MSc Researcher Shayna Meinzinger Presents Findings on Wetland Methane Emissions at 2025 CMOS-CGU Joint Congress

From May 25-29, 2025, Shayna Meinzinger, master’s student at the University of Waterloo and member of the Solutionscapes Wetland Team, participated in the 59th Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, held jointly with the Canadian Geophysical Union in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Shayna delivered a presentation titled Balancing the Benefits: Quantifying Methane Emissions from Restored Wetlands, co-authored with Nandita Basu and Tonya DelSontro, sharing research in southern Ontario. Her work investigates how methane emissions from restored agricultural wetlands vary across seasons and locations, with a focus on the environmental drivers of these emissions within agricultural landscapes. Notably, the presence of duckweed is beginning to emerge as a potentially important factor influencing methane emissions in her research.