Frederick Wrona, University of Calgary

Latest funding

Development of an adaptive monitoring and management framework for environmental substances of concern in municipal wastewater
NSERC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$480,000
Implications of varying ice and nutrient regimes on the hydroecology of cold regions lakes
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$198,000
Temperature - contaminant interactions in a zooplankton food web
NSERC · 1999 · Principal investigator
$42,000

Development of an adaptive monitoring and management framework for environmental substances of concern in municipal wastewater

Co-investigatorNSERC2021Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Munkittrick, Kelly RLH

Keywords: adaptive AOP framework; basal productivity; biological responses; Bow River Watershed; emerging substances of concern; environmental effects monitoring; Indigenous engagement; microbiome; municipal wastewater effluent; transcriptomics

$480,000

Implications of varying ice and nutrient regimes on the hydroecology of cold regions lakes

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Wrona, Frederick

$198,000

Temperature - contaminant interactions in a zooplankton food web

Principal investigatorNSERC1999Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Wrona, Frederick

$42,000

Portable greenhouses for assessing impacts of global change on aquaticsystems

Co-investigatorNSERC1998Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: McCauley, Edward

$21,623

Ecological scaling and relevance of ecotoxicity bioassays

Principal investigatorNSERC1995Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Wrona, Frederick

$37,720

Mosquito biological control using turbellarian predators

Principal investigatorNSERC1992Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Wrona, Frederick

$30,000

Group formation in freshwater macroinvertebrates: implications for foraging and life-history strategies

Principal investigatorNSERC1989Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Wrona, Frederick

$18,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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