Collin Letain joins CWHC Alberta
CWHC Alberta introduces Collin Letain as their team’s newest member Collin will join the CWHC’s Alberta Regional Center in the…
Monitoring Caribou Health Contributes to Conservation
Caribou are an iconic wildlife species of the Canada’s boreal forests and northern tundra. They play important roles in healthy…
Attracting the next generation to wildlife research!
On November 17th, 2015, the “NSERC – Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Host-Parasite Interactions (HPI) Training Program” held an…
Mind Controlling Parasite in Alberta!
Here in Canada we don’t often pay much attention to parasites. They are usually considered something you would get if…
Boreal Caribou Health Research Program
In northeastern British Columbia, the boreal ecotype of woodland caribou is red-listed due to declines in numbers and distribution. Infectious…
Passerine bird exposure to metal contaminants from oil sands mining in Northeastern Alberta
Christine M. Godwin, a Master’s student supervised by Drs. Robert Barclay and Judit Smits at the University of Calgary, studied…
Congratulations to Stefano Liccioli for successfully defending his PhD thesis
On Dec 17, 2014, Dr. Stefano Liccioli successfully defended his PhD thesis on “The transmission ecology of Echinococcus multilocularis in…
Arctic BioMap: A Community-specific Database to Track Wildlife Biodiversity, Disease, and Environmental Change
Arctic BioMap is a data platform being designed for citizen science/community-based Arctic change tracking program for assessment, research, management, and…
CWHC Alberta node update – December 12, 2014
The CWHC Alberta Node wants to congratulate Guilherme (Gui) Verocai, PhD candidate under Dr. Susan Kutz, for his success on…
A parasite of the North American river otter: Potential cause of blindness in burbot?
The North American river otter (Lontra canadensis) is a fur bearing mammal of economic value. Historically they were distributed throughout…