Principal Investigator
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Irene (Rene) Gregory-Eaves
Canada Research Chair in Freshwater Ecology and Global Change Member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists Research Interests: Aquatic Ecology; Global Change; Paleolimnology; Eutrophication; Climate Change; Biodiversity; Lake and Watershed Management; Aquatic Conservation |
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Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Morgan Botrel
Analyzing invasive submerged aquatic vegetation dynamics and consequences for ecosystem services Co-supervisor: Dr. Sabine Hilt, IGB Berlin Personal website: morganbotrel.weebly.com |
Dr. Genevieve D’Avignon
Mosquito eDNA and community science Primary co-supervisor: Dr. Yannick Huot, Université Sherbrooke Co-supervisors: David Walsh (Concordia) & Rene Gregory-Eaves (McGill) |
Graduate Students
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Candice Aulard
PhD Candidate Primary Co-supervisor: Paul del Giorgio, UQAM Project title: Carbon flux to lake sediments within the LakePulse network |
Michelle Cheng
PhD Student Co-supervisor: David Walsh, Concordia University Project title: Using sedimentary DNA to reconstruct ecological dynamics of sockeye salmon nursery lakes over the past two centuries |
Annabelle Fortin-Archambault
PhD Student Primary co-supervisor: Dr. Alison Derry, UQAM Project title: The Use of DNA Metabarcoding to Provide New Information on Metacommunity Structuring in the Face of the Freshwater Biodiversity Crisis |
Miguel Felismino
PhD student Co-supervisor: Dr Nathalie Tufenkji, McGill Chemical Engineering Project Title: The by-products of agricultural plastic mulch and its effects on soil and freshwater systems |
Grace Fedrichuk
MSc student Co-supervisor: Dr Lars Iversen, McGill Project Title: Uncovering the hisroty of macrophyte community composition in southern Quebec lakes using sedimentary DNA |
Maude Lachapelle
PhD candidate Primary co-supervisor: Zofia Taranu, ECCC Project title: Effects of contamination and climate change across contemporary and historical lake aquatic food webs structures |
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Jennifer Pham
PhD Student Co-Supervisors: Beatrix Beisner and Zofia Taranu Project Title: Quantifying biodiversity changes in eastern Canadian lakes of the past 150 years: analyses of subfossil zooplankton |
Zoë Rabinovitch
MSc student Co-supervisor: Dr Alison Derry, UQAM Project Title: Response of zooplankton communities to planned reintroductions of native fish: contextualizing experimental results with long-term time series |
David Zilkey
PhD Candidate Co-supervisor: Dermot Antoniades, Université Laval Project title: Spatiotemporal analysis of environmental change in lake ecosystems across the Canadian landscape |
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Research Assistant:
2019 - present Michelle Gros, MSc |
Undergraduate Students
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Madeleine Aucoin
BSc student: Biology Independent Study |
Jenny MacDonald
BSc student: Biology Independent Study |
Former students, fellows, and projects
Postdoctoral Fellows:
Dr. Allison M. Roth
Allison is now PDF at the University of Missouri - Columbia
Dr. Marie-Eve Monchamp
Marie-Eve is now a Forensics Specialist for Sûreté du Québec
Dr. Katherine T. Griffiths
Katie was a Research associate following her PDF in the lab and is now a research professional with Yannick Huot
Dr. Mitchell Kay
Mitchell is now a PDF at Brock University
Dr. Marieke Beaulieu
Marieke is now a PDF at the Arctic University in Norway
Dr. Felipe Perez-Jvostov
Felipe now works for the Office of the VP at McGill in the Research and Innovation Office.
Dr. Katrine Turgeon
Katrine is now an Assistant Professor at UQO.
Dr. Alex Latzka
Alex is now a Biologist for Wisconsin DNR.
