{"id":17495,"date":"2025-05-07T14:39:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T18:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=17495"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:39","slug":"rachel-buxton-receives-early-researcher-award-for-groundbreaking-biodiversity-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2025\/rachel-buxton-receives-early-researcher-award-for-groundbreaking-biodiversity-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Buxton Receives Early Researcher Award for Groundbreaking Biodiversity Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Rachel Buxton Receives Early Researcher Award for Groundbreaking Biodiversity Work\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Our Biology Assistant Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/rachel-buxton\/\">Rachel Buxton<\/a>, has been awarded an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/early-researcher-awards\">Early Researcher Award (ERA)<\/a> from the Ontario government. <strong>Buxton<\/strong> is one of four 杏吧原创 researchers recognized this year as part of a $75 million provincial investment in 162 research and innovation projects through the ERAs and the Ontario Research Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Buxton\u2019s<\/strong> team will receive $140,000 in provincial funding, with 杏吧原创 contributing an additional $50,000 in support. Her research focuses on developing nature-based solutions to address biodiversity loss and rising mental health challenges, particularly in urban areas of southern Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.carleton.ca\/2025\/05\/province-of-ontario-recognizes-four-carleton-early-career-researchers\/\">Read the full story here!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Biology Assistant Professor Rachel Buxton, has been awarded an Early Researcher Award (ERA) from the Ontario government. Buxton is one of four 杏吧原创 researchers recognized this year as part of a $75 million provincial investment in 162 research and innovation projects through the ERAs and the Ontario Research Fund. Buxton\u2019s team will receive $140,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17499,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17495\/revisions\/17499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}