Contemporary Students &
Research Associates & Assistants
Dr. S. Brillant,
PhD (University Sydney).
WWF-Canada-PDF researching fishing-gear threats and time/space distributions of
right whales among unknown habitats.
A. Vanderlaan, BSc Hon. (Biology &
Statistics, Dalhousie University), MSc (Statistics, University of Victoria).
2008 American Society of Mammalogists William T. Hornaday Conservation Award
winner and PhD Candidate researching time/space vessel traffic and fishing-gear
encounter probabilities with right whales.
Click to read about their research.
K. Davies, BSc
Hon. (Biology, University
of Victoria). Alexander
Graham Bell Canada Scholar (NSERC) and MSc Candidate researching the time/space
variation in the prey field of the North Atlantic right whale in the Roseway
Basin region (contemporary and historical) and in the Bay of Fundy
(historical).
J. Hrycik, BSc
Hon. (Biology, Long Island
University). MSc
Candidate researching time/space water mass tracing and dispersion using our
new particle-tracing technology to do the REAL stuff for Biology.
M. Hatcher, BSc.
(Physics, Dalhousie
University). Research
Assistant with our particle tracing group.
A. Ryan, BSc
Candidate (Biology, Dalhousie
University). Science
Co-op Student assisting in right whale and particle tracing studies.
J. Van Der Hoop,
BSc Candidate (Biology, Dalhousie
University). Estimating
absolute vessel-whale strike probabilities in the Roseway Basin
region of the Scotian Shelf.