Dr. Josie Iacarella
Josie is now a Research Associate, DFO (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
Dr. Cristian Correa Guzman
Cristian is now an Adjunct Professor at Instituto de Conservación Biodiversidad y Territorio, Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Limnológicas, Universidad Austral de Chile
Dr. Daniel Selbie
Daniel is now a Biologist at DFO & Adjunct at SFU & U. Fraser Valley
Dr. Bronwyn Keatley
McGill Tomlinson fellow awardee, co-supervised with Dr. E. Bennett. Bronwyn was a Senior Science Advisor with the Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Dr. Emilie Saulnier-Talbot
FQRNT PDF awardee, co-supervised with Dr. L. Chapman. Emilie is now an Assistant Professor at U Laval.
Dr. Guangjie Chen
Guangjie is now a Full Professor at the Lake Ecology and Global Change Laboratory, School of Tourism and Geography, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
Ph.D. Students:
Dr Rebecca Garner
Comparative paleogenetics of comtenporary and preindustrial sediments from Canadian lakes. Primary supervisor: David Walsh. Rebecca is now doing a postdoc at University of California Berkeley.
Dr. Tara Tapics
L'écologie des transformations : les changements de taille et formation de kystes et la période hivernale du phytoplancton observé dans la Lac Montjoie (QC) à l’aide d’un cytomètre en flux à prise d’images. Co-supervisor : Yannick Huot.
Dr. Genevieve D'Avignon
The fate of microplastics in aquatic food webs. Co-supervisor: Anthony Ricciardi.
Dr. Paul Mackeigan
The distribution and predictors of cyanobacteria and their toxins across a wide range of Canadian lakes. Co-supervisor: Beatrix Beisner. Paul now works as a Physical Scientist for ECCC
Dr. Alexandre Baud
PhD Thesis: Anthropogenic development over the last ~200 years leaves physical and geochemical imprints in lake sediment records. Co-supervisor: Pierre Francus. Alex is now an environmental consultant w ERM
Dr. Cindy Paquette
PhD Thesis: Facteurs affectant la structure et la fonction des communautés de zooplancton sous une large échelle spatiale et temporelle à travers le Canada. Cindy is now a PDF at UQAM
Dr. Joanna Gauthier
PhD Thesis: Environmental DNA preserved in lake sediments: Analyses from sockeye nursery lakes. Co-supervisor: Dr David Walsh. Joanna is now a PDF in Florida
Dr. Amanda Winegardner
PhD Thesis: Aquatic biodiversity patterns along gradients of multiple stressors and disturbance histories: Integration of paleoecology and molecular techniques. Co-supervisor: Dr. Beatrix Beisner. Amanda is now working as Senior Science Advisor, DFO (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
Dr. Jesse Vermaire
PhD Thesis: Reconstructing macrophyte biomass dynamics in temperate lakes of northeastern North America using paleolimnology. Jesse is now Associate Professor in the Institute of Environmental Science at Carleton University.
Dr. Zofia Taranu
PhD Thesis: Historical and contemporary drivers of cyanobacterial dynamics: regional and global perspectives. Zofia is now a Research Scientist, Environment & Climate Change Canada
M.Sc. Students:
Sufyan Mizra - Mapping co-occurrence of terrestrial and lake biodiversity hotspots: synergies for conservation. Co-supervisor: Yannick Huot. Sufyan is now a biologist at the Ecomusee in Montreal.
Jade Dormoy-Boulanger - MSc thesis. Modeling of cyanobacteria communities in the Pike River and considering scenarios of climate change over the next 50 years. Jade is now a PhD student at UQTR.
Alex Crew - MSc thesis. Quantifying microplastic dynamics and distributions in the St Lawrence River. Alexandre is currently at Health Canada
Michelle Gros - MSc thesis. Food web responses to winter water level drawdowns in temperate reservoirs. Michelle is currently working as a research assistant in the Gregory-Eaves Lab.
Jennifer Barrow - MSc thesis. Functional and taxonomic phytoplankton community responses to macrophyte abundance and nutrient loading in experimental ponds. Jennifer is currently teaching in Montreal schools and CEGEPs.
Leanne Elchyshyn - MSc thesis. Evaluating the impacts of damming and water level drawdowns: a paleolimnological study of long-term water quality trends in reservoirs. Leanne is currently working as an Environmental Consultant with ERM
Gabrielle Trottier - MSc thesis: Evaluating the impacts of winter drawdown on macroinvertebrate communities within the context of localized environmental conditions. Co-supervisor: Christian Nozais, UQAR. Gabrielle is now working on her PhD at Ecole Polytechnique under the supervision of Manuele Margni.
