Hudsonian Godwit in the Fens of Churchill, Manitoba.

I am in the Renewable Resources (Wildlife Biology) PhD program at McGill University, where I am co-supervised by Kyle H. Elliott and Paul A. Smith (Environment and Climate Change Canada).

For my PhD, I am working to further our understanding of Arctic and Subarctic shorebird diet and migration. I am particularly interested in the importance of overwintered berries to shorebirds arriving on the breeding grounds in spring, and how berries might help facilitate their long-distance migrations in the fall.

Most of my research centres on the movement ecology of shorebirds and seabirds, and I have extensive experience with capture, tagging, and sampling, including dorsally mounted GPS tags and blood sampling. Outside the field, I’m a self-confessed stats enthusiast: I love building hierarchical Bayesian models, working with movement and state-space models for tracking data, and learning about new analytical techniques.

About to release a recently banded and GPS-tagged Hudsonian Whimbrel at Christmas Lake Esker, Churchill, Manitoba.