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

7-06-2021 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!

2-06-2021 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.

01-06-2021 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!

11-04-2021 Failing all our relations Andrea Kirkwood co-authored an op-ed article on the failure of Ontario planning policy to fulfill meaningful Indigenous engagement.

10-03-21 COVID case counts dropping locally, but more variant cases showing up in wastewater testing. Andrea Kirkwood discusses SARS-CoV-2 viral levels in Simcoe-Muskoka municipal wastewater. Here is the article link.
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.