Jacob Ziegler - MSc thesis is entitled: Littoral structure as a driver of food chain length in lakes. Jacob has received his PhD at McGill University with Chris Solomon and is now a biologist with DFO.
Marieke Beaulieu - MSc thesis: Cyanobacteria in North America: Modelling across nutrient and temperature gradients. Co-supervisor: France Pick, Univeristy of Ottawa. Marieke is now a PDF in Norway.
Morgan Botrel - MSc thesis: Caractérisation du cycle et des sources d'azote dans les lacs tempérés par l'utilisation d'isotopes stables. Co-supervisor: Roxane Maranger, Université de Montréal. Morgan is now a PDF with Roxane Maranger, Université de Montréal
Katherine Velghe - MSc thesis: Quantifying biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems: evaluating the causes for congruent patterns across trophic levels. Katherine is now a research technician at the GRIL - UQAM.
Marie-Helene Greffard - MSc thesis: Chironomids as indicators of environmental change in northeastern North American shallow lakes. Marie-Helene is now a freelance consultant in biology.
Zofia Taranu - MSc thesis: Tracking changes in water quality due to catchment land-use and lake morphometry across spatial and temporal scales. Zofia completed her PhD in my lab and is now Zofia is now a Research Scientist, Environment & Climate Change Canada
B.Sc. Honours Students:
Dana Guenette - BScH: Effects of lake browning and eutrophication on the composition of Lac Hertel’s zooplankton community. Co-supervisor Zofia Taranu
Jasper Zarkower - BScH Thesis: Examining the dynamics and drivers of mercury in over 200 years in sediment records from low-impact Canadian lakes
Alyssa Bourgeois - BScH thesis: Seasonal changes in Cultus Lake’s subfossil zooplankton assemblages: A sediment trap study. Alyssa is now a MSc student at U Alberta.
Shayne Levoy - BScH thesis: Shifting of stable states in Eastern Townships lakes along an eutrophication gradient.
Alexandra Noel - BScH thesis: Diatom community responses to multiple stressors in Lac Dauriat, Quebec
Natasha Salter - B.Sc. thesis: The effects of mining contaminants and sewage on Cladoceran communities of subarctic Quebec. Natasha is a Biologist at DFO.
Emmanuelle Chretien - BScH thesis: The effect of eutrophication on food chain length in aquatic invertebrates: a field survey. Emmanuelle is now professor at UQAR
Holly Stewart - BScH thesis: Zooplankton community responses to salmonid introductions in Alpine lakes: A case study of Lone Lake.
Saskia Nowicki - BScH thesis: Regulatory factors of eutrophication in small, temperate lakes: a study of five eastern Quebec lakes on a total phosphorus gradient. Saskia is now doing her PhD at Oxford University.
Katherine Velghe - BScH thesis: Long-term ecological dynamics in sockeye salmon nursery lakes.
Marc Richard-Albert - BScH thesis: Assessing the response of Cladocera to nutrients and related ecological changes over spatial and temporal scales. Marc is now a physician.
Lauren McGruthers - BScH thesis: Testing the Feasibility of Tracking an Alewife-Derived Nutrient Signal in Lakes from Coastal Maine, U.S.A. Lauren is now a physician.
Independent Study Students:
Autumn Pereira, 2022: Investigating strain-level cyanobacterial community composition in bloom-impacted lakes, Primary Co-supervisor: Jesse Shapiro
Tessa Rehill, 2022: Assessing the state of genetic resources for inland water taxa in Canada
Joe Sanchez Schacht, 2022: Regional variation in water quality across Canada
Jennifer Pham, 2021 : Synthesizing trends in lake health parametres from sediment cores across the Boreal zone
Ben Ralston Daniel, 2021 (co-supervisor: Zofia Taranu, ECCC): Responses of zooplankton communities to a factorial DOC and nutrient mesocosm experiment
Michelle Cheng - 6 credit undergraduate project. Project title: Applying paleolimnological tools to reconstruct the environmental history: A case study from Lac des Chicots, Quebec, Canada. Michelle is now a MSc student a Queen's University.
