CSEE Annual General Conference, UBC 2024

Photo credit: Andrea Wishart

Mushrooms of the Alaskan temperate rainforest along the Battery Point trail in Haines, Alaska on a break from Yukon fieldwork.

CSEE Annual General Conference, UBC 2024

Photo credit: Stephanie A. Rivest

Researchers record the behaviour of a Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) while it drinks nectar from the flowers of an Ocean Spray bush (Holodiscus discolor) in an oak savanna on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

CSEE Annual General Conference, UBC 2024

Photo credit: Kennedy Zwarych

Red-backed salamander on a zebra mussel podium attached to a unionid mussel.

CSEE Annual General Conference, UBC 2024

Photo credit: Simon Thibodeau

Leptodiaptomus minutus (a lacustrine calanoid copepod) at different life stages: nauplii (bottom left), copepodite (bottom right) and adults (top). The mature female (top left) is seen carrying eggs, while the male 5th leg (used for identification) is visible, and both adults show accumulation of lipid droplets.

CSEE Annual General Conference, UBC 2024

Photo credit: Kendra Morgan

MSc student Briar Hunter performing an ultrasound on an endangered Oregon Spotted Frog to measure its follicular development in British Columbia.

Photo credit: Ken A. Thompson

A photo of the threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.) species pair from Little Quarry Lake, British Columbia. A benthic female is above, and a limnetic female is below.

Photo credit: Justine Le Vaillant

Couple nicheur d'hirondelles bicolores (Tachycineta bicolor).

Photo credit: Lina Aragon Baquero

Measuring gas exchange on a beech sampling. UWaterloo Biology Greenhouse.

Photo credit: Danny McIsaac

DeKay's Brownsnake, Storeria dekayi. Walking the trail at Tommy Thompson Park where I saw several of these small snakes laying in the middle of the trail amongst small sticks. This one was very curious about my camera.

Photo credit: Kevin Bruce

PhD student collecting data along the shoreline on the western coast of Vancouver Island.

Photo credit: Stephanie A. Rivest

A Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) caterpillar is spotted peaking over a Common Milkweed leaf (Asclepias syriaca) while researchers survey butterfly communities around Montreal, Quebec.

Photo credit: Victoria Marie Glynn

A close up shot of a cauliflower coral (Pocillopora spp.) from Coiba National Park, Panama. The coral's various polyps can be seen, emitting a blue-like fluorescence.

Photo credit: Kristina Tietjen

Professor Julia K. Baum takes a tissue sample of a brain coral (Platygyra spp.) on Kiritimati (Christmas Island, Kiribati).

Photo credit: Stephanie A. Rivest

Bright autumn colours of deciduous forests in Gatineau, Quebec including mostly Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum), White Oak (Quercus alba) and Red Oak (Quercus rubra).

Photo credit: Andrea Wishart

Columbian ground squirrel (Urocitellus columbianus) in the alpine meadow of Ptarmigan Cirque, Peter Lougheed Provincial Park, Alberta. These high-elevation rodents experience a very short active season and hibernate most of the year. Their ecophysiology is under study by researchers at the University of Saskatchewan.

Photo credit: Justin Benjamin

Monitoring Canada goose (Branta canadensis) nests in Wapusk National Park.

Photo credit: Mathilde Salamon

Mathilde Salamon (PhD candidate, Derry lab at UQAM) is sampling zooplankton at the Station de biologie des Laurentides (Quebec) at the onset of winter. Calanoid copepods of the species Leptodiaptomus minutus were identified and their DNA extracted for genomic sequencing.

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Policy

Science coverage and CSEE member news pieces.

CSEE Response to Government of Canada "Getting Major Projects Built in Canada" - Discussion Paper, June 2026

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"Canada’s ‘major projects’ should not come at the cost of the environment"

The Conversation Article (June 3rd, 2026). Julia K. Baum, University of Victoria, Marc Johnson, University of Toronto, Sarah Otto, University of British Columbia

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"Le pari risqué du recul des garde-fous environnementaux"

La Presse (4 Juin, 2026) Laurence Feyten, Simon Joly et Fanie Pelletier Respectivement stagiaire postdoctorale, Université du Québec à Montréal ; directeur, Institut de recherche en biologie végétale de Montréal ; et professeure titulaire, Université de Sherbrooke

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