Paige Kowal, M.Sc.

Research Biologist

Providing geospatial analyses and helping quantify ecosystem services.

Paige Kowal joined IWWR in 2017. She is involved in water quality and ecological monitoring projects, supervising field-site and seasonal crew members, and geospatial analyses of wetlands and their surrounding landscapes. She has extensive experience studying coastal freshwater marshes in Manitoba (Delta and Netley-Libau Marsh) through her academic and professional work, and now works primarily on quantifying wetland ecosystem services provided by prairie pothole wetlands.

Paige graduated with her M.Sc. from the Biological Sciences Department at the University of Manitoba. Her thesis focused on using GIS and aerial photo interpretation to analyze historical changes in emergent vegetation extent within Netley-Libau Marsh in Manitoba in response to lake and river hydrology.

Education

M.Sc., Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba
B.Sc., Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba

Paige’s Publications (organized by year)

Logozzo, L.A., C. Soued, L.E. Bortolotti, P. Badiou, P. Kowal, B. Page, and M.J. Bogard. 2025. Agricultural land use impacts aquatic greenhouse gas emissions from wetlands in the Canadian Prairie Pothole Region. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 39:e2024GB008209.

Paterson, J.E., L.E. Bortolotti, P.D. Kowal, A.J. Pidwerbesky, and J.H. Devries. 2024. Predicting the effects of land cover change on biodiversity in Prairie Canada using species distribution models. Biological Conservation 298:110754.

Soued, C., M.J. Bogard, K. Finlay, L.E. Bortolotti, P.R. Leavitt, P. Badiou, S.H. Knox, S. Jensen, P. Mueller, S. Ching Lee, D. Ng, B. Wissel, C.N. Chan, B. Page, and P. Kowal. 2024. Salinity causes widespread restriction of methane emissions from small inland waters. Nature Communications 15:717.

Wrubleski, D.A., R.B. Emery, P.D. Kowal, and L.M. Armstrong. 2024. Fish assemblage responses to the exclusion of invasive common carp (Cyprinus carpio) from a large freshwater coastal wetland, Delta Marsh, Manitoba. Wetlands 44:16.

Bortolotti, L.E., R.B. Emery, P.D. Kowal, L.M. Armstrong, V.B. Harriman, H.V. Singer, M.J. Anteau, F.B. Baldwin, C. Meuckon, and D.A. Wrubleski. 2023. Migrating ducks and submersed aquatic vegetation respond positively after invasive common carp (Cyprinus carpio) exclusion from a freshwater coastal marsh. Wetlands 43:25.

Kowal, P.D., P. Badiou, R.B. Emery, L.G. Goldsborough, D.A. Wrubleski, L.M. Armstrong, and B. Page. 2022. Improvement in water clarity and submersed aquatic vegetation cover after exclusion of invasive common carp from a large coastal wetland, Delta Marsh, Manitoba. Frontiers in Environmental Science 10:992690.