Congratulations to Marianne Gousy-Leblanc on earning an NSERC PGS-D award, Gihyun Yoo for earning an OGS-MSc award, and Shay Kroeze for earning an OGS-PhD award! (I am so honoured to be working with such an amazing group of students!) -Vicki
Chris Boccia’s paper on semi-aquatic anoles published in Current Biology!
Friesen Lab PhD student Chris Boccia’s work on semi-aquatic Anolis lizards (from his MSc thesis at the University of Toronto) has now been published in Current Biology! Chris found a fascinating novel behaviour that these streamside lizards perform while diving–‘rebreathing’! Semi-aquatic anoles exhale and reinhale […]
Drew Sauve’s paper “The effects of weather on avian growth and implications for adaptation to climate change” published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution!
PhD student Drew Sauve’s paper entitled “The effects of weather on avian growth and implications for adaptation to climate change” was just published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution! The paper can be accessed here Congrats, Drew!
Emma Lachance-Linklater successfully defends her MSc thesis!
On Dec. 21st, 2020, Friesen Lab MSc student Emma Lachance-Linklater defended her thesis on the population genomic structure of glaucous gulls (Larus hyperboreus) in the Canadian Arctic. Congrats Emma!
Press coverage–Maleeka Thaker’s work on reducing bird window strikes at Queen’s
Friesen Lab student Maleeka Thaker’s recent success in getting deterrent film applied to bird strike prone windows on Queen’s campus has received some press coverage! Maleeka’s research and recommendations to the Queen’s Office of Sustainability have been covered in the Queen’s Gazette and the Kingstonist. Congrats Maleeka!