Colleen Fortier, PhD

14/x Use firewood sourced from your local area. Don't take your local firewood with you when you go camping -- get firewood there. Don't bring your leftover firewood back home with you when you're done camping -- leave it behind. Don't move firewood.

If you haven't heard already, the emerald ash borer has now been found in British Columbia. This is a big deal. 🧵

I am looking for any evaluation of the % of invasive species present but undetected on a national or regional level. Bonus points if it's plants in a temperate area. Please RT.

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Grabbed some samples on the way home from #forestgenetics2023 #CFGA #WFGA Thanks to the organisers for a great conference!

Last month, @simonelimhing and I had the great pleasure of working with @c4tier and Dr. Janice Cooke at the University of Alberta. We chipped in a small piece to our hosts' great body of work dedicated to protecting lodgepole pine.

New paper out led by the lab of @WongFluids with @robotonia and undergraduate researcher Zach Weller from my lab. The physics of mountain pine beetle flight! Strouhal and Reynolds number scaling of force production in the Mountain Pine Beetle pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/articl…

🪲 In the 90s, a mountain pine beetle outbreak devastated BC's pine trees. @CarletonBiology Prof. Catherine Cullingham is playing a leading role in a $6.4M project studying genetic resilience and mitigation strategies for lodgepole and jack pine. 🌲 challenge.carleton.ca/fighting-mount…

Resources to help non-native English speakers who are writing a PhD dissertation buff.ly/2rMuKJw

Check out this blog post on The Applied Ecologist co-written by PhD candidate Jenna Hutchen in the Nguyen @vivmn lab @cu_research , discussing their recent @AER_ESE_BES paper #forestmanagement appliedecologistsblog.com/2023/03/21/eff…

Super pumped about our recent paper led by ⁦@robotonia⁩ ! ⁦@fRIresearch⁩ ⁦@NSERC_CRSNG⁩ ⁦@ualbertaScience⁩ link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Excited to have been included in this project - check out some cool work led by @robotonia !

Prairie strips are a farm conservation practice that requires minimal intervention and delivers huge benefits By converting 10% of cropland to native prairie, farmers can reduce soil loss by 95%, total phosphorous loss by 90%, and total nitrogen loss by 85% A quick summary:

@rhi_peery @jrossibarra We have to hammer first, especially for xylem. We flash freeze in liquid N2, hammer, and then mortar and pestle or mixer mill depending on how much there is

Anyone have good recommendations for grinding really tough plant tissue like wood (teosinte fruitcases in our case) to get fine enough powder for DNA extraction? N2 + mortar/pestle, genogrinder, etc. haven't done the trick for us.

Attention graduate students and post-doc members of the @cspbscbv ! We are looking for your submissions for our “Budding Ideas” column, appearing in the spring bulletin! What are we looking for you may ask?

This week I came across what I assume is the first #yegheritage inventory prepared by the City of Edmonton, in August 1982. It identified 37 heritage buildings in #yegdt for retention. What's happened to them in the 41 years since?

Awards Deadline has been extended to March 15. Apply or Nominate someone today!

New PDF/Research Associate position in the Nguyen Lab (@vivmn) @Carleton_U @CarletonIEIS tria-for.ualberta.ca/wp-content/upl…

!! New PDF Opportunity in @LabUhrig to apply Biochemistry & Proteomics in the Development of Mountain Pine Beetle resistance as part of the large, multi-university @TRIAFoR team !! Call Closes: Apr 3rd 2023 More at: uhriglab.com/positions.html Please Retweet!