Naturally curious and keeping my feet off concrete.
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About me
From a young age I took great interest in all things that creep, crawl, slither, and slime. I developed a fascination with dinosaurs and soon defaulted to what I (erroneously) viewed as their closest living relatives: reptiles and amphibians. Today, my passion and research interests are at the intersection of natural history, herpetology, conservation science, and evolutionary ecology. My research is currently based at the Algonquin Wildlife Research Station where I focus on salamander and turtle biology and conservation.. I am a strong proponent of scientific research, evidence-based policy, and stewardship programming to raise public awareness for and engagement with conservation. |
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Academic background
PhD, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and the School of the Environment (2023)
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. Supervisor: N Rollinson.
Dissertation: Ecology and sensitivity to environmental change of a northern population of Spotted Salamander, Ambystoma maculatum
Post-Graduate Diploma in Endangered Species Recovery with distinction, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK (2016)
via Wildlife Preservation Canada's New Noah Scholarship
Project: Population monitoring and putative biocontrol of the invasive Giant Africa Land Snail (Achatina spp.) on Ile aux Aigrettes, Mauritius
Master of Science, Biology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON. Supervisor: JD Litzgus. (2014)
Thesis: Sexual dimorphism and alternative reproductive tactics in the Midland Painted Turtle, Chrysemys picta marginata
Bachelor of Science, Honours with distinction, Wildlife Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON (2012)
Thesis: Influence of genome size on call structure of anurans (Supervisors: TR Gregory and TD Nudds)
PhD, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and the School of the Environment (2023)
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. Supervisor: N Rollinson.
Dissertation: Ecology and sensitivity to environmental change of a northern population of Spotted Salamander, Ambystoma maculatum
Post-Graduate Diploma in Endangered Species Recovery with distinction, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK (2016)
via Wildlife Preservation Canada's New Noah Scholarship
Project: Population monitoring and putative biocontrol of the invasive Giant Africa Land Snail (Achatina spp.) on Ile aux Aigrettes, Mauritius
Master of Science, Biology, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON. Supervisor: JD Litzgus. (2014)
Thesis: Sexual dimorphism and alternative reproductive tactics in the Midland Painted Turtle, Chrysemys picta marginata
Bachelor of Science, Honours with distinction, Wildlife Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON (2012)
Thesis: Influence of genome size on call structure of anurans (Supervisors: TR Gregory and TD Nudds)
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