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ALT Promotional poster for Science Rendezvous Durham taking place on May 13, 2023, from 10 am to 3 pm at the Ontario Tech and Durham College Campus. Visit our website for more information: dc-ot.ca/rendezvous/index.php
ALT Three friends enjoying a meal.
ALT Poster with grad student presenter and PI standing next to eachother
ALT Woman sharing science communication with a whiteboard.
ALT Three women scientists at the SCAS conference.
ALT An image with the trans flag colors and a small hand waving a trans pride flag. Text reads: "Career Development Fellowship for Trans, Non-Binary, and Intersex People in STEM. Our career development fellowships are open! Awards range from $2,000 to $5,000 for grad students and postdcos. Deadline: Friday, December 2, 2022. For more information and to apply, go here: tinyurl.com/ycxktbh9"
ALT Model Organisms: Lake Sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens. An image of two swimming Lake Sturgeons is shown.
ALT Lake Sturgeon are Canada's largest freshwater fish. They can weigh up to 180 kg (~400 lbs) and reach lengths of over 3 meters (~10 feet) long! They are also Canada's oldest freshwater fish, having ancestral ties to a related species dating back 200 million years. Optimal Environment: Freshwater lakes and rivers with soft bottoms of mud, sand or gravel. Life Span: Moore than 100 years. Found in North America: Lake Sturgeon have a broad range that spans five Canadian provinces and 24 American states. A map of North America is shown, with markers showing the locations Lake Sturgeon are found. This includes the Hudson Bay Watershed, The St. Lawrence Watershed, the Great Lakes Watershed, and the Mississippi Watershed.
ALT Lake Sturgeon are a popular model organisms because: They are long-lived and have strong site fidelity (for spawning and other habitat conditions), which makes them sensitive indicators of the health of aquatic environments. They have few natural predators and are known to eat various invasive species (e.g. Zebrafish and Round Goby), helping to maintain healthy aquatic ecosystems. Two images of Lake Sturgeon are shown. Both Lake Sturgeons hover above the bottoms of the lakes they are in.
ALT Lake Sturgeon have special significance to many Indigenous cultures. Historically, Lake Sturgeon were a rich and healthy primary food source and provided communities with many useful materials. Lake Sturgeon hold spiritual and cultural significance for some communities, as they represent certain values and are central to sacred teachings and ceremonies. A screenshot of "Namew/Lake Sturgeon in Moose Cree Homeland," a video by Moose Cree First Nation and WCS Canada's Learning From Lake Sturgeon project, is shown. In it, two Elders stand with two youth, pointing out at the river that flows in front of them. Artwork by Mishiikenh Kwe (@mishiikenhkwe), an Anishinaabe artist from the Caribou Clan - Magnetawan First Nation, is shown. The artwork depicts a "Nme," the Ojibwe word for "sturgeon."
ALT A humorous and also truthfully honest bar graph about scientific phenomena that are scary to aquatic toxicologists, listed in order of increasing scariness: Science Mis-information; Genotoxins; Harmful Algal Blooms; Invasive Aquatic Species; Climate Change; and "When the -80 degree celsius freezer alarm goes off!!!".
