New People - CRI

Baird Lab:


Mascha Rubach – Mascha is a Ph.D. student co-supervised by Donald Baird and Paul van den Brink at the Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Mascha was a visiting student in Fredericton for August and helped to organise the TERA workshop in Burlington ON.

Her thesis title is ‘Predicting the response of freshwater invertebrates to stress using species traits and stressor mode of action.’

Curry Lab:

Nathan Wilbur - originally from Hampton, NB (BScFE, University of New Brunswick). Co-supervisors: Kerry MacQuarrie and Allen Curry.

Thermal mapping - Cains River. MSc project

Infra-red imagery will be used to map river habitat and locate thermal refugia for Brook Trout and Atlantic Salmon. Facing changes to the climate, a continuing forest industry and clearcutting near rivers, means we must gain an understanding of the cold-water habitat in order to preserve trout and salmon in these remote rivers of New Brunswick.

Jeremy McLaughlin (BSc. University of New Brunswick). Aquatic Technician, August 2009.

Courtenay/Methven Lab:

Erinn Ipsen – originally from Wiarton, ON (BSc University of Guelph)

Investigating the near-shore fish, invertebrate and plant communities in the Musquash estuary. MSc project.

Courtenay Lab:



Mark McGraw – Originally from Saint John, NB (BSc UNBSJ)

Life history variation of marine teleosts in the North Western Atlantic. MSc Project.

My MSc project focuses on determining optimal suites of life history traits for a given set of environmental variables and is an attempt to clarify existing work by studying a more continuous and homogeneous environment.

Kidd Lab:

Geoff McBriarty
A Saint John local, Geoff completed his B.Sc. at UNBSJ in May of 2009. Starting in September with the Kidd lab he will be looking at the effect of the aquaculture anti-lousing chemical emamectin benzoate on benthic polychaete worms.

Shelley Wellman
Shelley completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Regina, before coming to Saint John to begin her Masters in Biology. She spent the summer between the Fresh Water Institute and ELA studying food web recovery in Lake 375, a former aquaculture site, using C, N and S isotopes.


Heather Loomer
A local to Saint John, N.B, Heather completed her B.Sc. at University of New Brunswick and her M.Sc. at the University of Waterloo. She will be beginning her Ph.D with Kidd lab in January 2010 looking at changes in structure and biomass storage within food webs in watersheds across a landscape based stressor gradient.


MacLatchy Lab (Laurier):


Jeremy Fulton - joined the MacLatchy Lab at Laurier in the summer and is completing his Honours BSc, investigating the ovarian follicular development of mummichog.


Tanya Nadon - worked in the MacLatchy Lab at Laurier in the summer and is completing her Honours BSc, developing a flow-through xenobiotic exposure system for mummichog.


Ibrahim Chehade - completed his undergrad degree at Wilfrid Laurier University (BSc).
MSc Project is the effects of contaminant exposure on embryonic gonadal development in mummichog.


Esteban Gillio Meina - originally from University of Buenas Aires (BSc)
Master’s thesis: the effects of contaminant exposure on steroidogenesis in mummichog.


MacQuarrie Lab:

Graham Bartlett - BScE from UNB (Civil Engineering), started MScE in Civil Engineering in September 2009.

Nathan Green - BSc from University of Calgary (Geology), started MScE in Civil Engineering in September 2009.

Barret Kurylyk - BScE from UNB (Civil Engineering), started MScE in Civil Engineering in September 2009.