Sina Zarini

Sina is currently a PNB teaching postdoctoral fellow.  Sina ireceived his BSc in Animal Biology from the Urmia University and his MSc in Marine Biology (Marine Animals) from the Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran, Iran.  During his MSc which was supervised by Dr. Bahram Kiabi and Dr. Asghar Abdoli, Sina studied the effect of riprap, one of the most common human-made structures for coastal hardening, on gobies abundance and species composition in the southern Caspian Sea coast.  Sina came to ABEL, McMaster and Canada to work on his PhD.  He is broadly nterested in fish behaviour, physioogy and ecology.  He has done research on how anthropogenic environmental changes (habitat alteration, invasions of exotic species) influences behaviour and populations. For his PhD Sina examine the life history, movement ecology, diet and feeding behaviour of the invasive round goby.