Portrait to come
Dr. Elena Rostova
Principal Investigator & Senior Hydrology Fellow
Freshwater Biogeochemistry
About CIREE
A centre built between disciplines.
CIREE, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Ecology & Environment, works across ecology, environment, field research and interdisciplinary knowledge, and carries that work into outreach and public engagement.
Fig. 01 / Minas Basin intertidal saltmarsh at dawn — Long-term accretion monitoring.
01Mission
To understand how ecological and environmental systems work and change, by starting in the field, working across disciplines, and sharing what is learned openly.
Interdisciplinary approach
Four habits of the work.
Interdisciplinary research is a practice as much as a principle. These are the habits that shape how CIREE projects are designed and shared.
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Start in the field
Questions are grounded in direct observation of real places, species and systems, and return to them for evidence.
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Work across disciplines
Ecology and environmental science work alongside other fields of knowledge, because the systems being studied do not respect disciplinary lines.
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Think in systems
Close, careful observation and systems-scale analysis are treated as two views of the same question.
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Share openly
What is learned is shared with students, partners, communities and the public, not only with other researchers.
Methods
From the field to the evidence.
The kinds of methods CIREE projects draw on. Each project page lists the methods it actually used.
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Field observation and monitoring
Surveys, transects and repeat visits that record how places and populations change over time.
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Sampling and analysis
Water, soil, sediment and biological samples, collected carefully and analysed to a clear protocol.
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Mapping and spatial data
Maps, remote sensing and spatial analysis that place each observation inside its landscape.
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Modelling and synthesis
Bringing evidence together across sites, seasons and disciplines to see the larger pattern.
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Engagement and knowledge exchange
Working with the people who live in, manage and care about the places being studied.
People
The people behind the work.
Researcher-led profiles with disciplines, areas of focus and selected work.
Meet the peopleCollaborations
Better questions, asked together.
CIREE welcomes collaboration with researchers, institutions, funders and communities who share an interest in how living systems work and change. A collaboration can begin with a shared question, a dataset, a field site or a public programme.
Partner organisations will be listed here once confirmed.
Fig. 03 / Cypress Hills prairie transect — Paired lysimeter hydrology array.
Outreach
Research, shared.
Outreach and public engagement are part of the work, not an afterthought: programmes, events and conversations that open research to everyone it concerns.
Outreach and contact