UWindsor professor Hugh MacIsaac is scientific director of the Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Network II, which will end a five-year run with a final conference this week.
UWindsor professor Hugh MacIsaac is scientific director of the Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Network II, which will end a five-year run with a final conference this week.
Hugh MacIsaac has been named Canada Research Chair in Aquatic Invasive Species.
Hugh MacIsaac has been named Canada Research Chair in Aquatic Invasive Species.
An aquatic ecologist has recently returned to Canada from meetings in Japan where he played an integral role in determining how both countries can better protect their water resources from a variety of pollutants.
Aquatic invasive species are a problem worldwide and the single biggest threat facing the Great Lakes, according to ecologist Hugh MacIsaac.
“I believe that it’s the leading issue in the Great Lakes today,” said Dr. MacIsaac, a professor in the university’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research and director of the Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Network.
Researcher Martin Hulak died last week at the age of 33, but his pioneering work will live on, say professors who held him in high regard.
Dr. Hulak, a post-doctoral fellow working with Hugh MacIsaac and Melania Cristescu at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, was found dead outside his Windsor home on Wednesday, August 29. A native of Slovakia, he started working on campus in March 2012.
Live garden plants like water hyacinth and water lettuce are being sold right across the country despite the fact they represent a clear and unregulated threat to Canada’s aquatic ecosystems, according to a UWindsor biology professor who will appear as an expert on invasive species before a government standing committee in Ottawa on Wednesday.
For a tiny creature with such a cute and seemingly harmless name, the sea squirt has done a lot of damage in a relatively short time.
Now thanks to modern genetic analysis techniques, a trio of researchers from the university’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research have identified three previously unidentified sub-types of sea squirts, commonly known as the golden star ascidian, and discovered new clues about their capacity – and possibly the capacity of other organisms – for invading various ecosystems.
