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Lab Alumni

We appreciate all the work our alumni have done to get us where we are today

Photo: Valesca de Groot

Post-Doctoral Projects

Dr. Jasmin Schuster

2022-2023

University of Victoria / Hakai Institute

Research Focus:

State changes in rocky reef systems

Dr. Mairi Miller-Meehan

2023-2023

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Research Focus:

Coupling socio-cultural and biophysical variables to manage coastal and marine resources in Inuit Nunatsiavut

Dr. Marta Miatta

2022-2023

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Research Focus:

Developing ecosystem indicators to inform management decisions for northern marine ecosystems in the context of a changing ocean

Dr. Jackson Chu

2018-2020

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Research Focus:

Developing an ecophysiological framework for predicting the response of cold-water corals and sponges to habitat variability

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phd Projects

Dr. Jasmin Schuster

2018-2023

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Research Focus:

The role of kelp and urchin dynamics in changing trait diversity and assemblage structure of shallow marine communities

Dr. Ella McKnight

2022

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

The influence of environmental variability on the ecological performance of native and non-native marine organisms.

Dr. Abbie Chapman

2015-2018

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

A trait-based approach to the biodiversity of deep-sea hydrothermal-vent ecosystems. 

Dr. Murray Duncan

2017-2018

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

A physiological study on a commercial reef fish to quantify the relationship between exploitation and climate change resilience.

Dr. Conor Waldock

2015-2019

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

Ecological Assemblages in a Warming Climate: Addressing Knowledge Gaps in the Role of Thermal Heterogeneity and Realised Niches at a Global Scale

Dr. Robert Cooke

2015-2019

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

Analyzing the ecological diversity of the world's mammals and birds

masters and integrated masters Projects

Valesca de Groot

2019-2023

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Research Focus:

 

The otolith-isotope method: an opportunity to examine field metabolic
rate as an in situ indicator of climate change within and across juvenile Atlantic cod populations (Gadus morhua)

Brandy Biggar

2018-2021

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Research Focus:

 

The thermal biology and ecology of Carcinus maenas as a tool for conservation, mitigation, and invasion predictions

Cerren Richards

2018-2020

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Loïc Sanchez

2020

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Research Focus:

 

Local Contributions to Beta-Diversity inside and outside MPAs

Guillemette Rident

2016-2017

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

 

Predicting changes in North Atlantic Right Whale populations under ocean warming

Olli McLaren-Roberts

2016-2017

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

 

Patterns of macrofaunal diversity and the trophic structure of coastal reef communities off the southern coast of Mozambique

Sam Hickling

2016-2017

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

 

Response of cephalopods to protection from fishing

Wes Wealand

2016-2017

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

 

Role of temperature and tubeworm bushes in habitat selection by the hydrothermal vent whelk over three years, Buccinum thermophillum

Laura Dalton

2016-2017

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

Relationship between temperature and habitat selection in hot vent limpets from Endeavour, Juan de Fuca Ridge

John Bald

2015-2016

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

Warming seas and fishing pressure: o what extent has the fish community structure changed within the Celtic Sea? 

Emma Bolton

2015-2016

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

Effect of temperature on the temporal and spatial distribution of the zoarcid fish, Pachycara cf gymninium at the Main Endeavor Site

Sam Farmer

2015-2016

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

The impacts of climate change and marine reserves on community stability in Maria Island, Tasmania

Sophie Hare

2015-2016

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

Effect of salinity and hypoxia on the upper thermal limit of the Atlantic ditch shrimp Palaemonetes varians

Tom Hogan

2015-2016

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

Assessing habitat and lifestyle influences on the relative success of deep-sea and shallow water benthic fauna

Joana Brzeska

2015-2016

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

Variation in the environmental drivers of coral bleaching across ecoregions

Alex Cartwright

2015-2016

Peter Reeves

2014-2015

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

 

Assessing the associated stresses of terrestrial inputs on Coral Bleaching

Research Focus:

Predicting Global Richness of Coral Reef Fish Assemblages Using Island Biogeography Models

Sarina Khaira

2014-2015

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

Heat tolerance in ectothermic animals with high invasion potential

Caitlin Frankish

2014-2015

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

Seabirds as vectors: a meta-ecosystem model

Ben Pearce

2014-2015

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

Effects of latitudinal range on heat escape behaviour of marine invertebrates

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UndergraDUAte honours projects & Directed studies projects

Matt Bakken

2023-2024

University of Victoria

Research Focus:

​​Estimating the biomass inferred from photogrammetrical reconstruction of Remote Operated Vehicles and towsled imagery of Puy des Folles hydrothermal vent communities.

Reid Adams

2023-2024

University of Victoria

Research Focus:

Investigating the optimal use of drones for monitoring and mitigating disturbances to breeding seabird populations in the Arctic, in collaboration with the Nunatsiavut government and local community members as part of the broader Sustainable Nunatsiavut Futures project.

Viola Watts

2023-2024

University of Victoria

Research Focus:

Faunal characterization of Puy des Folles, EMARK and Grappe Deux vent fields on the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Brooke Hackett

2023-2024

University of Victoria

Research Focus:

Investigating the impacts of sequential thermal and salinity stressors on a common intertidal copepod species, Tigriopus californicus.​

Emily Fricska

2023-2024

University of Victoria

Research Focus:

Examining how the spatial complexity of coral reef systems relates to coral diversity and cover across multiple reef sites in the Pacific Ocean.

Mara Bohm

2023-2024

University of Victoria

Research Focus:

Pycnopodia recovery in Barkley Sound, and its impacts on biodiversity.

Rebecca Krohman

2022-2023

University of Victoria

Jadyn Patton

2022

University of Victoria

Research Focus:

Response of high intertidal copepods to co-occuring stressors.

Research Focus:

Directed studies student working on the MARS project.

Darren Li Shing Hiung

2020-2021

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Research Focus:

Spatiotemporal ocean temperature variation revealed by an array of fixed in-situ instruments. 

Megan Warren

2018-2019

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Research Focus:

Reproductive biology of Alvinoconcha hessleri from the Marina backarc

Cameron Mallion

2017

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

Temperature dependent activity in hydrothermal vent sulphide worms

Cerren Richards

2017

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

Manx shearwater rafting behaviour around Skomer Island

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research assistants

Sydney Dixon

2022-2023

University of Victoria

Role:

Assisting on several different research projects within the lab spanning from the Indo-Pacific to offshore British Columbia. 

Emma Wells

2019

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Role:

 

Assisting with species collections.

Élie Pellerin

2019

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Role:

 

Digitalising dive logs to create a temperature time series dataset. 

Fatemeh Tavafi

2020-2021

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Role:

 

Assisting with machine learning research.

Evgeni (Eugueni) Matveev

2020-2021

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Role:

 

Reviewing researcher's StoryTIME  stories for BioTIME

P Reeves

2014-2015

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

Predicting Global Richness of Coral Reef Fish Assemblages Using Island Biogeography Models

S Khaira

2014-2015

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

Heat tolerance in ectothermic animals with high invasion potential

C Frankish

2014-2015

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

Seabirds as vectors: a meta-ecosystem model

B Pearce

2014-2015

University of Southampton

Research Focus:

Effects of latitudinal range on heat escape behaviour of marine invertebrates

B Conradi

2018

University of Dublin

Research Focus:

Assessing the contribution of various trophic groups to spatial beta diversity in marine protected areas and adjacent fished areas

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