People

Current Lab Members

Kim Cuddington (PI)

Theoretical and Population Ecology

Debora Peirera

PhD candidate

Temperature variation and duckweed population growth

Eddie Wu

MSc Candidate

Black carp on temperature

Past Members

Champ Lin

BSc honours thesis 2022

Temperature variation and pea aphid reproduction

Madison Brook

MSc 2021

Asian carp, temperature and age at first reproduction. Now working at DFO

Julie Wright

BSc 2021

Best undergraduate technician for over 2 years: pea aphid reproduction under varying temperatures

Sara Claussen

BSc ongoing

Amazing co-op student Winter 2021: Microclimate temperatures in river environments

John Drake

MA 2018 (applied math)

An integral projection model for giant hogweed

Laura Bell

MSc 2015

A stress-induced flip from predation to mutualism.

Currently: Plant health technician, Canopy Growth Corporation

Wonhyo Lee

MSc 2015

Population growth and establishment of Caenorhabditis elegans in a positively autocorrelated environment

Yidan Xu

BSc honours thesis 2015

Modelling C.elegans population response to temperature fluctuations

Currently: Water User Data Management Officer, Ontario Ministry of the Environment

Zach (Tasker) Hull

Technician 2013-2014

Coding for the exact solution of birthday problem for boys and girls (and Asian Carp). 3D scanning of plant morphology.

Robert Gooding-Townsend

Undergraduate Technician 2013

Stage-structured models of C. elegans.

Currently: Science in Society editor, Science Borealis

Stephi Sobek-Swant

Postdoctoral Fellow 2010-2012

Ecological niche models of Emerald Ash Borer

Currently: Executive Director, rare Charitable Research Reserve, Cambridge, Ontario

Brad Vermunt

MSc 2011

Temperatures experienced by Emerald Ash Borer and other wood-boring Beetles in the under-bark microclimate

Currently: Screenwriter

Paula Reynolds

MSc 2011

The effects of plant gross morphology on the foraging efficiencies of generalist predators

currently: Owner/Operator Salad Days Organic Farm

Melissa Galicia

BSc Honours Thesis 2011

Currently: PhD Candidate, York University

Stephen Taerum

Technician 2008-2009

Currently: Postdoc, Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Natalie Buchman

MS 2008 Ohio University

Influences of pea morphology and interacting factors on pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum)

An Army of Undergraduate Technicians