Courtenay lab Alumni Jess Kidd, Kara Cox and Sondra Eger all have shiny new publications to share.
Jess’s MSc work examining the design of the citizen-science Community Aquatic Monitoring Program in Atlantic Canada has just been accepted by Fishes. This is a program Simon co-designed while he was with Fisheries and Oceans nearly two decades ago so he is very relieved that Jess’s analysis found the design sound! So is Marine Environmental Quality Program Coordinator Monica Boudreau (another Courtenay lab alumna), who still runs the CAMP program from the Gulf Fisheries Centre in Moncton NB.
For her MES, Kara collaborated with Dr. Sherri (Sam) Mason from SUNY-Fredonia (now working at Penn State Behrend) on the first comprehensive analysis of microplastics in surface waters of Lake Superior. Concentrations were higher than expected in this most upstream and least populated of the Laurentian Great Lakes, being intermediate between Lake Michigan and Lakes Huron, Erie and Ontario. Kara’s publication is coming out in Journal of Great Lakes Research.
MUN Postdoctoral Fellow Sondra published her third and final PhD thesis chapter in Marine Policy. This systematic review of integrated coastal and marine management (ICM) progress over the past decade revealed that ICM implementation has been hindered by a lack of appropriate governance arrangements. This was actually Sondra’s first data chapter in her doctoral thesis and developed a framework for analyzing ICM governance which she used in the rest of her work in the Bay of Fundy. All of this led to Sondra’s present PDF with Professor Kelly Vodden at MUN-Grenfell Campus and invited participation in a number of Atlantic Canada groups concerned with ICM.