UofG Arboretum is an internationally accredited botanic garden with a strong focus on native Ontario woody plants of known wild provenance.
Do you have a botany background, practical management experience in horticulture, and a demonstrated passion for native tree conservation?
Several of our researchers contributed to the first comprehensive cannabis cultivation book and the book was edited by our very own Dr. Youbin Zheng. The tite of the book is "Handbook of Cannabis Production in Controlled Environments" and was published by Routledge.
The book can be used as textbook for students or a handbook for growers.
The list of chapters and more details about the book can be found on the publisher's website.
The Box Tree Moth is an invasive species recently detected in Ontario and not known to occur anywhere else in North America. We need your help with monitoring this new invasive insect pest. This is a great chance to get some more volunteer experience and to participate in an important citizen science project.
You can learn more about this project on this Government of Canada website.
Dr. Andrew Young
Wild pollination of soybean: investigating the effects of biotic pollinators on a supposedly self-fertilizing legume
Dr. Ryan Prosser
Investigation of the effect of microplastics on aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates
Dr. Claudia Wagner-Riddle
Diversified crop rotations: evaluating their resilience to extreme weather events and carbon sequestration potential
Dr. Madhur Anand
Dr. Susan Glasauer
Title of Proposed Research Project: Biostimulation of microbial communities in peatlands through fertilization by atmospheric dusts.
Dr. Tom Hsiang
Title of Proposed Research Project: Ecology of Landscape Plant Diseases.
Dr. Marc Habash
Title of Proposed Research Project: Wastewater-based epidemiology of viruses: evaluating persistence of virus nucleic acids during long term sample storage.