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Kate Turner is a masters student at Queen's University in Kingston where she's working with Shelley Arnott and myself. Kate has big plans to investigate aspects of how dispersal and competition contribute to the structure of zooplankton communities. Kate's other official job over the course of her masters is to continually remind me of all the ways that aquatic and terrestrial communities differ. Animals move. Got it. |
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Karen Dante is an honours thesis student from Queen's University in Kingston and is working with myself and Lonnie Aarssen to tackle questions concerning whether plant species are organized with respect to flowering phenology. For the next four months, Karen plans to muck around in scratchy old-fields at the Queen’s University Biological Station hoping to solve the mysteries of the plant world. At night she wears even bigger sunglasses and fights crime. |
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Jessica Wilson has been working with us for nearly a year now, building trait databases, setting-up, and organizing our field experiments at the Ontario Forestry Research Institute Arboretum (satellite image here and photos of our experimental plots here). Jessica has also taken on the responsibility of organizing and filling-out our growing plant trait database, which we are building in cooperation with TOPIC, a new Canadian database of plant traits (link coming soon). |
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Lesley MacSween has placed herself on short-term loan to our lab recently to help gather plant trait data from the forests of southern Ontario. Thanks for braving the mosquitos and taking time away from writing up your masters thesis to help us out Lesley. |
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G-Joe Marquis has joined our lab as a volunteer, hoping to partake of the plant ecology research. Gerry has also agreed to be the lab comedian, and has big plants for developing a ple-flora of plant jokes that will give our web page a proper pollen-dusting of eye-roll inducing humour and to remove the unfair stigma of a drab science. |
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Eriko Ando has joined our lab as a volunteer and is working with us on developing our plant community database collection, helping with field work, and updating our trait databases. |
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Ashlyn Wardlaw has joined our ranks to help with some research that we're doing in collaboration with Pedro Antunes on invasive species ecology. |
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Kaitlyn Teller is volunteering in our lab, working on accumulating plant community data that are publicly available, for larger, multi-community analyses. She's also planning to memorize all the books on my bookshelf. |
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Mandy Birch has decided to join our ranks as a volunteer to find out more about this plant biology stuff, and to face her fears pertaining to computer use. |
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Karrah Watkins is helping out with the accumulation of plant trait data for all the data sets that Kaitlyn and G-Joe are finding for us. It's glamourous work. |
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