Acadia University - Research

As the Arctic warms, its plants are changing, and Dr. Zoe Panchen is paying close attention.

Dr. Panchen, an Assistant Professor of Biology at Acadia University, uses digitized herbarium specimens to study how plants are responding to climate change.

Three of her papers are featured in this year's State of the World's Plants and Fungi report, produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew—one of the world's leading authorities on plant science.

Atlantic bluefin tuna populations were headed for collapse because of overfishing in the early 2000s. In recent years, the species has rebounded, and a new report on the decades-long electronic-tagging program reveals why.

A new research project working in partnership with Indigenous communities  is underway at Acadia