the disproportionate impacts of hydropower, mining, and other intensive resource extraction on these communities. Yet, it is also solutions-oriented and advocacy-based. In amplifying local voices and concerns with decision-makers and the public, it acts to increase public awareness and facilitate political change regarding these issues.
To register for this event, please click here.
The Bryophyte workshop is a student-led annual gathering of nature enthusiasts, students, and faculty members interested in learning more about these amazing little plants called Bryophytes. It includes research presentations and practical exercises, and everyone is welcome to take part.
Bryophytes are a large group of simple plant forms that never flower and do not have a specialized vascular system like trees, grasses, or shrubs. Instead, they have simpler ways to transport nutrients and water in their tissues and reproduce either by spores or by fragmentation. Because they do not have tough “veins” in their bodies they cannot grow tall and instead they cover the ground in low-lying patches or more continuous layers. While their appearance may be humble and often we unwittingly step on them during our nature walks, these plants are true champions of nature, with an incredible ability to transform our environment and climate. For instance, Sphagnum mosses cover large swaths of land in Canada’s boreal and subarctic regions where they remove enormous quantities of carbon dioxide from the air – a powerful greenhouse gas.
In the broadest sense, Bryophytes comprise three categories of plants: True Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts each with their unique biological make-up.
In Canada and across the world, nearly 40% of young people say they are hesitant to have children because of the climate crisis. In The Climate Baby Dilemma researcher and science communicator Britt Wray explores diverse perspectives on reproductive decision making in a climate altered world. Following the film, Lakehead University researchers will speak about their work investigating the emotional dimensions of climate change and climate justice, including reproductive decision making.
Panelists:
Dr. Ramzi Fawaz will explore how the animated feature film Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse (2018) and its 2023 sequel, Across the Spider-Verse, present the multiverse as a distinctly psychedelic figure for conceiving differences as an endless web of relations across multiple dimensions rather than rigidly formed identities barred from communion by structural inequality.
About the SpeakerDr. Ramzi Fawaz is a Romnes Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of two monographs, The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (2016) and Queer Forms (2022), both published by NYU Press. In 2016, The New Mutants won the ASAP Book Prize.
Webinar: Registration Required
Department of English / Department of Gender and Women's Studies
The library is pleased to host a webinar which will highlight the exciting research conducted by Lakehead University faculty members. Three of our distinguished faculty members and their co-writers/co-editors will be highlighting aspects of their research and published books. The library is proud to host Dr. Kristin Burnett & Dr. Travis Hay, Dr. Michael Stevenson & Dr. Asa McKercher, and Dr. Ann Kajander. This presentation is a glimpse into the extraordinary research and book publishing accomplished here at the university. To explore book titles published by LU faculty and staff, please see this discovery tool which illustrates the rich and diverse nature of their research. Additional information concerning the special collection of Lakehead University Author Monograph’s can be found here. All are welcome. For more information, please click here.
