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
Sarina Khaira
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
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
Brittney 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
UndergraDUAte honours projects
Rebecca Krohman
2022-2023
University of Victoria
Research Focus:
esponse of high intertidal copepods to co-occuring stressors.
Jadyn Patton
2022
University of Victoria
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
Cerren Richards
2017
University of Southampton
Research Focus:
Temperature dependent activity in hydrothermal vent sulphide worms
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