Students

CURRENT LAB MEMBERS

Graduate Students

Milly Hong, MSc. Candidate: Indirect effects of lemming cycles on predation risk of sub-arctic nesting shorebirds.  

*Milly is the recipient of the York University C.D. Fowle Scholarship in Ecology 2020. 

Maxime Girard-Simmons,  MES Candidate:  Using camera-traps to estimate coyote activity along an urban-rural gradient.

Victor Olek, MSc. Candidate: Determinants of Migratory Strategies in Juvenile Calidris alpina hudsonia.

My MSc project involves tracking Dunlin on their first migration from their breeding grounds in Northern Canada to their non-breeding grounds along the East coast of the USA using automated radio telemetry. I’m investigating the effects of extrinsic and intrinsic variables on juvenile migratory strategies.  One of my favorite past times includes running/stumbling across the great Canadian tundra to capture (very elusive) Dunlin chicks.

 

Undergraduate Students

Maximilian Hargreaves.  BSc. Candidate.  Thesis: TBA

Arjun Sethi.  BSc. Candidate.  Thesis: TBA

Jennifer To. BSc. Candidate. Thesis: TBA

Maria Vonica. BSc. Candidate. Thesis: TBA

 

PAST LAB MEMBERS

Graduate Students

Brandan Norman, MSc. , 2020. 

THESIS: EFFECTS OF SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION IN RESOURCE AVAILABILITY ON THE GROWTH RATES AND SURVIVAL OF DUNLIN (CALIDRIS ALPINA HUDSONIA) CHICKS

Taylor Brown, MSc.,  2019. 

THESIS: INVESTIGATING INDIRECT ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS ON SPATIAL VARIATION IN NEST PREDATION RISK AND SHOREBIRD NEST SUCCESS IN CHURCHILL, MANITOBA.

*Taylor is currently conducting her PhD. in Biology at Trent University!

Leah Lynn Wright, MSc. 2019.  

THESIS: USING LIGHT-LEVEL GEOLOCATION TO INVESTIGATE THE CARRY-OVER EFFECTS OF LONG-DISTANCE MIGRATION ON THE REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS OF DUNLIN  (CALIDRIS ALPINA HUDSONIA).

* Leah was the recipient of the W. Garfield Weston Award for Northern Research in 2017!   

** Leah won the York University Thesis Prize for the best Masters Thesis in 2019.

Undergraduate Students

Theses

2020 Brian Tang BSc. Thesis: Effects of climate change on shorebird physiology.

2019 Joseph Kassouf, BSc.Thesis: Estimating length-biomass equations for sub-arctic arthropods.

2019 Yuan Joo, BSc. Thesis: Monitoring of Coyote (Canis latrans) populations in Toronto.

2019 Hannah Loo, BSc. Thesis: Effects of environmental stressors on American Robin (Turdus migratorius) populations in urban areas.

2019 Gureet Kang, BSc. Thesis: Reproductive ecology of Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) in urban and rural areas.

2017 Uroosa Khan, BES. Thesis: Effects of climate change on parasite biodiversity in the Arctic.

2016 Nagomi Mukai, BES. Thesis: Assessing Shorebird Vulnerability to Potential Climate-Induced Changes in Food Availability

2016 Victor Olek, BSc. Thesis: Modeling physiological responses to climate-induced changes in food availability under various climate change scenarios. *Recipient of an NSERC USRA (co-supervised by Dr. V. Schoof). 

Research Assistants / Lab Volunteers 

Wings Over Glendon Bird-Window Collision Monitoring Program

Maximilian Hargreaves. Research Practicum and Volunteer Coordinator, 2019.

Olivia Graham, Volunteer Research Assistant, 2019.

Karen Zelkowicz, Volunteer Research Assistant, 2019.

Jennifer To, Volunteer Research Assistant, 2019.

 

Killdeer Monitoring Program

Hannah Loo. Volunteer Research Assistant, 2018.

Yuan Joo. Research Assistant, 2016-2017. Yuan was instrumental in finding our new Killdeer study sites in Toronto, and beginning our Killdeer nest monitoring program in Downsview Park, Toronto.

Mark Labib. Volunteer Research Assistant, 2017. 

Megan Schwegel. Volunteer Research Assistant, 2017.

 

Avian Ecology and Global Change

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