This past week, Master’s student Mark McCarthy participated in an online workshop on PRIMER v7 statistical software presented by Distinguished Professor Marti Anderson. The workshop was originally scheduled for the spring at the Huntsman Marine Science Centre in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. Unfortunately, this was cancelled due to COVID-19 concerns. The workshop was rescheduled to be online. Although it was disappointing that the workshop was not held in beautiful New Brunswick, it is good to see that we can adapt to these uncertain times and keep moving forward.
Mark hopes to apply what he learned at this workshop to his own research. Where he is looking at the benthic macroinvertebrate communities in a section of Blair Creek that is undergoing urban development. PRIMER will be used to help analyze the community assemblages in this area and determine if there has been changes during the years of urban development.