Jenna Dilworth - 6 credit undergraduate project & SURA awardee. Project title: Examining environmental DNA as a tool for quantifying diatoms in lake sediments. Jenna is a MSc student at Miami U.
Michelle Gros - BSc 6 credit independent study. Project title: Food web responses to winter water level drawdowns in temperate reservoirs. Michelle is now research assistant in my lab.
Rachel Giles - BSc, 9 credit independent study & McGill SURA. Project title: Zooplankton community responses to a regime change experiment. Rachel is now a PhD student at University of Toronto.
Hana Moidu - BSc 9 credit independent study 2016: The paleolimnology of Colour Lake, Axel Heiberg. Hana went on to do a MSc at UC Berkeley.
Allene Kennedy - BSc 9 credit independent study 2016: Examining the effect of different preservation techniques on eDNA retrieved from sediment traps
Carolyn Duthie - BSc 6 credit independent study 2015: Diatom functional diversity across two ecoregions in the conterminous United States. Carolyne went on to do a MSc student at York U.
Jessica Lang - BSc 3 credit independent study 2015: Quantifying the Relationship between Macroinvertebrate Biomass and Abundance in temperate Freshwaters of Northeastern North America. Jessica went on to do a MSc at U. Manitoba.
Laura Lyon - BSc 3 credit independent study 2015: Quantifying changes in sedimentation: The impacts of damming. Laura went on to do a MSc at McGill.
Melanie Massey - Environmental and morphometric factors affecting deposition of organic material in lakes (3 credit project)
Holly Embke - The effects of varying water level drawdown on macroinvertebrate communities. 6 credit project. Holly is now a PhD student at U Wisconsin - Madison.
Matt Moccia - Does ephippium length predict planktivory pressure in Quebec lakes? 6 credit project. Matt is a Med student at U. Florida
Jordanne Gray - Cell volume approximation as a measure of cyanobacteria biomass. 3 credit project. Jordanne is a Dental student at Columbia U.
Guillaume Pelletier – Effect of primary productivity on invertebrate food chain length in shallow lakes. 9 credit project. Guillaume is a Medical student at U. Montreal
Katrina Adams – A paleolimnological study of Baptiste Lake, Alberta. 6 credit project. Katrina is now a MSc student at Guelph U.
Amy Blaser – Water is life – a public outreach display funded by the McGill Sustainability Project. 3 credit project.
Tanya Tran – Testing paleolimnological indices of fish predation pressure. 3 credit project. Tanya is a MSc student at U Vic.
Mary Schroeder - Vegetation change and water quality. 6 credit project.
Tyler Hunt - Sediment diatom composition of Green Bay, Lake Memphremagog and the application of a transfer function to infer past environmental conditions. 6 credit project. Tyler is working in the aerospace sector.
Claire Moore-Gibbons – A paleo-experimental test of the response of chironomids to changes in hypolimnetic oxygen: A case study from Amisk Lake, Alberta. 6 credit project. Claire is an environmental consultant.
Soren Brothers - A multi-scale analysis of factors affecting changes in lacustrine sedimentation rates. 9 credit project. Soren is an Assistant Professor at Utah State University.
Jessica Hawryshyn - Within-lake variability in chironomid sub-fossil assemblages in southern Ontario: a multiple-core study. 3 credit project. Jessica is a fisheries biologist in BC.
Dr. Allison M. Roth
Allison is now PDF at the University of Missouri - Columbia
Dr. Marie-Eve Monchamp
Marie-Eve is now a Forensics Specialist for Sûreté du Québec
Dr. Katherine T. Griffiths
Katie was a Research associate following her PDF in the lab and is now a research professional with Yannick Huot
Dr. Mitchell Kay
Mitchell is now a PDF at Brock University
Dr. Marieke Beaulieu
Marieke is now a PDF at the Arctic University in Norway
Dr. Felipe Perez-Jvostov
Felipe now works for the Office of the VP at McGill in the Research and Innovation Office.
