Current students & HQP
Nik Clyde
Nik is investigating whether or not common eiders nesting in the Canadian Arctic are enriching the terrestrial environment of islands with large breeding colonies through transporting and depositing marine-derived nutrients. In general he is interested in questions of ecosystem connectivity, community ecology, contaminants, and conservation biology.
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Rebecca Dalton
Rebecca is an ecotoxicologist who assesses the effects of anthropogenic stressors on wetland and freshwater ecosystems. Her current research is focused on understanding the effects of pesticides such as neonicotinoids on a variety of organisms and on developing passive sampling techniques for contaminants.
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Felipe Dargent
Felipe is an evolutionary ecologist working on enemy-victim interactions, with a particular interest in the eco-evolutionary causes and consequences of anti-parasite defense. Website
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Jacintha van Dijk
Jacintha has a strong interest in the ecology of infectious diseases in wild host populations. She is currently involved in projects conducting research on avian influenza and avian cholera, with a main focus on disease dynamics, host immunity, and how population structure and host movements may impact disease spread. ResearchGate
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Sjoerd Duijns
Sjoerd is a behavioural ecologist with a background and interest in foraging behaviour and migration. He is working on the distribution and migration patterns of several shorebird species in North America using the motus wildlife tracking system.
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Frankie Jean-Gagnon
Frankie is interested in the effects of sea ice conditions on animal’s behavior, more specifically in movement ecology of Arctic migratory species. Her main objective is to assess how sea ice conditions can be used as environmental cues in decision-making related to migratory strategies and habitat use of eider ducks breeding in the Eastern Canadian Arctic.
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André Morrill
André is a research assistant and technician specializing in statistical modelling and analyses. His particular research interests relate to the causes and consequences of parasite aggregation among hosts.
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Jennifer Provencher
Jennifer is a biology student focusing on examining how parasites and contaminants such as mercury affect breeding Arctic marine birds. Much of her work involves working directly with northern communities. You can follow Jennifer here on her research blog.
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Previous students & HQP (past 6 years)
Rozlyn Boutin
Rozlyn is currently an MD/PhD student at UBC studying the influence of early life gut microbiota on the development of childhood asthma. More specifically, her research interests lie in determining which constituents of the gut microbiota are related to either protection against or being at increased risk of developing asthma by school age, and how these constituents are interacting with the immune system in early life to do this.
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Gregory Bulte
Greg is an instructor in biology at Carleton University where he teaches courses on ecology, evolution and organismal biology. His work in the Forbes’ lab focused on the effects of invasive species on the interactions between native host and their parasites. Greg's current work focuses on the reproductive behaviour of freshwater turtles. Website
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Samuel Iverson
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Wayne Knee
Wayne is working at the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada studying the systematics and ecology of plant-associated mites. He is also studying blood- and tissue-feeding mites associated with birds, as well as insect associated mites
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Julia Mlynarek
Julia is a Research Scientist (field entomology) at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, studying population and community dynamics of insects in major and minor field crops. Her research interests include taxonomy, species interactions and how to manage pests while keeping agroecosystems healthy. More about Julia can be found on her webpage here, and you can follow her on her blog here.
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Meagan McLoskey
Meagan is an environmental science student who has worked in the Arctic on shorebirds, monitoring nesting success/fate and looking at egg mercury contamination. Her research interests include ecotoxicology and how climate change and other stressors will affect species distributions.
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Laura Nagel
Laura is a Program Associate in the Department of Biology at Queen's University (Kingston, Canada). Her research focuses on the role of natural selection during the process of adaptation in wild populations of animals. Website
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Victoria Putinski
Victoria has worked as a researcher at Environment Canada and Carleton University on many different projects, including migratory shorebird success in Nunavut. She currently studies animation at Alqonguin College, and is hoping to one day combine both passions.
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Stacey Robinson
Stacey is a Research Scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada, studying the ecotoxicological effects of contaminants (e.g. pesticides) on non-target organisms. Specifically, she is interested in the combined effects of anthropogenic stressors (contaminants) and natural stressors (parasites) on wildlife health.
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Jennifer Schellinck
Jen is the principal of Sysabee, a consulting company, and a Cognitive Science adjunct at Carleton. Her academic projects typically use computer models of social-biological systems to investigate their complex dynamics. She has a philosophical interest in the role of models in science.
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Will Shim
Will is currently a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin, working in Dr. Dan Bolnick's lab. He specializes in host-parasite interactions at the genetic level and population genetics of hosts and their parasites.
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