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XStream Student Field Guide

An Interactive Educational Resource 

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Teaching high school students about nature, stream health, and environmental stewardship through hands-on activities and colourful illustrations.

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The XStream Field Guide was designed to allow students to monitor the health of their local streams, from streambank to substrate.

 

All illustrations were done in Autodesk Sketchbook. Web design by Samantha Lau.

This project was funded by a SPICES grant.

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Figure Design: Oxygen Transport Cascade

Exploring how oxygen is transferred from the environment to the mitochondrion across multiple levels of biological organization. 

 

How is this cascade generalized across the animal kingdom?

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Scott, G.R., and Dalziel, A.C. (2021). Physiological insight into the evolution of complex phenotypes: aerobic performance and the O2 transport pathway of vertebrates. J. Exp. Biol. 224, jeb210849.

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Figures created in Adobe Illustrator and Krita

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Graphical Abstract Design

Lau, S.C., Mehdi, H., Bragg, L.M., Servos, M., Balshine, S., and Scott, G.R. (2021). Exposure to wastewater disrupts hypoxia responses in killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus). Env. Poll. 284, 117373 

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BioRender Graphics

Scientific illustrations depicting various topics, from lab protocols, animal morphology, toxicology, to field sampling techniques, and many more!

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All figures created in BioRender.com

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Luymes, N.W., and Chow-Fraser, P. (2022). Determinants of amphibian community composition in vernal pools of south-central Ontario: Considerations for conservation under changing climate and land-use. FACETS, 7 (1), https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2021-0097

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