We are really excited about a new paper led by former FERG PDF Dr. Gord McNickle “The world’s biomes and primary production as a triple tragedy of the commons foraging game played among plants”… check it out!
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/283/1842/20161993
We are looking for a highly motivated individual for a PhD position focusing on changes in plant functional traits along a latitudinal climate and permafrost gradient in the Canadian boreal zone. Go here for more details.
FERG Postdoc Nicola Day is leading the establishment of a seeding experiment aimed at understanding drivers of post-fire successional trajectories. Thanks to Jill Johnstone for her help getting this started!
FERG MSc candidate Katie Black was recently awarded a Garfield Weston Award for Northern Research for her studies on tundra shrubbing! Read more about her award in the Canadian Geographic and Laurier Research. 
Congratulations to Cory Wallace, Katie Black and Meagan Warkentin who received OGS awards and to Katherine Standen for receiving the OGS-QEII award. Great job guys!
FERG Postdoc Nicola Day presented her work on heat resistant fungi at the meeting. For more information go here. Here is one of Nicola’s fungal cultures Penicillium fuscum.
