Members Of Our Lab

Acacia is a PhD student at Carleton University and is supervised by Dr. Steven Cooke and Dr. Keith Van de Rite. She is investigating the ecological benefits of modified shoreline armouring for freshwater biodiversity.

Research interests: Evidence-based policymaking, anthropogenic impacts and biodiversity conservation strategies, science communication and outreach

Thesis topic: Black bass tournament science – biological and human dimensions.

Research Interests: Canadian fisheries management systems, natural resource co-management, conservation science.

Co-Supervisor: Dr. Vivian Nguyen, Carleton University

Co-supervisor: Jake Brownscombe

Research interests: Behavioural ecology, spatial ecology, trophic dynamics, science communication and outreach

Research Interests: Cold water ecology, behaviour, and physiology

Currently studying free-swimming largemouth bass and lake trout bioenergetics using implantable tags

Thesis Topic: A review and practical investigation of the benefits and challenges associated with the electroimmobilization of fishes.

Research interests: Freshwater fisheries and recreational angling impacts.

Research interests: Conservation physiology, movement, and habitat use of marine and aquatic predators. Conservation of marine ecosystems such as seagrass habitats.

Co-Supervisor: Dr. Jake Brownscombe

Research interests: aquatic ecology, habitat and landscape use, behaviour and physiology of aquatic vertebrates, conservation biology, marine protected areas

Co-Supervised: Dr. Cory Suski (University of Illinois – Urbana Champagne)

Research interests: fish conservation, ecology,  socio-ecology, human dimensions

Co-supervised by Dr. Sean Landsman

Research Interests: Freshwater fisheries; movement ecology.

Research interests: Impacts of catch and release angling, migration of freshwater fish, adaptation of freshwater fish with introduction of invasive species.

Research interests: evidence syntheses, evidence-based decision making, systematic prioritization, anthropogenic impacts, aquatic ecosystem and biodiversity conservation

Research Interests: conservation biology, spatial ecology, habitat use

Thesis Topic: Created Wetlands as Habitat for Freshwater Biota in Urban Areas

Co-Supervisor: Dr. Sean Landsman

Thesis Topic: Spatial and trophic ecology of freshwater salmonids in managed environments