Past Graduate Students

Matt Siegle, PhD. (2017)

Co-supervised by Rick Taylor
​Thesis: "Heat wave impacts across scales in the splash pool copepod, Tigriopus californicus".
​Currently: 

Dana Haggarty, PhD. (2015)

Co-supervised by Jon Shurin
​Thesis: "An evaluation of the effectiveness of rockfish conservation areas in British Columbia, Canada".
​Currently: 

Natalie Caulk, MSc. (2015)

Thesis: "Community structure and availability of primary producers to herbivores along a temperature gradient"
Currently: Program Associate at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

Natalie Stafl, MSc. (2013)

Thesis: "Quantifying the effect of hiking disturbance on American pika (Ochotona princeps) foraging behaviour"
Currently: Executive Director for the Columbia-Shuswap Invasive Species Society.

Ross Whippo, MSc. (2013)

Thesis: "Seagrass epifaunal communities of Barkley Sound: Epifaunal diversity varies across small spatial and temporal scales"
Currently: Biologist at The Smithsonian, Tennenbaum Marine Observatory Network, MarineGEO
Ross's website

Past Post-Doctoral Research Fellows

Jennifer Sunday (2015-2017)

Robin Elahi (2014-2015)

​Currently: Post-Doctoral Fellow at Hopkins Marine Station. 

Adrian Stier (2012-2013)
Adrian's website

Past Research Associates

Michelle Tseng, PhD

Currently: Assistant Professor at UBC

Past Undergraduate Honours Students

Cori-Anne Huisman, BSc. Honours (2016)

Gwendolyn Griffiths, BSc. Honours (2016) and Field Assistant

Thesis: "From red to green: Controls of Smithora naiadum colonization of Zostera marina meadows"

Nicole Knight, BSc. Honours (2014) and Lab Assistant

Thesis: "The variable impacts of predation on seagrass mesograzer communities in Trevor Channel, British Columbia"
Currently: PhD student in Frederic Guichard's lab at McGill University

Jemma Titheridge, BSc. Honours (2014-2015)

Sarah Amundrud, BSc. Honours (2011-2012)

Thesis: "The relative importance of predators and nutrients on eelgrass benthic food webs in British Columbia. Ecology and Environmental Biology".
Currently: PhD Student in Diane Srivastava's lab at UBC
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Carolyn Prentice, BSc. Honours (2011-2012)

Thesis: "The relative impacts of three mesograzer species on eelgrass (Zostera marina) epiphyte abundance in Barkley Sound, B.C."
Currently: MSc student in Anne Salomon's lab at SFU
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Past Directed Studies Students

Zander Chila (2016-2017)
Currently: Research Technician in the Tseng lab at UBC

Amir Gohari (2016-2017)

Scott Brydle (2015-2016)
Currently: MSc Student at UBC

Sachiko Ouchi​ (2015-2016)

Theodore Back (2015-2016)

Melanie Overhill (2013-2014)

Stephanie Connor (2011-2012)
Currently: MSc Student at UNB

David Xiao Song (2012-2013)

Andrew Huang (2011-2012)
Currently: MSc Student at UBC

Coreen Forbes (2010-2011)
Currently: MSc Student in O'Connor lab at UBC

Patricia Sun (2010-2011)
Directed Studies 2011, Lab Technician 2011

Past Lab Technicians and Volunteers

Marcus Campbell (2016-2017)
Lab Technician
​Currently: Data Scientist at Hakai Institute

William Ou (2016-2017)

Allison Dennert (2015-2016)
Research Assistant
Currently: MSc student at SFU

Melinda Yogendran (2014-2015)
Lab Technician
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John Cristiani (2012-2013)
Volunteer

Winnie Cheung
Lab manager (2012)
Volunteer and Lab Research Assistant on ZEN Eelgrass project (2011) 

Nick Uthaikhaifar (2011-2012)
Volunteer

Sanjna Hothi (2012)
Volunteer

Boaz Hung (2011)
​Volunteer

Past Visiting Scientists 

Dominik Bahlburg
2016 - Visiting undergraduate student from the University of Oldenburg.

Jessica Garzke

2012 - Visiting PhD student from IMF-GEOMAR in Kiel, Germany

Frances Ratcliffe

2012 - Visiting scientific illustrator and B.S. Zoology student from Pippa Moore's group in Wales