 KIIRSTI OWENKiirsti is undertaking her PhD in the lab, co-supervised by Joe Nocera at UNB, looking at coastal wetlands and waterbird changes in Maritime Canada. |  BEATRIZ MARTINSBeatriz is a MSc student at Technico Lisboa, a university in Portugal, examining mercury in aquatic food chains of wetlands. She's co-supervised with Dr. Nelson O'Driscoll and Dr. Joao Canario. |  ZOE BROWNZoe is undertaking her BSc thesis research, studying plastic debris along wrack lines on Nova Scotia beaches. |  MOLLY BRADFORDMolly is co-supervised with Dr. Nelson O'Driscoll, and is examining mercury uptake in macroinvertebrates from different brackish environments along the coast |
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 KRISTEN NOELKristen is studying the role that eider shelters can play in helping recover breeding populations around Nova Scotia; co-supervised with Dr. Shawn Craik |  JULIA BAAKJulia did her BSc thesis on seabirds in Nova Scotia, and has started her MSc (co-supervised by Dr. Jennifer Provencher) looking at circumpolar policies on plastic pollution, and what pollution ends up in seabirds |  KRISTIN BIANCHINIKristin joins the lab on a Mitacs-supported post-doctoral project examining whether common loon populations in Ontario have recovered from historic negative effects of acid rain as well as cottage development. The project is co-led by Doug Tozer at Bird Studies Canada as well as Rob Alvo. It will use data from Rob's 30+ year samping of lakes in the vicinity of Sudbury, along with the Canadian Lakes Loon Survey dataset, and some data from the Canadian Wildlife Service. |  LAUREN MUZAK RUFFLauren is an environmental science student, doing her MSc on biotransport of contaminants by gaspereau, and is co-supervised by Ian Spooner |
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 AVERY NAGY-MacARTHURAvery joins the lab from completing her BSc at Mount Allison University. Avery is working on the various tern species at Country Island, NS, in a collaboration with Environment and Climate Change Canada, to determine marine habitat use and niche overlap. |  JOANNA WONGJoanna is looking at migratory connectivity of North American Arctic terns, and is co-supervised by Marie Auger-Methe at UBC. She is using tracking data from terns collected at breeding sites from Alaska to high Arctic Nunavut to eastern Nova Scotia. This is a large, collaborative project with contributions from researchers in Alaska, central and northern Nunavut, and Nova Scotia. |  NICK KNUTSONNick is studying nesting requirements of endangered Roseate Terns in southern Nova Scota, with a goal of identifying additional suitable or recoverable habitat for this bird |  SARAH GUTOWSKYSarah is a Weston and Mitacs post-doctoral fellow. She has worked on Arctic marine bird movements, spatio-temporal trends in woodcock in Nova Scotia, and now marine ecosystem drivers of trends in eider and other seaduck/seabird abundance in Atlantic Canada. |
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