This year I finished my Master’s thesis, where I used acoustic tags to track the migration of Alewife in the Bay of Fundy.

This year I finished my Master’s thesis, where I used acoustic tags to track the migration of Alewife in the Bay of Fundy.
Fish tagging has been gaining popularity for decades, with biotelemetry now being the primary method used to study animal movements. But what is this technology, and why do we use it? Most of what we know about animal migrations today …
During the summer of 2017, I worked as a field technician for the Cape Breton Pilot Whale Project (CBPWP), founded by members of the Whitehead Lab at Dalhousie University to study the social structure and vocalizations of long-finned pilot whales …
If, as a child, your favorite channel was National Geographic, Sir David Attenborough was your idol, and you dreamed of growing up to work with wildlife, then perhaps you have considered a job in research and conservation. But what is …