PEARL  Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Laboratory

                                             Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston ON, Canada, K7L 3N6

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PhD Students

Kristina  Arseneau - Acidification and climate warming: a multi-proxy paleolimnological study assessing the response of Adirondack (NY, USA) lakes to regional anthropogenic stressors. E-mail
 Todd French- Spatial and temporal trends in contaminant concentrations in Great Lakes fishes, with emphasis on identified areas of concern.E-mail
 Katie Griffiths - Heterogeneity in northern climate trends: Assessing the role of glacial modulation.
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Kris Hadley - A multi-proxy investigation of ecological changes due to multiple anthropogenic stressors in Muskoka-Haliburton, Ontario, Canada. E-mail

Kathryn Hargan - Diatoms as indicators of environmental and climatic change in peatlands and lakes of northern Ontario, CanadaE-mail

Jenny Korosi - The Cladocera of Nova Scotia and their responses to multiple anthropogenic stressors.E-mail

 

 

 

 

 

 
Josh Thienpont- An assessment of the impact of thawing permafrost on lakes of the western Canadian Arctic. E-mail
 

 

 

 

 

 

 Brendan Wiltse - Determining the role of climate on recent changes in algal communities in boreal lakes.  WebsiteE-mail
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MSc Students

Cassandra Cummings- Using paleolimnology to assess changes in chrysophyte species assemblages in Wolf Lake (NY, USA), and Adirondack 'Heritage Lake'.

 

Donya Danesh- Analysis of pollen and charcoal from lake sediments in Northwestern Ontario to track the long-term Holocene climate.

 

Moumita Karmakar- Assessing the potential of midge assemblages to detect environmental change in northwestern Ontario. E-mail

Mark Kelly- Impacts of acidification on the movement of mercury from sediment into biota.E-mail

Larkin Mosscrop - Shallow lakes

Andrew Labaj- Bosmina size structure related to opposing predation regimes.

Angelo Sorce - A paleolimnological investigation of ecological responses to climate change and a piscivore manipulation in Mouse and Ranger lakes, Ontario
 Angelo at work

 Emily Stewart- Assessing the influence of seabird inputs on chironomid assemblages in the Canadian High Arctic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

BSc (Honours) Students

Jennifer Barrow- A paleolimnological investigation using diatom assemblages to disentangle the long-term impacts of acidification and calcium decline in softwater lakes of Central Ontario, Canada.

Kristen Coleman-

 Michelle Lavery-

Colin Robinson-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lab Volunteers

  Mark Szenteczki
Fiona Emdin Daniela Keren Mason Lam