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Quetico Foundation’s Team Completes Successful Invasive Species Monitoring Expedition

By: Connor and Raquel The Quetico Foundations’ biology team has just finished two backcountry trips into the northern regions of the park for surveillance of an invasive plankton-eating species called the spiny water flea (SWF). The purpose of these trips was to go to lakes that have no confirmed cases of SWF and use weighted […]

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Position Available – 2023 Research Field Team

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This summer employment opportunity is funded by the Quetico Foundation through the Margery J. Warren bequest. The purpose of this position is to provide a student in the field sciences or related post-secondary program the opportunity to gain valuable experience. The Research Team Leader is part of a two-person research field team primarily responsible for

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Quetico Foundation awards a Lakehead University researcher with a $75,000 grant

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Quetico Foundation awarded Dr. Michael Rennie, Lakehead University, with a $75,000 grant over the next three years to evaluate how invasive spiny water flea and climate change are affecting the early growth rates and mercury loads of fish at Quetico Provincial Park. Dr. Michael Rennie, an Associate Professor in Biology, Canada Research Chair in Freshwater

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