Wonderful display of #autumn #Ericaceae #berries this week in our #coastal #heathlands! Pictured:
#Vaccinium vitis-idaea #lingonberry,
V. angustifolium #blueberry,
Empetrum nigrum #crowberry,
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi #bearberry,
V. macrocarpon #cranberry,
Gaylussacia bigeloviana #huckleberry

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I'm so proud to share that my student Mythri has published her BSc thesis work! Mythri was super interested in plant-acid interactions, she found that specific acid types matter to plants, not just pH.
This is the 1st paper from work done in my own lab 🙂
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/HARATU...

The Goud Lab is at the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists Meeting #CSPB2025! Come check out the poster session this evening and talk to my students about their work on #plant #ecophysiology, #metal #contamination, #peatland #restoration, salt stress and #climatechange @smuscience.bsky.social

Severe #droughts are causing concern for #wildfires in #NovaScotia 🇨🇦. The hiking ban includes #forests, #barrens & #peatlands. I hear mixed opinions on whether to pause #fieldwork or seek exemptions and carry on. As a #PI with students part-way through their thesis projects, what would you do?

What are my students doing these days? Botanizing & more botanizing! I have such a great team of students this summer - fieldwork in Nova Scotia & Ontario & on-campus experiments. Beautiful herbarium vouchers & data so far. I’ll be using this platform to highlight them & their important work 🍃

Coastal fieldwork is magic. The fog rolled in so thick, I could almost hold it in my hands. So many blooms and berries this week!

The legacy of #acidrain still impacts lakes in SW #NovaScotia. Would liming #restoration help or hurt sensitive #Atlantic Coastal Plain lakeshore #flora? MSc Summer C is going to find out! We spent yesterday setting up transects for her field experiment in an acidified #lake @smuscience.bsky.social