Dr. Katrine Turgeon
Katrine is now an Assistant Professor at UQO.
Dr. Alex Latzka
Alex is now a Biologist for Wisconsin DNR.
Dr. Josie Iacarella
Josie is now a Research Associate, DFO (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
Dr. Cristian Correa Guzman
Cristian is now an Adjunct Professor at Instituto de Conservación Biodiversidad y Territorio, Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Limnológicas, Universidad Austral de Chile
Dr. Daniel Selbie
Daniel is now a Biologist at DFO & Adjunct at SFU & U. Fraser Valley
Dr. Bronwyn Keatley
McGill Tomlinson fellow awardee, co-supervised with Dr. E. Bennett. Bronwyn was a Senior Science Advisor with the Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Dr. Emilie Saulnier-Talbot
FQRNT PDF awardee, co-supervised with Dr. L. Chapman. Emilie is now an Assistant Professor at U Laval.
Dr. Guangjie Chen
Guangjie is now a Full Professor at the Lake Ecology and Global Change Laboratory, School of Tourism and Geography, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan, China
Ph.D. Students:
Dr Rebecca Garner
Comparative paleogenetics of comtenporary and preindustrial sediments from Canadian lakes. Primary supervisor: David Walsh. Rebecca is now doing a postdoc at University of California Berkeley.
Dr. Tara Tapics
L'écologie des transformations : les changements de taille et formation de kystes et la période hivernale du phytoplancton observé dans la Lac Montjoie (QC) à l’aide d’un cytomètre en flux à prise d’images. Co-supervisor : Yannick Huot.
Dr. Genevieve D'Avignon
The fate of microplastics in aquatic food webs. Co-supervisor: Anthony Ricciardi.
Dr. Paul Mackeigan
The distribution and predictors of cyanobacteria and their toxins across a wide range of Canadian lakes. Co-supervisor: Beatrix Beisner. Paul now works as a Physical Scientist for ECCC
Dr. Alexandre Baud
PhD Thesis: Anthropogenic development over the last ~200 years leaves physical and geochemical imprints in lake sediment records. Co-supervisor: Pierre Francus. Alex is now an environmental consultant w ERM
Dr. Cindy Paquette
PhD Thesis: Facteurs affectant la structure et la fonction des communautés de zooplancton sous une large échelle spatiale et temporelle à travers le Canada. Cindy is now a PDF at UQAM
Dr. Joanna Gauthier
PhD Thesis: Environmental DNA preserved in lake sediments: Analyses from sockeye nursery lakes. Co-supervisor: Dr David Walsh. Joanna is now a PDF in Florida
Dr. Amanda Winegardner
PhD Thesis: Aquatic biodiversity patterns along gradients of multiple stressors and disturbance histories: Integration of paleoecology and molecular techniques. Co-supervisor: Dr. Beatrix Beisner. Amanda is now working as Senior Science Advisor, DFO (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
Dr. Jesse Vermaire
PhD Thesis: Reconstructing macrophyte biomass dynamics in temperate lakes of northeastern North America using paleolimnology. Jesse is now Associate Professor in the Institute of Environmental Science at Carleton University.
Dr. Zofia Taranu
PhD Thesis: Historical and contemporary drivers of cyanobacterial dynamics: regional and global perspectives. Zofia is now a Research Scientist, Environment & Climate Change Canada
M.Sc. Students:
Sufyan Mizra - Mapping co-occurrence of terrestrial and lake biodiversity hotspots: synergies for conservation. Co-supervisor: Yannick Huot. Sufyan is now a biologist at the Ecomusee in Montreal.
Jade Dormoy-Boulanger - MSc thesis. Modeling of cyanobacteria communities in the Pike River and considering scenarios of climate change over the next 50 years. Jade is now a PhD student at UQTR.
Alex Crew - MSc thesis. Quantifying microplastic dynamics and distributions in the St Lawrence River. Alexandre is currently at Health Canada
Michelle Gros - MSc thesis. Food web responses to winter water level drawdowns in temperate reservoirs. Michelle is currently working as a research assistant in the Gregory-Eaves Lab.
