Canadian Rivers Institute

Members of the CRI conduct research on regional, national and international issues related to rivers and their land-water linkages.

The CRI has expanded rapidly and now includes 14 Fellows (including four Canada Research Chairs), 30 Associates, 12 staff, and over 45 graduate students, and has a new state-of-the-art building on the Saint John campus (opened September 2007) and numerous partnerships and programs with researchers and organizations across Canada and around the world .

[2] Research by the CRI at the UNB Fredericton campus is primarily focused on aquatic ecology through the New Brunswick Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, the Stable Isotopes in Nature Laboratory and the Laboratory on Mitigating Impacts of Hydroelectric Development.

In addition to this, the National Water Research Institute of Environment Canada houses four members of its staff in a Laboratory for Multistressor Effects on Aquatic Biodiversity.

Located on the UNB campus in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, research at the CRI Saint John focuses on the environmental impacts of industrial and agricultural operations, chemical contamination of food webs and the reproductive physiology of fish as well as ecotoxicology.