STREAM program extended through 2022
The STREAM (Sequencing The Rivers for Environmental Assessment and Monitoring) partners – Living Lakes Canada, World Wildlife Fund-Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada and University of Guelph – are very excited to share that the project has been approved for an extension until September 2022. Participants are invited to continue to submit their benthic macroinvertebrate samples for DNA metabarcoding analysis — free of charge by the University of Guelph — for the 2022 season.
Living Lakes Canada and the World Wildlife Fund-Canada will provide training support for another 5 priority watersheds across Canada until October 1, 2022. Additionally, WWF-Canada will continue to cover the costs of sample shipments for community groups to the University of Guelph for analysis, as previously arranged, until October 1, 2022.
Complete our Online Survey
Please let us know if your organization is interested in or planning to submit samples to the STREAM project in 2022.
Need training support?
This season we are asking that participants who wish for the STREAM project to help support their training needs, complete a Request for Proposal to indicate their training needs and details. The Request for Proposal will be open from December 2021 – March 2022.
WWF-Canada and LLC will review proposals and make training selections in late March 2022. We will touch base with partners early April 2022. We will require selected participants to complete a Memorandum of Understanding that lays out roles and responsibilities of each participant.
If you have your own funding and wish to Request a Fee-for-Service course (without WWF-Canada monetary support), please complete the form below.
Reminder: New Project Coordinator
We would also like to remind participants that former STREAM Project Coordinator Dr. Chloe Robinson is no longer with the project. If you are using an earlier version of the STREAM info sheet or Shipping SOP, please DO NOT include Chloe’s contact in the address when shipping samples and please do not call or text Chloe about the STREAM project.
Mike Wright has filled in for Chloe and will be happy to answer any questions on behalf of the Hajibabaei lab at the University of Guelph.
The University of Guelph will be closed for the Winter holidays. The deadline to send your samples before the upcoming holidays is Friday, December 10. Mike and the lab will not be available to receive your samples during the Christmas break. Please resume sample shipment after January 15, 2022. Thank you and Happy Holidays!
We’re hiring an eDNA Program Coordinator
Living Lakes Canada is seeking a Program Coordinator (full-time employee) to start February 15, 2022. We are seeking an individual with experience in the non-profit sector, field work and is Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) certified.The successful candidate will possess strong leadership, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills. Experience and sound judgment to plan and accomplish goals as well as a wide degree of creativity and rigour are expected. The Program Coordinator will work independently via remote work space, collaborating with the Living Lakes Canada team, the project team, and external partners on a regular basis.
Please direct any questions to Living Lakes Canada STREAM Program Manager Raegan Mallinson at raegan@livinglakescanada.ca.
Thank you STREAM participants!
