Welcome to the Kharouba lab
We are in the Department of Biology at the University of Ottawa, ON, Canada. We study how and why species are responding to global change, and what those responses mean for ecological communities.​

Join the Kharouba lab

Opportunities

Undergraduate opportunities
  • **We are looking for volunteers to help us in the field this summer. Please contact Dr. Kharouba.
  • I'm looking for a student to help with artwork to help communicate our science more broadly.
  • Please contact Dr. Kharouba to find out more about volunteer research opportunities in the lab.
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Prospective Honours students
I am no longer accepting Honours students for 2023-2024.

Prospective graduate students
I am not accepting new graduate students at this time. 
News
26 May 2023- Big news! Zoe will be starting as an Assistant Professor at Acadia University November 1. Congrats Zoe!!

1 May 2023- A huge congratulations to Steph who will be starting a MITACS postdoc with the Université de Montréal and the Montreal Botanical Garden in September!

14 April 2023- Congratulations to the Honours students-- Marianne, Zoe and Sarah-- for their amazing posters and projects!
28 March 2023- Congratulations to Maisy for passing her MSc defence with flying colours!! 

8 March 2023- Such a fun project and great study by Steph just published in Ecology. Check out the amazing graphical abstract designed by @eberh_art and the media release here.

22 February 2023- Check out our opinion piece in The Conversation Canada about challenging the paradigm on non-native species.
20 January 2023- Heather is on sabbatical at UBC for the next 6 months. If you're in Vancouver, come say hi!
12 December 2022- A huge congratulations to Dr. Steph Rivest and Hannah Keefe for successfully defending their PhD and MSc thesis, respectively. The lab won't be the same without them!
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10 Sept 2022- Great interview by Manon on CBC radio about her project! 
6 Sept 2022- Welcome to the new students in the lab! Welcome to Spencer, Katherine, Sarah, Marianne and Zoe.
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21 June 2022- Happy to be a part of Pheno2022 in Avignon. Fun to see so much great work on phenology!
16 June 2022- Had a great time in the field with Jessica Linton and Ryan Norris in central Ontario. Thanks for the intro to the endangered Mottled duskywing butterfly!
18 January 2022-  Welcome to Nico, a new postdoc in the lab!

14 January 2022- Welcome to Manon who is joining the lab as a new MSc student!
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21 November 2021- Congratulations to Steph who won the 'Teaching Assistant of the year' award in Biology!
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​21 July 2021- A great interview by Steph on the CBC Ottawa Morning show about her new paper.​
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12 July 2021- Check out our new lab paper on documenting milkweed decline around Ottawa. pdf

24 June 2021- Congrats to Sharla on doing a fantastic job at defending her MSc!

26 May 2021- Congrats to Sydney on successfully completing her MSc!

21 April 2021- Congrats to lab alumni Phil Tremblay on the acceptance of his MSc paper in Ecology and Evolution.

12 April 2021- Congrats to Steph on the acceptance of her 1st PhD paper published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology!

13 September 2020 - ​Welcome to Maisy Roach-Krajewski and Hannah Keefe, new MSc students, and Darby Hooper and Ben Lalonde, new Honours students.

9 July 2020- After months of social distancing, the field team is happy to be out in the field again.
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