Based at Ontario Tech University in the Faculty of Science, the Kirkwood lab conducts aquatic ecology research in a variety of systems including ponds, wetlands, rivers, lakes, and even wastewater sytems. We also study the biotechnological applications of algae. Please explore the website to learn more or contact Andrea Kirkwood directly.
LAB NEWS

19-10-21 Andrea Kirkwood interviewed for a feature article on proposed development in the Carruther's Creek headwaters: Hospital vs. headwaters: Ontario’s Durham Region battles over the future of Carruthers Creek

19-08-21 New paper by Dr. Tyler Harrow-Lyle, a recent PhD graduate of the Kirkwood Lab: Low Benthic Oxygen and High Internal Phosphorus-Loading are Strongly Associated With the Invasive Macrophyte Nitellopsis obtusa (starry stonewort) in a Large, Polymictic Lake. The open-access article is available here.

07-06-21 IFHAB Best Paper Award Grad student Tyler Harrow-Lyle won the The Interdisciplinary Freshwater Harmful Algal Blooms Workshop Best Student Paper Award - PhD for his paper: The invasive macrophyte Nitellopsis obtusa may facilitate the invasive mussel Dreissena polymorpha and Microcystis blooms in a large, shallow lake. Big congratulations Tyler!

02-06-21 Emerging Environments Podcast Andrea Kirkwood and youth Activist Devin Mathura are featured guests discussing the fight to protect wetlands in southern Ontario. Find the episode on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.

01-06-21 William R. Smith Best Thesis Award Recent graduate of the Kirkwood Lab Alex Johnston won the best thesis award (Masters) in the Faculty of Science at Ontario Tech University. Big congratulations Alex!
The Kirkwood Lab at Ontario Tech University acknowledges the lands and people of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation. The lands we are situated on are covered under the Williams Treaties and are the traditional territory of the Mississauga, a branch of the great Anishinaabeg Nation, including Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi. These lands remain home to a number of Indigenous nations and people who have cared for Turtle Island, also known as North America, from before the arrival of settler peoples. We are thankful to be welcomed on these lands in friendship. Most importantly, we remember the history of poor treatment and a lack of friendship with the First Nations who call these lands home. This history is something we are all affected by as treaty people in Canada. Our past defines our present, but if we move forward as friends and allies, then it does not have to define our future.