Paper #2 for Shantel!

Shantel’s second paper from her undergraduate research has just been accepted by the Canadian Journal of Zoology!  This paper, based on her senior thesis research finds that dragonfly larvae are voracious predators on trematode cercariae and that smaller larvae eat more than large larvae when Daphnia are available as alternative prey. Nice work Shantel!

Catania, S.V.L., J. Koprivnikar, and S.J. McCauley. Size-dependent predation alters interactions between parasites and predators.

OE3C was a resounding success!

Three members of the lab presented at the Ontario Ecology, Evolution, and Ethology meeting this weekend and Celina was on the organizing committee.  Rosie gave an outstanding talk on her translocation work from last summer, Shantel gave a fantastic lightening talk on her senior project research, and Ilia gave a wonderful poster that was awarded 1st runner-up in the undergraduate poster presentations.  They all made the lab proud.  It was a great conference and everyone was thoroughly impressed by the EE&E research being done in Ontario!

Ilia awarded KSR USRA!

Ilia Ferzoco is the recipient of a Koffler Scientific Reserve Undergraduate Student Research Award.  She will be conducting research at KSR this summer, following up on work she began last summer at KSR as an ROP student.  Congratulations Ilia!

Congratulations Tammy!

Tammy Duong’s manuscript based on her senior project research has been accepted for publication in the journal Ecology.  Tammy is now a graduate student in Tom Sherratt’s lab at Carleton but completed her senior project in the McCauley lab, where we still miss her.  Well done Tammy!