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Current students

all McGill student email addresses have the form firstname.lastname@mail.mcgill.ca

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Cameron So

PhD.

Conservation genomics of at-risk plants

website

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Olivia Rahn

MSc.

Does habitat availability decline toward species range edges?

(she/they - either is fine)

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Kristin Olson

PhD.

Understanding white trillium's current range and predicting it's future under climate warming

(she/her)

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Simon Petley

MSc.

The role of soil in limiting the northern distribution of an at-risk legume

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James Connolly

MSc.

How often and far to plants disperse seeds beyond their current range?

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Sophie Krouse

BSc Honours thesis.

Does predation become more specialized at lower latitudes?

(she/ her or they - either is fine)

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Leia Swayze

BSc Honours thesis.

Erasing female leads: how accurately do kids movies portray female power in animal societies?

Lab alumni (sniff. we miss you!)
thesis/project title and where they went next...

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Rajapandian Kanagaraj  Post doc.

Where will cold-adapted arctic birds breed in a warmer future?

now postdoc​ in Germany

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Jory Griffith MSc 2023.

Urbanization flattens latitudinal diversity gradients in birds

now data analyst at GEO Bon Canada

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Nora Bartram-Forbes BSc honours thesis 2024.

Community indicators of white trillium population health

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Shannon Meadley Dunphy. PhD.

Neighbour shifts from hosts to competitors across the ranges of hemi-parasitic plants

working for the Nature Conservancy, Manitoba

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Maggie Blondeau MSc. 2023

Reproduction and biotic interactions toward the northern range edge of an at-risk lupine

(thesis)

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Antonio Rodriguez-Campbell MSc. 2023

What drives the intensity of species interactions? A distributed experiment from the Arctic to Patagonia

(he/him). (thesis, paper on why clay models are not great for biogeographic studies)

working as biological consultant, Montreal

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Ella Martin  MSc. 2022

Testing biogeographic theories with syntheses of plant traits

(thesis, published paper)

pursuing PhD at University of Toronto

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Marie Hardouin. BSc Honours thesis 2021.

Identifying hotspots of Canada's at-risk flora and fauna

(thesis, published paper)

working at Ecomuseum Zoo on west island

look at these sweet pollinator mittens Vida knit!

Vida Javidi BSc Honours thesis 2021.

Experimental manipulations of seed defenses

(thesis)

research technician at Mass Eye and Ear clinic

Cole Larsen MSc. 2020.

Use and production of miniature landscapes to study species distributions

(thesis, publication)

science teacher in California

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Josh Persi MSc. 2020.

Elevational patterns in seed fates: experimental tests in the Rocky Mountains

(thesis)

working at Canadian Food Inspection Agency

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Emma Dawson-Glass. BSc Honours thesis 2020.

Does pollen limitation increase toward plant species range edges? (published paper)

research technician at Holden arboretum, now pursuing PhD at U Michigan

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Alexandra Paquette.BSc Honours thesis 2020.

Review: what determines species' high elevation and latitude range limits?

(published paper)

doing a PhD in Biology at McGill

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Clara Kitt (they/them). BSc 2020.

Chemical seed defenses to deter ant predation: a lab experiment. (thesis)

lab manager at Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children's Hospital

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Pascale Caissy. BSc Honours thesis 2019.

Range position vs conservation status & protection of Canadian plants at risk. (published paper)

did MSc at Laval, now working at Department of Fisheries and Oceans

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Victor Cameron. BSc Honours thesis 2019.

Range position vs conservation risk of Canadian mammals. (published paper)

did MSc at U Sherbrooke, data analyst at Biodiversité Quebec

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Mikayla Salmon-Beitel. BSc Independent Study 2018.

Small mammal abundance vs. seed predation along elevation gradients in Alberta

doing Masters of Social Work at Universite de Montreal

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Noemie Sheppard. BSc Independent Study 2018.

Elevational changes in seed predators, Alaska to Ecuador..

went on to MSc at Redpath Museum, McGill

Sandra Klemet-N'Guessan. BSc Independent Study 2017.

Dispersal evolution during bacterial range expansion.

finished PhD in Biology at Trent University, now working as NSERC post-doc

We live and work on the traditional territory of indigenous peoples, including the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk), in a place that has long served as a site of meeting and exchange among nations.
anna.hargreaves <at> mcgill <dot> ca​​
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