The Arthropod Ecology lab is a busy place. It has desks, computers, and microscopes. Often, when walking into the lab, you see lots of students looking into microscopes:

The arthropod ecology lab.

Here are the current graduate students in the Arthropod Ecology Laboratory, at McGill University:

Gail MacInnis (PhD) is  interested in how bee diversity affects the yield and quality of agricultural food crops, with a particular focus on pollen deposition and foraging behaviour. She is co-supervised by Jessica Forrest at University of Ottawa.

Here is Gail. Sitting in a field.

Anne-Sophie Caron (MSc) is part of the BESS program, and will be doing a project in the neotropics, about forest diversity and herbivorous insects. She is co-supervised by Don Windsor, at STRI.

Anne-Sophie may be doing research in the neotropics, but she is also quite at home in a Montreal winter…

Shaun Turney (PhD) is studying terrestrial-based arctic food webs. Shaun can be reached at: shaun.turney@mail.mcgill.ca

Shaun, in the lab, thinking about food-webs.

Elyssa Cameron (MSc) is studying how the biodiversity of arthropods might match the diversity of ecosites present around Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. Elyssa can be reached at: elyssa.cameron@mail.mcgill.ca

Elyssa, hanging out in Nunavut.

Chris Cloutier (MSc) is studying the temporal and spatial patterns of mosquito communities at the Morgan Arboretum, near Macdonald Campus. Chris is co-supervised by Dr. Jim Fyles (Dept. Natural Resource Sciences). He can be reached at: christopher.cloutier@mail.mcgill.ca

Chris Cloutier: the man, the naturalist, the legend.

Sarah Loboda (PhD) is studying high Arctic communities of Muscidae flies, with a particular focus on long-term changes to their assemblages. Sarah is co-supervised by Dr. Jade Savage (Bishop’s University). Sarah can be reached at: sarah.loboda@gmail.com

Sarah in front of her awesome poster at an Entomological Society of Canada meeting. This poster was a runner-up for a prize!