The Department of Environment & Resource Studies is pleased to announce that PhD student Michael McTavish has formally been awarded the NSERC André Hamer Postgraduate Prize as the most outstanding candidate in NSERC’s doctoral scholarship competition.
Michael is a member the Restoration and Conservation Ecology group headed by Professor Stephen Murphy of Environment & Resource Studies. Michael's research focuses on how to measure how invasive earthworms are changing our ecosystems and the implications for both restoration ecology and the possible transition to what are called novel ecosystems - ones that have been so altered by humans that they no historical analogue or precedent. Steve Murphy said that "Even in a research group with so many excellent and award winning scholars, Michael's achievement is unprecedented".