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MALLORY LAB

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Current Students

KATIE RYDER Katie 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 ...	ALEXA ARNYEK Alexa 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 MOREY Nola 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 CLARK Rikki 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 TAKKIRUQ Jordan 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.	ASHA GREWAL Asha is researching movements and breeding propensity of American common eiders tracked by satellite telemetry - a lot of fancy math and programming. For relaxation, we've sent Asha to a remote offshore island to help work in the deafening confines of a tern and gull colony. She's co-supervised by Sarah Gutowsky and Franny Buderman, and in collaboration with Environment and Climate Change Canada.
RUBY SCHWEIGHARDT Ruby 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 ...	JULIA BAAK Julia was originally undertaking her PhD at McGill on kittiwakes ... but COVID-19 and colony disasters got in the way. So, now she is completing her degree on the role of movement ecology in understanding contaminants in Arctic gulls. She's co-supervised by Kyle Elliott and Jenn Provencher.	ALEXIS SAULNIER Alexis 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 MADDOX Mark 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 ...	JESSIE WILSON Jessie is doing her MSc on potential biotransport of microplastics by emergent insects, and then one of their predators, tree swallows. Of course, her supervisors led her on a wild goose chase first trying to use ultrasound to detect plastics in birds, and then sampling sediments for amphibian biotransport of microplastics. Part of her research has been undertaken at the world famous Experimental Lakes Area, and she's co-supervised by Dr. Jennifer Provencher.	KRISTINE HANIFEN Kristine is undertaking her MSc on plastic pollution and dietary change through time in Arctic-breeding northern fulmars. Because she refused to call them God's birds, we sent her out to work for weeks on terns and gulls at Country Island, too. She is co-supervised by Dr. Jennifer Provencher.
KIIRSTI OWEN Kiirsti is undertaking her PhD in the lab, co-supervised by Joe Nocera at UNB, looking at coastal wetlands and waterbird changes in Maritime Canada. However, she managed to squeeze in and include some work on a passerine, Nelson's Sparrow ... but the lab decided to let her stay, despite clearly straying off lab species course ...	JACOB COMEAU-OUELLETTE Jacob 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.	AVERY NAGY-MacARTHUR Avery's MSc is based at Country Island and includes some fantastic GPS tracking of terns with dietary analyses. Her work is in collaboration with Environment and Climate Change Canada, to determine marine habitat use and niche overlap. Rumour has it that Avery is the best tern catcher on record, and terns write folk songs about her at the site ...

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