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
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
Research Focus:
The link between seabird traits and anthropogenic threats with implications for conservation
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
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
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
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