Aquatic Food Web Ecology Lab, Dalhousie University

Research in the Aquatic Food Web Ecology Lab based at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, focuses on the consequences of biodiversity loss to the functioning and stability of aquatic food webs. All of our work is done in a food web context, which means that its not just the numbers of species that we are interested in, but also the structure of the food webs in which those species are embedded. Most of our work is done in aquatic microcosms, small container ecosystems in which we can assemble food webs and then subject them to various types of disturbance regimes . We also use mathematical models to run "in silico" experiments, otherwise known as computer simulations, to study problems that are too complex or just not possible to conduct in natural systems.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

New Honors Students 2009/2010

The lab is busting at the seams! Karla Armsworthy, Jennifer Malcolm, Vanessa Brisson, Kristen Vandenburg and Cashelle Farley are doing their honors work in the food web lab this year.

New Graduate Students



Two new graduate students have joined the food web lab this year. Marina Ritchie did her undergraduate work at Dal as is going to be working on the human microbiome project. Catherine Sutherland comes to us from U of C and will be working on something webby. Welcome to both!