Yvette Chirinian is our lab technician, and joined us in November 2011.
Tara Zamin started
a Ph.D. in January 2009.
"I am interested in the interactive relationships between caribou herbivory, tundra vegetation community dynamics, and ecosystem biogeochemistry, all in the context of potential impacts of climate change."
Tara received second prize in the best poster competition at the British Ecological Society Symposium on Plant Secondary Metabolites in Brighton in April 2010.
Tara has been awarded an Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship D from NSERC for the years 2011-2013, and was the recipient of OGS (Ontario graduate scholarship) support in 2010-2011.
Casper Christiansen is a Ph.D. thesis student who started in September 2011.
"My primary research interests are rooted within arctic ecosystem ecology. What drives litter decomposition on the tundra, how do biogeochemical properties fluctuate with season and soil depth, and how will these characteristics influence ecosystem responses to a changing climate?"
Casper was awarded an Ontario Trillium International Student Scholarship from the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities for the years 2011-2015.
Alexandra Djorjevic is an M.Sc. thesis student who started in September 2011.
"My research focuses on the relationship between deer browsing and forest regeneration in the Eastern Ontario region. The ultimate goal of my research is to investigate the feedback mechanisms that come as a result of the deer-induced changes to individual plants and plant communities, looking for evidence of the potential community shift towards an alternate stable state."
Julie Hovey is a summer SWEP assistant helping Alex with field work in the summer of 2013.
Catherine Li, Alistair Usher, and Yoon-Mi Bae are helping us with lab work in the summer of 2013.