Jennifer Barrow - MSc thesis. Functional and taxonomic phytoplankton community responses to macrophyte abundance and nutrient loading in experimental ponds. Jennifer is currently teaching in Montreal schools and CEGEPs.
Leanne Elchyshyn - MSc thesis. Evaluating the impacts of damming and water level drawdowns: a paleolimnological study of long-term water quality trends in reservoirs. Leanne is currently working as an Environmental Consultant with ERM
Gabrielle Trottier - MSc thesis: Evaluating the impacts of winter drawdown on macroinvertebrate communities within the context of localized environmental conditions. Co-supervisor: Christian Nozais, UQAR. Gabrielle is now working on her PhD at Ecole Polytechnique under the supervision of Manuele Margni.
Jacob Ziegler - MSc thesis is entitled: Littoral structure as a driver of food chain length in lakes. Jacob has received his PhD at McGill University with Chris Solomon and is now a biologist with DFO.
Marieke Beaulieu - MSc thesis: Cyanobacteria in North America: Modelling across nutrient and temperature gradients. Co-supervisor: France Pick, Univeristy of Ottawa. Marieke is now a PDF in Norway.
Morgan Botrel - MSc thesis: Caractérisation du cycle et des sources d'azote dans les lacs tempérés par l'utilisation d'isotopes stables. Co-supervisor: Roxane Maranger, Université de Montréal. Morgan is now a PDF with Roxane Maranger, Université de Montréal
Katherine Velghe - MSc thesis: Quantifying biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems: evaluating the causes for congruent patterns across trophic levels. Katherine is now a research technician at the GRIL - UQAM.
Marie-Helene Greffard - MSc thesis: Chironomids as indicators of environmental change in northeastern North American shallow lakes. Marie-Helene is now a freelance consultant in biology.
Zofia Taranu - MSc thesis: Tracking changes in water quality due to catchment land-use and lake morphometry across spatial and temporal scales. Zofia completed her PhD in my lab and is now Zofia is now a Research Scientist, Environment & Climate Change Canada
B.Sc. Honours Students:
Dana Guenette - BScH: Effects of lake browning and eutrophication on the composition of Lac Hertel’s zooplankton community. Co-supervisor Zofia Taranu
Jasper Zarkower - BScH Thesis: Examining the dynamics and drivers of mercury in over 200 years in sediment records from low-impact Canadian lakes
Alyssa Bourgeois - BScH thesis: Seasonal changes in Cultus Lake’s subfossil zooplankton assemblages: A sediment trap study. Alyssa is now a MSc student at U Alberta.
Shayne Levoy - BScH thesis: Shifting of stable states in Eastern Townships lakes along an eutrophication gradient.
Alexandra Noel - BScH thesis: Diatom community responses to multiple stressors in Lac Dauriat, Quebec
Natasha Salter - B.Sc. thesis: The effects of mining contaminants and sewage on Cladoceran communities of subarctic Quebec. Natasha is a Biologist at DFO.
Emmanuelle Chretien - BScH thesis: The effect of eutrophication on food chain length in aquatic invertebrates: a field survey. Emmanuelle is now professor at UQAR
Holly Stewart - BScH thesis: Zooplankton community responses to salmonid introductions in Alpine lakes: A case study of Lone Lake.
Saskia Nowicki - BScH thesis: Regulatory factors of eutrophication in small, temperate lakes: a study of five eastern Quebec lakes on a total phosphorus gradient. Saskia is now doing her PhD at Oxford University.
Katherine Velghe - BScH thesis: Long-term ecological dynamics in sockeye salmon nursery lakes.
Marc Richard-Albert - BScH thesis: Assessing the response of Cladocera to nutrients and related ecological changes over spatial and temporal scales. Marc is now a physician.
Lauren McGruthers - BScH thesis: Testing the Feasibility of Tracking an Alewife-Derived Nutrient Signal in Lakes from Coastal Maine, U.S.A. Lauren is now a physician.
