PEARL  Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Laboratory

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

Some Former Students / Researchers

Reba McIver- Diatoms as indicators of recovery from hyper-eutrophication in high arctic ponds.
 

Katherine Mataya
 

Iain MacKenzie- A paleolimnological investigation of eutrophication and recovery in Lake Washington (Seattle, WA).

Elisa Cheng- A paleolimnological assessment of the response of Arctic lakes in the Mackenzie Delta uplands (NT, Canada) to failed drilling-mud sumps.

Chris Ng- Diatoms as a paleolimnological confirmation of climate change in the Adirondacks, New York.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kathryn McCleary- An Evaluation of Climate Change and Eutrophication in a High Arctic Lake.

 

 

 

 

 

Karlee Flear- A paleolimnological investigation of chrysophytes and chironomids in the Experimental Lakes Area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Susan Ma-    Assessment of water availability of southern lakes in the Winnipeg River Drainage Basin over the past 2 Millennia to determine the susceptibility of this basin to synchronous droughts.

 

Robyn Laing- A paleolimnological assessment of the impacts of anthropogenic disturbances on chrysophyte diversity in the Winnipeg River Drainage basin.

 

Daniel Johnson- Paleolimnological investigation of diatoms in dead zone lakes of the Western Canadian Arctic.

 

Kayla Deasley- A paleolimnological investigation of Cladocera in the dead zone of the Western Canadian Arctic.

 

Jamie Summers- A paleolimnological assessment of residential shoreline development using chironomid and chaoborus assemblages in Poplar Bay, Lake of the Woods, Ontario.

 

Ayla Fenton

Melanie Shapiera- Calcium effects in softwater lakes: Investigating changes in zooplankton community structure.

 

Heather Haig - Analysis of drought susceptibility and water variability of northern lakes within the Winnipeg River drainage basin over the past two millennia to determine synchronicity water levels.

Alexandra Gerber - A paleoecological study of fire regime during the Holocene in St. Lawrence Islands National Park, Southeastern Ontario using the charcoal record.

Melissa Moos -  Paleolimnological Investigation of Holocene Level Climate Regimes in Lake 239 (Experimental Lakes Area, NW Ontario).

Kim Sontag- Tracking the Effects of Acidification and Recovery on Aquatic Invertebrates in the Wawa and Sudbury Regions.
Phone: 613-533-6000 Ex. 77380

Suzie Ellwood - Reconstructing Holocene fire history in Southeastern Ontario through an investigation of sedimentary charcoal.

Thiyake Rajaratnam- Assessment of environmental changes in Halifax over the last 150 years using sub-fossil diatom assemblages.

Alyson Paul - A diatom-based paleolimnological investigation of long-term climate change in Canada's arctic tundra.

Lindsay Brager - Assessment of the extent of biological recovery of Big Moose Lake, NY from acidification using chrysophytes as paleoecological indicators.

Christine Greenaway - Diatoms and scaled-chrysophytes as indicators of biological recovery from acid rain in lakes near Wawa, Ontario.

Kyle McIver - A paleolimnological investigating of a possible calcium concentration tipping point in Cladocera communities in Nova Scotia.

 

Karen Ross - The extent of biological recovery of Big Moose Lake, NY from acidification.

 

Daniel Selbie- Paleolimnological reconstructions of long-term sockeye salmon population dynamics in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, British Columbia and Yukon Territory in relation to human and natural forcing mechanisms.

 

Brian Ginn- Assessment of water quality in Nova Scotia using diatoms as paleoecological indicators. 

     

Isla Milne - A high-resolution fossil diatom record of climate and environmental change in equatorial East Africa over the past 21,000 years.

 

 

 

 

 

Bronwyn Keatley - Diatoms as indicators of environmental change from three distinct ecosystem types in the Canadian High Arctic.

 

Jeannine St. Jacques - Drought variability in the North American Great Plains during the last 1500 years.

 

 

Shelley Wilkinson- Assessing the relationship between sedimentary charcoal, climate, and recorded fires events

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christina Clark-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Erin MacMillan- A spatial scale approach to the analysis of primary and secondary transported charcoal.

Anna Desellas - Cladoceran microfossils as indicators of long-term environmental change in central Ontario lakes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mihaela Enache, PhD - Climate and fire dynamics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Astrid Michels, PhD

 

 

 

 

 

Jen Bondy - Tracking past sockeye salmon presence in relation to oral tradition from a remote sub-arctic lake (Yukon Territory, Canada)

 

 

 

 

 

Anne Harris - Impacts of Environmental Stressors on Lakes of New Brunswick, Canada: A Paleolimnological Assessment    

Allison Foster-

Crystal Lai - The Effects of Zebra Mussels and Elevated Temperature on Zooplankton Assemblage in Two Eastern Ontario Lakes

 

 

 

 

 

Laura Grace - Assessing Environment Change in three Atlantic Whitefish (Coregonus huntsmani) Lakes in Nova Scotia, Canada using Paleolimnological Techniques.

Sergi Pla, PhD-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kyle Gervais- The Effects of Zebra Mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) Predation on Seasonal Phytoplankton Succession in Lake Opinicon, Ontario.

 

 

 

 

 

Erica Johnson - Fossil chironomids as indicators of environmental change in Russell Lake, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Elyse LaFace -  Cladocera as paleolimnological indicators of recent warming in subarctic Canada

Nafisha Lalani - Assessing the Role of Epilithic Diatoms as Indicators of Nutrient Enrichment at Cape Vera, Devon Island, Canadian High Arctic

 

 

 

 

 

 

Laura Schrumm / Lawlor -  Chironomids: Indicators of hypolimnetic oxygen change
in Nova Scotian Brook Trout lakes.

 

 

 

 

 

Jon Sweetman, PhD - Aquatic invertebrates and climate change in Arctic and Subarctic regions.