Research Interests: 

Community ecology, functional ecology, biodiversity patterns, deep sea, chemosynthetic-based habitats

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Research Focus:

Developing a biological trait database for the Tang.ɢwan – ḥačxwiqak – Tsig̱is offshore Pacific Area of Interest, Canada.

Assessing the functional diversity and biogeography of deep-sea chemosynthetic-based communities at the global scale. 

Research Interests: 

Seabird ecology, macroecology, conservation, ecological energetics

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Thesis Focus:

​Environmental constraints on seabird biodiversity hotspots in Atlantic Canada and Inuit Nunangat

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Research Interests: 

Biodiversity, benthic ecology, community change, marine invertebrates

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Thesis Focus:

Ecosystem functioning in nearshore benthic environments: The roles of food quality and quantity.

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Research Interests: 

Gastropod morphology, evolutionary developmental biology, ecology, conservation

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Thesis Focus:

Symbiosis and energetics of a hydrothermal vent snail across extreme environmental gradients.

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Research Interests: 

Marine Community Ecology, Multiple Stressors, Foundational Species, Quantitative Biology

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Thesis Focus:

Interactive effects of large-scale disturbances as drivers of diversity and change in marine invertebrate communities.

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Research Interests: 

Sea turtle conservation, microplastics, multiple stressors

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Thesis Focus:

Quantifying microplastic and climate change interactions on the hatching success of leatherback sea turtles in Costa Rica

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Research Interests: 

Deep sea ecology, seamount communities, oxygen minimum zones, taxonomy and systematics

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Thesis Focus:

Spatial and temporal analyses of long-term monitoring sites on seamounts within the Offshore Pacific Bioregion, Canada

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Research Interests: 

Microbial ecology, climate change stressors, adaptation, marine invertebrates

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Thesis Focus:

Using probiotics to improve resiliency to climate stressors and predicting population responses to multi-stressor events in a model marine organism, the Pacific oyster

Research Interests: 

Deep-sea exploration, microbiology, blue economy, extreme environments, seabed mining, seafloor modelling/mapping.

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Thesis Focus:

Evaluating microbial community structure and genetic resource potential along a gradient from active hydrothermal vents to extinct, eroding mineral deposits. This will inform current discussions about biodiversity and ecosystem function loss that may result from deep-sea mining of sulphides at hydrothermal sites

Research Interests: 

Marine invertebrates, coral reef ecology, behavioural ecology, conservation, climate change adaptation

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Thesis Focus:

Modelling the impact of COVID-19 mobility restrictions on coastal water quality in the Indo-Pacific and the interaction between water quality and crown-of-thorns sea star (Acanthaster planci) outbreaks

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Research Interests: 

Deep-sea conservation ecology, seamount systems, benthic macroinvertebrates, fish biology & behaviour

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Thesis Focus:

Identifying hotspots of invertebrate diversity in seamount systems and predicting impacts of climate change on diversity trends. 

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Research Interests: 

Climate change, marine community ecology, sustainable fisheries

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Thesis Focus:

Climate change impacts on sub-arctic marine biota

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Research Interests: 

Ecophysiology, marine invertebrates, climate change, conservation

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Thesis Focus:

Growth, physiological, and genomic responses of juvenile Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) to coinciding climate stressors

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Research Interests: 

Vultures, conservation, ecology, migration, climate change

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Thesis Focus:

Understanding Turkey Vulture ecology at the northern extent of their range. Identifying weather/climate variables required for oceanic crossing made by Turkey Vultures migrating to Vancouver Island.

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Research Interests: 

Ecophysiology, climate change, marine invertebrates, rocky intertidal, food web ecology

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Thesis Focus:

Investigating the impacts of multiple climatic stressors on the keystone predator Pisaster ochraceus (Ochre sea star).

Research Interests: 

Coastal ecology, marine-terrestrial ecological interactions, community ecology, conservation.

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Thesis Focus:

Terrestrial mammal predation in intertidal communities.

Research Interests: 

Fisheries ecology, multiple stressors, rocky intertidal foodwebs and ecology

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Thesis Focus:

Investigating the fine scale climactic characteristics and drivers of Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) spawning habitat selection. 

Research Interests: 

Ecophysiology, genomics, kelp forest ecology, marine invertebrates, climate change

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Thesis Focus:

The impacts of marine heatwaves and hypoxia on gene expression in the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) and the development of monitoring and mitigation tools for shellfish aquaculture. 

Research Interests: 

Seabird ecology, conservation, arctic ecosystems

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Thesis 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.

Research Interests: 

Rocky intertidal, coral reef ecology, multiple stressors, marine and coastal conservation

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Thesis Focus:

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

Research Interests: 

Marine ecology, oceanography, biodiversity patterns and climate change.
 

Thesis Focus:

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

Research Interests: 

Human dimensions of ocean conservation, invasive species, endangered species recovery

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Thesis Focus:

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

Research Interests: 

Community ecology, biodiversity patterns, marine-terrestrial interactions, conservation.

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Thesis Focus:

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

Research Interests: 

Marine community ecology, statistical analysis and modeling, marine invertebrates.
 

Thesis Focus:

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