People

Hannah is interested in how anthropogenic environmental impacts affect the social dynamics and group stability of gregarious fish.  She received a BSc in Biology and a BA in Psychology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she worked with Dr. Todd Freeberg to study the effects of road noise on songbird foraging rates and calling behaviour. Her current research project investigates how social fish adapt to fluctuating versus stable turbidity.

Adrienne Joined ABEL in September 2016.   Her PhD work will focus on the role of behaviour in the various stages of a species invasion. She is studying how behaviour can impacts invasion success, and can be most effectively used to inform management, assessment, and reproduction of invasive species.   Her research is based on the invasive round goby, in Hamilton Harbour, at the western end of Lake Ontario, and in tributaries leading into Lake Ontario.

Adrienne received her B.Sc. in Marine and Freshwater Biology from the University of Guelph, where she worked with Dr. Beren Robinson testing direct and indirect effects of invasive spiny water flea on walleye. She also received her M.Sc. from the University of Guelph in Integrative Biology with Dr. Robert McLaughlin where she tested behavioural explanations for low trapping success of a parasitic invasive fish species, the sea lamprey.