I am an aquatic ecologist and physiologist, currently working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Blewett Lab at the University of Alberta. I am interested in studying the various ways that climate change will impact the life histories of aquatic ectotherms, particularly relating to temperature and oxygen availability.
Currently, I am working to understand the ways that ash runoff from increasingly big and intense wildfires might impact Canada's freshwater systems, especially for coho and Chinook salmon. Pairing stream-side physiology experiments with in-lab toxicology exposures, I want to know whether this growing ash influx is harming salmon and how. My aim is to use this knowledge to inform new standards for stream conservation under a rapidly changing fire regime.
My research career has taken me from reservoirs and lakes in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, to Andean ponds in southern Ecuador, to Great Lakes country. In my PhD research at Deakin University, I worked in the estuaries of Victoria, Australia, to gain a better understanding of the physiology of Galaxias maculatus, a small but ecologically crucial fish found throughout the southern hemisphere.
Currently, I am working to understand the ways that ash runoff from increasingly big and intense wildfires might impact Canada's freshwater systems, especially for coho and Chinook salmon. Pairing stream-side physiology experiments with in-lab toxicology exposures, I want to know whether this growing ash influx is harming salmon and how. My aim is to use this knowledge to inform new standards for stream conservation under a rapidly changing fire regime.
My research career has taken me from reservoirs and lakes in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, to Andean ponds in southern Ecuador, to Great Lakes country. In my PhD research at Deakin University, I worked in the estuaries of Victoria, Australia, to gain a better understanding of the physiology of Galaxias maculatus, a small but ecologically crucial fish found throughout the southern hemisphere.