Ales

Student's curiosity mushrooms into a calling

Budding researcher wins Alberta Emerald Award for idea to use fungi to reclaim oilsands tailings ponds.

Alberta Plant Watch: Citizens as 'eyes of science' track the effects of climate warming

Getting outside in spring to search for the first spring flowers is an enjoyable activity for anyone. Dr. Elisabeth Beaubien presented a talk at Edmonton city hall, as part of the city's 'the Way we Green' series.

Seeing the forest for the trees

ALES graduating student develops 'How-to-save-the-world' wall to remember the big picture

Climate projections help foresters decide what to plant

June 07 2013

University of Alberta researchers have developed guidelines that are being used by the forestry industry and government foresters to get a jump on climate change when planting trees. Article quotes Laura Gray, a postdoctoral fellow in the university's Department of Renewable Resources in the Faculty of ALES.

Maps developed to help forest industry outwit climate change

May 17 2013

University of Alberta researcher Laura Gray has developed guidelines being used by foresters and the timber industry to get a jump on climate change when planting trees.

Edmonton plant watchers search for hints of green

May 14 2013

The first wild strawberries and saskatoon bushes should be flowering any day now, then watch for the chokecherry bushes followed by the lilacs, says Elisabeth Beaubien, a plant researcher at the University of Alberta.