By Erica Fellin, a PhD student at McGill University In April 2023, I was lucky enough to participate in a three-week internship at the Centre d’enseignement et de recherche en foresterie (CERFO) to develop my statistical modelling skills. CERFO is a College Center for Technology Transfer (CCTT) that offers environmental research services, knowledge transfer, and...

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Rôle sur l’équipe Beagle: ÉditeurRole on the Beagle Team: Editor Ben Mumford is a Master’s Student at the Université de Montréal in the Department of Biological Sciences. Supervised by Professor Chris Cameron, his area of interest and research is in the evolutionary development of invertebrates. His master’s is focussing on the microstructural and compositional properties of stereom,...

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Rôle sur l’équipe Beagle: ÉditriceRole on the Beagle Team: Editor Adithi Rao is currently a master’s student in McGill University, Montreal. She studies the behavior and neuroscience of freshwater fish, specifically how, when, and with which individuals they group. She also partakes in numerous student outreach and education activities in Quebec. When not thinking about fish, she...

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Rôle sur l’équipe Beagle: ÉditriceRole on the Beagle Team: Editor Laura is a PhD student at McGill University co-advised by Drs. Rowan Barrett at McGill and Matthieu Leray at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. She splits her time between Montreal and Panama, where she studies the microbiomes of tropical coral reef fish and their responses to environmental...

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By Anonymous, a PhD student from McGill University My lifelong tenet is that learning follows experience. This tenet has kept me moving throughout my career as an ecologist. If the chance for a new experience presents itself, I will take it nine times out of ten. This tendency has given me experience in wildlife conservation,...

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By Anna Lippold, a PhD student at McGill University Just a few weeks before Christmas 2023, I travelled to Northern Ireland to participate in the Annual Meeting of the British Ecological Society (BES); funded by a QCBS Excellence award. The BES is a large society composed of ecologists not only from Great Britain and Europe...

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By Kelsey Wilson, a MSc student at McGill University I did not follow the traditional path into environmental biology. Like many ecologists, I have always felt a strong connection to nature since childhood. However, after high school, my academic journey led to me studying fine arts. Driven by a deep curiosity about the natural world,...

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By Emmanuelle Barreau, a PhD student at the Université du Québec en Outaouais In May 2023, I participated at the Advanced Field School in Computational Ecology at the Couvent de Val-Morin, during which we studied prey-predator relationships in natural environments and the analytical methods for these complex datasets. Throughout the week, we were key players...

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By Lindsay Trottier, a PhD student at McGill University In November 2023, I was afforded the opportunity to attend the 17th International Symposium on Aquatic Plants held in Antwerp, Belgium, which ran from November 13-17. The goal of the conference is to bring together individuals and organizations from around the world to discuss topics relating...

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By Michael Paulauskas, a MSc graduate from Concordia University For starters, I’d like to apologize for the seemingly sensational title. No, I won’t be writing about actual hauntings, ghosts, or any other supernatural phenomena. Quite the opposite, I’ll be sharing with you my experiences with something relatively more mundane: urban soils! It isn’t every day...

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