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Kira Hoffman (she/her)
Career Profiles
Postdoctoral Researcher/Fire Ecologist
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The Mysterious World of Mycorrhizas
Backgrounders
Learn about the unique partnership between plants and fungi.
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Rob Arsenault
Career Profiles
Environmental Enforcement Officer
Daria Iskakova (she/her)
Career Profiles
Senior Laboratory Technologist
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Mairin Deith (she/her)
Career Profiles
Quantitative Ecologist
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Networks of Life
Backgrounders
Learn about the math behind networks and where we find networks in the natural and technological world.
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Coyotes: Coming to a town near you?
STEM Explained
Learn why coyotes are spreading in Canada and how this affects their relations with humans.
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Isha Berry
Career Profiles
Epidemiologist
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Let's Talk Great Lakes Resources
Backgrounders
Discover a set of resources designed to give you good background knowledge on all things Great Lakes!
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Diversity of Canada’s Marine Coastal Habitats
Backgrounders
Learn about the plants and animals in Canada’s marine coastal habitats, and what you can do to protect them.
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Tanya Savory
Cleaner Fish Coordinator
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Where Did Viruses Come From?
STEM Explained
Viruses are not living things - so where did they come from? Scientists have proposed three different hypotheses.
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Pollinators are Important!
STEM Explained
Insects and other animals that are pollinators of plants play an important role in ecosystems.
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The Dirt on Soil Conservation
STEM Explained
If I asked you to name a few things that all life on the planet couldn’t live without you could probably come up with some good answers, but I bet you’d never think to say dirt.
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Using Mussels to Monitor the Environment
STEM Explained
Mussels are a kind of invertebrate that filter food out of the water they live in. This makes them a great tool for monitoring environmental water quality and tracking bioaccumulation in aquatic food webs.