Independent Study Students:
Autumn Pereira, 2022: Investigating strain-level cyanobacterial community composition in bloom-impacted lakes, Primary Co-supervisor: Jesse Shapiro
Tessa Rehill, 2022: Assessing the state of genetic resources for inland water taxa in Canada
Joe Sanchez Schacht, 2022: Regional variation in water quality across Canada
Jennifer Pham, 2021 : Synthesizing trends in lake health parametres from sediment cores across the Boreal zone
Ben Ralston Daniel, 2021 (co-supervisor: Zofia Taranu, ECCC): Responses of zooplankton communities to a factorial DOC and nutrient mesocosm experiment
Michelle Cheng - 6 credit undergraduate project. Project title: Applying paleolimnological tools to reconstruct the environmental history: A case study from Lac des Chicots, Quebec, Canada. Michelle is now a MSc student a Queen's University.
Jenna Dilworth - 6 credit undergraduate project & SURA awardee. Project title: Examining environmental DNA as a tool for quantifying diatoms in lake sediments. Jenna is a MSc student at Miami U.
Michelle Gros - BSc 6 credit independent study. Project title: Food web responses to winter water level drawdowns in temperate reservoirs. Michelle is now research assistant in my lab.
Rachel Giles - BSc, 9 credit independent study & McGill SURA. Project title: Zooplankton community responses to a regime change experiment. Rachel is now a PhD student at University of Toronto.
Hana Moidu - BSc 9 credit independent study 2016: The paleolimnology of Colour Lake, Axel Heiberg. Hana went on to do a MSc at UC Berkeley.
Allene Kennedy - BSc 9 credit independent study 2016: Examining the effect of different preservation techniques on eDNA retrieved from sediment traps
Carolyn Duthie - BSc 6 credit independent study 2015: Diatom functional diversity across two ecoregions in the conterminous United States. Carolyne went on to do a MSc student at York U.
Jessica Lang - BSc 3 credit independent study 2015: Quantifying the Relationship between Macroinvertebrate Biomass and Abundance in temperate Freshwaters of Northeastern North America. Jessica went on to do a MSc at U. Manitoba.
Laura Lyon - BSc 3 credit independent study 2015: Quantifying changes in sedimentation: The impacts of damming. Laura went on to do a MSc at McGill.
Melanie Massey - Environmental and morphometric factors affecting deposition of organic material in lakes (3 credit project)
Holly Embke - The effects of varying water level drawdown on macroinvertebrate communities. 6 credit project. Holly is now a PhD student at U Wisconsin - Madison.
Matt Moccia - Does ephippium length predict planktivory pressure in Quebec lakes? 6 credit project. Matt is a Med student at U. Florida
Jordanne Gray - Cell volume approximation as a measure of cyanobacteria biomass. 3 credit project. Jordanne is a Dental student at Columbia U.
Guillaume Pelletier – Effect of primary productivity on invertebrate food chain length in shallow lakes. 9 credit project. Guillaume is a Medical student at U. Montreal
Katrina Adams – A paleolimnological study of Baptiste Lake, Alberta. 6 credit project. Katrina is now a MSc student at Guelph U.
Amy Blaser – Water is life – a public outreach display funded by the McGill Sustainability Project. 3 credit project.
Tanya Tran – Testing paleolimnological indices of fish predation pressure. 3 credit project. Tanya is a MSc student at U Vic.
Mary Schroeder - Vegetation change and water quality. 6 credit project.
Tyler Hunt - Sediment diatom composition of Green Bay, Lake Memphremagog and the application of a transfer function to infer past environmental conditions. 6 credit project. Tyler is working in the aerospace sector.
Claire Moore-Gibbons – A paleo-experimental test of the response of chironomids to changes in hypolimnetic oxygen: A case study from Amisk Lake, Alberta. 6 credit project. Claire is an environmental consultant.
Soren Brothers - A multi-scale analysis of factors affecting changes in lacustrine sedimentation rates. 9 credit project. Soren is an Assistant Professor at Utah State University.
Jessica Hawryshyn - Within-lake variability in chironomid sub-fossil assemblages in southern Ontario: a multiple-core study. 3 credit project. Jessica is a fisheries biologist in BC.
