Former Lab Members

Graduate Students

Blake Stuparyk (PhD) 2025 Integrating Taxonomic and Trait-Based Approaches to Evaluate Beta Diversity of Freshwater Invertebrates as Bioindicators of Environmental Change in Western Canada

Colleen Dawson (MSc) 2025 Glacier and vegetation landscape inputs structure lake ecosystems in the Canadian Rocky Mountains 

Shelby Stenerson (PhD) 2025 

Ben Mercer (MSc) 2023 Ecological Effects of Higher Water Temperature in Experimental Montane Streams

Karson Sudlow (MSc) 2023 Epilithic Algal Community Responses to Rapid Glacier Loss in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Tamika Nagao (MSc) 2023 Ecological Impacts of Extreme Climatic Events on Mountain Lakes and Ponds

Sydney Huculak (MSc co-supervisor Suzanne Tank) 2021 Nutrient limitation of periphyton in agricultural streams: Implications for watershed management

Emily Barrie (MSc co-supervisor Suzanne Tank) 2021 Assessing Stream Function Across an Agricultural Gradient in Three Ecoregions of Alberta

Elisabeth Richardson (PhD co-supervisor Joel Dacks) 2020 The Cell Biology And Ecology Of Heterotrophic Eukaryotes In A Tailings Reclamation Site In Northern Alberta

Nikki van Klaveren (MSc co-supervisor Suzanne Tank) 2020 Assessing Algal Community Structure and Nutrient Uptake Kinetics Across a Nutrient Gradient in Agricultural Streams

Kathleen Keenan (MSc) 2020 Taxonomic changes in mountain zooplankton communities over a 50-year period reveal a loss of calanoid copepods

Jenna Cook (MSc) 2020 Phytoplankton communities as indicators of environmental change and nutrient deposition in the Canadian Rockies

Mitchell Johnsen (MSc) 2019 Resilience of Mountain Pond Communities to Extreme Thermal Regime Shifts

Hedin Nelson-Chorney (MSc co-supervisor Mark Poesch) 2019 Environmental DNA in lake sediment reveals biogeography of native trout diversity

Laura Redmond (MSc) 2017 A Functional Approach Reveals Zooplankton Responses to Environmental Change in Mountain Lakes

Charlie Loewen (PhD) 2017 Stressor response and spatial dynamics of mountain lake communities

Lauren Bortolotti (PhD co-supervisor Vince St. Louis) 2016 Biological communities and ecosystem function in restored and natural prairie wetlands

Megan MacLennan (PhD) 2015 Cumulative Impacts of Multiple Stressors on Aquatic Communities: Novel Fish Predators in Warming Mountain Lakes

Aurnir Nelson (MSc co-supervisor David Chanasyk) 2015 Development of a GIS Water Table Visualization Tool (WTVT) for Determining Water Table Position in Heterogeneous Landscapes in the Boreal Plains Ecozone, Alberta

Diane Orihel (PhD co-supervisor David Schindler) 2013 The Role of Iron in Suppressing Internal Phosphorus Loading and Toxic Cyanobacterial Blooms in Freshwater Lakes

Kesia Miyashita (MSc co-supervisor Catherine La Farge) 2013 A bryophyte perspective on forest harvest: The effects of logging on above- and below-ground bryophyte communities in coastal temperate rainforests

Jordan Messner (MSc) 2012 Effects of introduced fish on mountain lake zooplankton communities

Lisa Porter (MSc) 2012 Benthic Responses to Nitrogen and Phosphorus Deposition on Alpine Ponds in Banff National Park: A Replicated Whole-Ecosystem Experiment

Diana Tirlea (MSc) 2011 Evaluating terrestrial-aquatic linkages in the Canadian Rocky Mountains: Eiffel Lake and Sentinel Lake, Banff National Park

James Zettel (MSc) 2010 Planktonic responses to nitrogen and phosphorus deposition – a natural alpine pond experiment

Iain Phillips (MSc) 2006 The boys are back in town: Orconectes virilis re-introduction to Lake 302S

Michael Christensen (MSc) 2006 Impacts of multiple anthropogenic stressors on boreal planktonic communities

Angela Holzapfel (MSc) 2005 The potential adaptability of alpine zooplankton communities to environmental warming 

Kristy Hogsden (MSc) 2005 Benthic consumers and autotrophs in recovering acidified lakes: patterns and processes

Post Doctoral Fellows

Anas Mohamed, Patrick Thompson, Paul Weidman, Devin Lyons

BSc Students and Research Assistant

Simonne Tremblay, Chris Chan, Matthew Elphick, Cordelius Lasse Hultberg, Imtiaz Raqib, Caleb Sinn, Charlotte Dawe, Tom Brown, Alex McClymont, Stephanie Pilieci, Chantal Avery-Dings, Mohammad Youssef,  Angela Strecker, Sarah Pearce, Zachary Fritze, Ian Potts, Shannon Smith, Zachary Long, Marie St-Jacques, Duncan MacIver