the faculty of science & environmental studies 2025 speaker series: dr. michael rennie - "lake invaders: species-dependent changes in fish mercury concentrations after spiny water flea invasion"

about the event / speaker

dr. michael rennie is an associate professor at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 and was the canada research chair in freshwater ecology and fisheries from 2015-2024. as lead researcher of the cee lab, dr. rennie oversees his team’s use of whole-lake experiments, lab studies and archival data sets to investigate how lakes and fish populations respond to ecosystem changes such as climate warming, invasive species and contaminants. he is also the acting director of lakehead’s aquatic toxicology research centre. 

dr. rennie is also a research fellow with the international institute for sustainable development-experimental lakes area (iisd-ela), where he oversees the fish population monitoring program and the site of many of cee lab members’ field studies and whole-lake experiments. he is also an adjunct professor in the biological sciences department at the university of manitoba.

dr. rennie’s research is focused on understanding the fundamental linkages between metabolic performance of individuals and ecosystem-level processes, the means by which these relationships are modulated in altered environments, and how these changes affect the pathway and efficiency of energy flow through food webs.