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Current Students
 KAROLYN McGOVERNKarolyn is undertaking her MSc at Laurentian University, co-supervised with Dr. Jackie Litzgus, and examining whether there is evidence of recovery in local amphibian populations 30 years after the Canada-US agreement that legislated co-ordinated reductions in acid rain. |  ETHAN GERACIEthan is undertaking his MSc in Environmental Science, co-supervised by Dr. Jennifer Provencher. Ethan is looking at boat-based microplastics in small harbours in Atlantic Canada, as well as experimenting with breakdown of these paints in a mesocosm experiment. |  LUCY VAN HAAFTENLucy is undertaking her MSc in the Mallory Lab, co-supervised by Dr. Jennifer Provencher, and looking at oil-related contaminants in Arctic terns and black guillemots in eastern and Arctic Canada |  KATIE RYDERKatie is studying gulls at Country Island, specifically if they are munching on smaller birds there like terns, and whether nest location influences their diet. She has spent a lot of time looking for things that come out of gulls ... |
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 ALEXA ARNYEKAlexa is migrating in from the Prairies, undertaking her MSc with us to examine plastics and health consideration of Arctic-nesting geese. She is co-supervised by Jennifer Provencher. |  NOLA MOREYNola joined the lab to undertake her MSc examining black bear diet and movements in Nova Scotia. (She's looking for birds in the photo, not bears ...) |  RIKKI CLARKRikki did her BSc at Acadia, and is undertaking her MSc with us, examining microplastics in Arctic fish (that's right ... fish ... in the Mallory Lab ... we'll see if she survives). She is co-supervised by Bonnie Hamilton and Jennifer Provencher. |  JORDAN TAKKIRUQJordan completed his BSc thesis at Mount Allison, looking at microscopic organisms in lakes, so we decided to give him something bigger and thus he is working at Acadia on contaminants in walrus. He's co-supervised by Dr. Jennifer Provencher. |
 RUBY SCHWEIGHARDTRuby is undertaking a MSc on (principally) roseate terns (along with common and Arctic terns) at Country Island, in collaboration with Jen Rock at Environment and Climate Change Canada. She has the simple task of explaining why 1 tern species is declining while the other 2 are increasing ... |  ALEXIS SAULNIERAlexis is doing her MSc on tern diets in southwest Nova Scotia (roseates, Arctic and common), co-supervised by Dr. Shawn Craik. In reality, she has invested a TON of time dealing with recovery implications of one species here ... maybe enough already to just give her a degree? |  MARK MADDOXMark is undertaking his MSc with the lab, co-supervised by Dr. Jennifer Provencher, and looking at diet and plastic ingestion in thick-billed murres from Arctic Canada. But he's also started an environmental club on campus, run an Arctic goose field research camp, and served as a national Ducks Unlimited Canada representative ... so he's keeping himself busy ... |  JACOB COMEAU-OUELLETTEJacob is undertaking a research topics course, in collaboration with the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, looking at fishers. Not people out in boats, but those beautiful, otter-like forest beasts that eat porcupines and domestic cats. So cool. |
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