MALLORY LAB

Sarah completed two post-docs during her time with the Mallory Lab, focused on Arctic seabirds and then American common eiders. She is presently a Quantitative Biologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Molly completed her MSc on mercury in coastal invertebrates, co-supervised by Dr. Nelson O'Driscoll

Kristen completed her MSc with the lab, co-supervised by Dr. Shawn Craik, looking at the use of nesting shelters for common eiders in Atlantic Canada

Julia did her MSc with our lab on plastic pollution policy, and trends in plastic pollution as monitored by seabirds, in the Arctic. She was co-supervised by Dr. Jennifer Provencher.

Dr. Kristin Bianchini completed an initial post-doc on threats to loons in Ontario, and started a second post-doc before getting a job with the Canadian Wildlife Service!

Beatriz completed her MSc at University of Lisbon and was co-supervised by Drs. Nelson O'Driscoll and Joao Canario. She examined mercury in aquatic invertebrates in lakes and wetlands.

Jessie did a bang-up MSc examining biotransport of Hg, Cd and As by colonial gulls nesting on islands around SW Nova Scotia. She now works for the Coastal Action foundation in Nova Scotia.

Liam completed his MSc looking at adult survival and seasonal movements of American Black Ducks wintering in Nova Scotia. He was co-supervised with Greg Robertson. Liam now works in aquaculture in BC.

Sarah completed (at least) 2 post-doctoral projects in the lab, collaborating with Carina Gjerdrum at ECCC and supported by a Weston Award, MEOPAR and NSERC pdfs, and is now a wildlife biologist at Environment and Climate Change Canada

Claudia completed her MSc at University of Lisbon, co-supervised by Joao Canario, on biotransport of contaminants by breeding marine birds at the Berlengas Nature Preserve in Portugal

Molly completed her MSc on declining eiders, changing habitat characteristics and booming predator populations in the Eastern Shore Islands Wildlife Management Area in Nova Scotia. She is currently a Conservation Biologist at Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Adam completed his MSc with the using paleo methods to assess the history of the Avon River, especially links to marine systems

Jenn completed her first post-doctoral research project with the lab before becoming a Research Scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada

Jocelyn finished her MSc looking at the effects of nesting gulls on mercury in bog water at Big Meadow Bog, Brier Island, NS.

Kaja is an international student who joined our lab for some Directed Studies research on behavior of Arctic birds.

Erika completed her BSc(honours) at Acadia, and worked on plastic ingestion in birds for her MSc.  She solicited contributions of freshwater bird carcasses from hunters, government agencies and non-government organizations from across the country, and has completed over 350 dissections to date. Her results were both impressive and alarming, showing that even Canadian freshwater birds are ingesting human garbage. Erika was co-supervised by Dave Shutler.

Christine's M.Sc. used satellite telemetry to track Herring Gulls from their breeding colony on Southampton Island, and she examined local habitat use as well as year-round movements. She compared this to movements of gulls breeding in the Great Lakes and Atlantic Canada. She was co-supervised by Grant Gilchrist, and was funded through a MITACs grant related to the Baffinland Iron Mine in Nunavut. Other gull researchers like Rob Ronconi were closely involved in this project.

After completing her BSc thesis on metals in wetland biota, Amanda started her MSc on wetlands in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Specifically, she examined how rapidly constructed wetlands decline in productivity, how this compares to natural wetland production dynamics, and what factors might contribute to this. She defended her thesis like a pro in February 2016 and is jumping into a Ph.D. at UofT!

Isabeau is coming from Université du Québec à Rimouski. She is a climber, has a cool french accent, and previously worked with the field team at Bylot Island in Nunavut and also at Nasaruvaalik Island and PLI. Starting in 2014, she worked in Labrador, looking at foraging movements and resource partitioning among four alcid species.  Her field work was conducted at the Gannet Islands off coastal Labrador.

Matthew came to the lab from his undergrad at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and he worked on overwintering American Black Ducks (Anas rubripes) in the Maritimes. Matthew's focus was on diet, food supplies, and assessing the relative influence of urban vs. natural food supplies on condition and possibly survival. Matthew was co-supervised by Greg Robertson at Environment Canada, and he now is a Data Co-ordinator with that organization.

Karissa joined the lab in 2014, and was completing her MScAG in applied geomatics here at Acadia. Her project examined changes in land cover on northern Coats Island, Nunavut, over the past ~ 2 decades, as it relates to increasing snow goose populations in the Arctic. She is co-supervised by David Colville at Nova Scotia Community College, and her project is tied to that of Paul Smith, research scientist with Environment Canada, who runs the field station at Coats Island.

Nathalie's MSc follows her B.Sc. thesis on mitochondrial DNA in Purple Sandpipers (Calidris maritima). She used data from across the species' range to link breeding populations to wintering populations in this declining species. Natural Resource personnel from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Maine are collaborators in this project. Nathalie is co-supervised with Don Stewart.

Dani did her MSc examining survival in two trans-equatorial migrant seabird species

Shanti completed her M.Sc. studying the beautiful Sabine's Gull (Xema sabini). She used geolocators to track the species' annual movements, key marine habitat sites and breeding phenology in High Arctic Canada. Shanti was based at Memorial University of Newfoundland and was co-supervised with Ian Jones.

Mark completed his MSc studying the breeding behaviour and migration of Ross's Gull (Rhodostethia rosea), the rarest breeding marine bird in North America, as it relates to Arctic polynyas. His work used geolocators and satellite transmitters to track the gulls, and work took him to the High Arctic and to Barrow, Alaska. He was based at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and was co-supervised by Ted Miller.

Christine did her M.Sc. at Acadia University, working in the Tantramar Region of Nova Scotia/New Brunswick. She examined the temporal abundance and diversity of macroinvertebrates in brackish and freshwater ponds through the summer to compare across wetland types, and then comparing use of these wetlands by waterbirds in relation to food supplies. Nic McLellan (Ducks Unlimited Canada) and Al Hanson (Environment Canada) are collaborators in this project.

Sam came to the lab from Dalhousie University, and is a fish guy through-and-through, formerly working as a guide in northcentral Canada. He has already managed to find some sweet fishing sites in the area, but has yet to show those to Mark ... (well, actually, he hooked a lovely striped bass with Mark). Sam worked on multispecies fish passage across man made barriers to identify specific obstacles to movement and migration. He was co-supervised with Mike Stokesbury here at Acadia.