Congratulations to my student, Madelaine Picard, for winning an award for best ecology talk at Ontario Biology Day last weekend and at Western’s Biology thesis day today! Maddie studied the biotic resistance hypothesis with European Green Crabs and will be pursuing a master’s at McGill next year.

I'm pleased to report that I received funding to buy binoculars so that students can help me make observations for the Biodiversity Inventory at Western. We reported on our first year of results in this paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7159/4/3/32