Courtenay UW Lab Alumni

PhD Students

• Zacharie Sirabahenda, INRS 2019. Co-supervised with André St-Hilaire and Mike van den Heuvel.
  • Thesis: Caractérisation et estimation des concentrations de sédiments en suspension: cas des bassins versants agricoles de l’Île du Prince Édouard
• Mike Coffin, UPEI 2019. Co-supervised with Mike van den Heuvel.
  • Thesis: Monitoring the impact of nutrient-induced hypoxia and its effect on the invertebrate community in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada

Masters Students

• Matt Cowley, MES-MRP 2019.
  • Thesis: Quantifying the value of nearshore coarse woody debris in the detection of Grass Carp and Bigheaded Carp surrogate species in the Great Lakes.
• Nicole Stamnes, MES-MRP 2019.
  • Thesis: Understanding eelgrass (Zostera marina) recovery within eutrophic estuaries of Atlantic Canada.
• Jesse Hitchcock, MSc UPEI 2018. Co-supervised with Mike van den Heuvel. 
  • Thesis: Eelgrass (Zostera marina) responses to natural and anthropogenic gradients in estuaries of the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada).
• Kara Cox, MES 2018. Co-supervised with Derek Armitage.
  • Thesis: Distribution, Abundance, and Spatial Variability of Microplastic Pollution in Surface Waters of Lake Superior. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/13592
• Jess Kidd, MSc (Biol) 2017.  Co-supervised with Mark Servos. 
  • Thesis: Assessing the Sampling Design of the Community Aquatic Monitoring Program (CAMP).  http://hdl.handle.net/10012/12158
• Ryan Power, MSc UNB-SJ 2015. Co-supervised with Kelly Munkittrick and David Methven.
  • Thesis: Investigation of sand shrimp (Crangon septemspinosa) as a sentinel species in the Saint John Harbour, Bay of Fundy, Canada.