Celebrate Invasive Species Awareness Week by learning more about some of the invasives that threaten forests in Canada! Join us to hear all about hemlock woolly adelgid, spotted lanternfly, and beech leaf disease. *This FREE workshop includes an outdoor tour of infested hemlock stands at Royal Botanical Gardens! Please dress appropriately for the weather. *Use […]
Join us for a free full-day workshop at Science North in Sudbury, Ontario! Learn about the ISC's latest initiative to mitigate the impacts of the emerald ash borer on surviving ash trees, with a special focus on black ash, a species at risk in Ontario. Hear from leading experts on the latest research surrounding emerald […]
The Queen's University Biological Station is hosting an immersive training program from May 11–16, 2025, featuring lectures, hands-on field and lab activities, and instruction in sampling, data collection, processing, analysis, and interpretation. An optional Oxford Nanopore Long Read Sequencing Workshop will be available on May 16–17. Open to students, industry professionals, and the public. Participants […]
On July 24, the Invasive Species Centre, in coordination with the Ontario Trillium Foundation and MNR, will be hosting a free workshop in Brighton to increase awareness and reporting of beech leaf disease. Beech leaf disease can impact all species of beech and is thought to be caused by an invasive foliar-feeding nematode. It has been spreading rapidly through […]
The focus of this workshop is the spotted lanternfly, an invasive pest spreading in the northeastern United States, with populations as close to Canada as Buffalo, New York. Although not currently in Canada, if spotted lanternfly were to establish, it could have immense impacts on agricultural production and the natural environment within Ontario's Greenbelt. Presented by […]
