Landscape Ecology and Spatial Analysis Lab

Welcome to the Landscape Ecology and Spatial Analysis (LESA) lab, directed by Dr. Yolanda Wiersma. Please use the links above to navigate my site. Here’s the LESA Lab News for this month.

July 2017

New paper just out this month:

McMullin RT, YF Wiersma. 2017. Lichens and allied fungi of Salmonier Nature Park, Newfoundland. The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 144: 357-369.

Field work is well underway. Here are a few photos from the past month. the first mosaic is from Tegan’s project (photo credits: Tegan and John) and the second mosaic is Rachel’s project (photo credits: Rachel and Patrick). Hover your mouse over the photos to see captions.

Finding forested wetlands

Forested wetland project

Some gorgeous ground lichen

Another beautiful lichen find.

Lush lobaria

ahhhh….

studying wetlands means gettign wet

checking out a site

Patrick in early spring

Rachel geared up to deal with the bugs

The crew is finding interesting trees!

Nothing stops us!

Patrick taking a load off after hard work

A beautiful Degelia lichen

****To read the LESA Lab news archives click here.

****To see stories from the LESA Lab in the Media click here