Current Students
 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 |  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 |
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 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 |  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 joins the lab as a Weston Awarded post-doctoral fellow. She is undertaking analyses that examine the relationships between broad scale climate and annual measures of reproductive effort and success for marine birds in Arctic Canada. She will use data from seabird monitoring sites in high and low Arctic Canada, along with measures of sea ice concentrations and weather and climate indices. |