Speaker: Dr. Leigh McGaughey, Project Scientist, The River Institute
Title: “A finger on the pulse of the upper St. Lawrence River”
Time: Wednesday, May 8th, 2:30 – 3:30 PM
Location: Rm. 101, Kinesiology and Health Studies Building
Refreshments will be provided
Bio
Leigh is an ecologist, who started her career in South Africa where she completed a BSc (1994), BSc Honours (1995) and MSc (2000) degrees in Biological Sciences. In 2001 she moved to Australia and worked as a Research Assistant at Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute as part of the Abalone Research team to provide scientific support to the fishing industry. In 2005 she took up a scholarship for her PhD studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where she built an ecosystem model of a sub-Antarctic system which was used to explore past population dynamics and climate change scenarios. In 2010, Leigh was employed by the European Commission 91Ƭ ’s Joint Research Centre, based in Italy, as a Postdoctoral Grantholder where she worked on developing indicators for both fisheries and conservation applications.