About
The research in the Iversen lab borders between landscape geography and freshwater sciences. Focusing on both standing and running waters, we study contemporary changes in landform types and functional adaptations to the local environment. We like to build scalable landscape models but also enjoy muddy fieldwork and both approaches are welcome in our lab.
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The Iversen lab is placed in the Department of Biology at McGill University.
Places we work in and organism we study
Lab news
May 2026: Come meet us at the 2026 ASLO-SIL meeting! Please check out lab members’ talks, posters, and sessions here
April 2026: Macrophytes, Milestones, and Motivation. Lindsay represent the lab at the the International Symposium on Aquatic Plants link
April 2026 Yang Liu’s paper on variation in global aquatic plant height is out in Global Ecology and Biogeography!
March 2026 Tree cover shapes freshwater ecosystems over millennia. Our Plain of Jar paper from Ecography is being highlighted by the McGill newsroom
March 2026 Novel high-resolution data to unravel distribution, mechanisms and anthropogenic threats to freshwater macrophytes worldwide. First global mapping of aquatic plant distributions out in Journal of Ecology
February 2026 Strong representation at this years QCBS symposium, with research from the lab presented by Cindy, Christophe, Lindsay, and Ryan!
January 2026 A commute to work in Copenhagen. Phd student Christophe Brabant reflects on his recent visit to the Globe institute.