Sonia Nobrega carrying Kate Buckeridge's 40th birthday cake
Fieldwork picnic lunch on Queen's University Biological Station property
Tara Zamin and Casper Christiansen getting their fingers dirty as they sort root biomass at Daring Lake camp
Haiyan Chu saying a few words at his family's departure party after a 2 year postdoctoral fellowship with the Grogan lab
A favourite resting spot up on the esker near Daring Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada
Sean Doherty, Megan Rueckwald, Yvette Chirinian, Jordan Constant and Shelby Clarke at Jordan's study site in Stoke's field near Queen's University Biological Station
Nishka Wright and Emma Hill making dinner at Daring Lake camp
Brian Reid - master of many trades - showing 'how things should be done'. Daring Lake, 2006.
Mat Vankoughnett, Tamara Hansen (from Inuvik), and Meghan Laidlaw sorting harvested plants at Daring Lake camp
Sonia Nobrega giving a field demonstration of CO2 flux measurements to a group from the NWT Science camp
At the float dock, and ready for departure from Daring Lake
Amanda Tracey and other helpers at the annual picnic lunch at Bracken Tract field experiment, near Newborn, Queen's Biological Station
Yvette at Halloween
Climate march, March 2019
EGU Vienna Anthropocene poster
Climate march, September 2019
Climate march, September 2019
"We need to keep fossil fuel carbon in the ground"
Dr. Lonnie Aarssen and others at the annual picnic while maintaining our Bracken tract water/nutrient/deer exclosure experiment
Gerry Palmer - renowned physicist and true gentleman - and Casper at the party for the latter's Ph.D. completion
Graduation day outside Grant Hall
Terrestrial Ecosystems Workshop biannual meeting where the Grogan lab joins up with Dr. Hugh Henry and his students from the Dept. of Biology at Western for mutual exchange
John Serafini and Louis G. preparing for some outdoor sledding at Casper's finishing party
Nishka Wright, Casper Christiansen and Chalten all celebrating
Serafini sledding with enthusiasm
Drs Neal Scott, Sue Natali, and Scott Lamoureux and friends at Casper's finishing party
Our interactive hands-on display to encourage finishing first years to enter the Biology program
It may look like dirt, but it's soil - an entire ecosystem!
Soils, plants, geochemistry... we do it all!
A demonstration of the influence of fertilizer and phosphorus in particular on plant growth and morphology
Michelle Lemieux and Sanna Masud filled with terrestrial ecosystem ecological wonder
Rainbreak - well at least partly - during field work at Stoke's Field
Harris Ivens with his patented leaf juice extractor which he made with the help of Keith Harper!
The inaugural Meghan Hamp Frontenac Park lab hike (July 2021) From left: Me, Kieran Macfarlane, Willow, Meghan Hamp, and Mallory Sirimanne
Birch leaves in Fall
Qian Gu amused at my point-framing technique in late summer 2017 at Daring lake
Meghan Hamp busy making CO2 flux measures at Stokes Field 2020
Kira Henders and her poster on maple seedling survivorship
Kira Henders and Sarah Gordon attracting lots of attention at the QUBS Open Day June 2022
The full team at the QUBS Open Day June 2022
Enthusiastic volunteer Vicky Bui who helped us out in early summer 2022
Potluck July 2022 - Dominic, Kira, and Charlotte
Dominic enraptured by some 'words of wisdom'
Potluck July 2022 - Kelly, Richard, Sarah, and Sophie
Potluck - Sophie, Dominic, Kira, and Charlotte
Julia, Kira and I taking an 'elevenses' break on a very hot summer's day at Bracken Tract
A young PhD student fondling a shaved tussock near Toolik lake in N. Alaska in the late 90's!
Oxytropis (nitrogen fixing symbiotic plant) on the Daring Lake esker
Daring Lake carpentry/greenhouse strengthening team 2017
Serious work!
A oldish prof fondling a tussock near Daring lake in N. Canada 25 years later!
Faith Hines and Kira Henders presenting their Trillium flowering poster at QUBS open day (25th June 2023)
Baillie teaching award at Spring 2023 convocation
Kira and I on our way home after a long hot week in the Bracken tract field
Kira and Julia doing what they love at Bracken tract
The big harvest is on....
Pot luck lunch to celebrate Bracken tract 2023 harvest completion
Tattoos? -You don't put bumper stickers on a Bentley!
2023 lab Christmas door decoration contest entry - Kira and Dominic enjoying!!
Sierra, Amelia, Dominic (hiding!!), and two friends all helping to get the final tundra plant community samples sorted
Faith Hines 'at peace', while sorting Kira's Bracken Tract grassland plant community samples
Faith Hines at her QUBS poster on spatial patterning of Trillium flowering (June 2024)
Chocolate nests - Community
Kira, Justin, Kelly and Molly taking a break from judging at the 2024 ScienceFair
Molly at the thesis poster session
The full Trillium flower counting team May 2023: Kira Henders, Kelly Balfour, Tate Powell, Esther Chang, Jenna Disney, Jessica Puistonen, and Big Dom in the middle holding court!
Tate and Kira stunning proudly at their poster during QUBS open day June 23, 2024
Potluck for the lab group and esteemed friends on our back deck (June 23, 2024)
THE plant-soil nutrient cycle diagram (copyright pending!)
Elbow Lake Environmental education session. Enhancing humans’ sense of connection to nature as the basis for promoting biodiversity conservation (for thirty two 8-12 year olds!)
Sorting the big greenhouse experiment plant harvest - Daring lake 2024
Just look at this beautiful Rhododendron shoot! (alternative caption: That guy needs a haircut)
Dominic preparing for dental inspection; Kira tight-lipped!
Expansive tundra wilderness in all directions
Tundra plot sorted!
Put your hands up if you're happy
Colin - guide, mentor, care-taker, good guy
Tundra beauty
Hi ho! Hi ho! It's off to work we go...!
Beauty meets Science: Sierra Robinson's sketches of the principal plant species in mesic birch hummock tundra