people
Lab PI
Steven Vamosi (2003 - present; smvamosi+ucalgary.ca) - ecology, evolution, and conservation, esp. aquatic speciesCurrent Lab Members
Emma Grégoire (MSc, 2023 - present), co-supervised with Ben Barst - impacts of beavers on montane creeks
Jonas Stadfeld (PhD, 2025 - present), co-supervised with Srijak Bhatnagar - impacts of microplastics on aquatic ecosystemsFormer Lab Members
Postdoctoral Scholars
Dr. Christie Sampson (PDF, 2019 - 2022) - bull trout range expansion and contraction
Dr. Don Yee (PDF, 2007) - dispersal, intraguild predation, and niche differences in diving beetles.
PhD students
Emily Baumgartner (PhD, 2019 - 2024) - population structure of long-toed salamanders
Haley Glass (PhD, 2015 - 2020) - chemical ecology of rough-skinned newts
Chandra Venables (PhD, 2009 - 2016) - phylogenetics of diving beetles
Stephen Hausch (PhD, 2009 - 2015; co-supervised with Jeremy Fox) - species coexistence and character displacement
Stefan Dennenmoser (PhD, 2009 - 2013; co-supervised with Sean Rogers) - phylogeography of prickly sculpin
Bianca Wohlfahrt (PhD, 2005 - 2010) - interactions between diving beetles and odonates
MSc students
Tara Lepine (MSc, 2022 - 2024): conservation translocations of bull trout
Jared Connoy (MSc student; 2020 - 2022) - crash of chinook salmon in Teslin, YT
Charity Blaney (MSc student; 2019 - 2022) - impacts of roads and fish on long-toed salamanders
Hannah Kienzle (MSc, 2015 - 2018) - impacts of non-native species on body shape evolution in stickleback
Doug Curley (MSc, 2015 - 2018) - impacts of non-native species on diet specialization in stickleback
Emma Carroll (MSc, 2014 - 2017) - population genetics of native bull trout
Stevi Vanderzwan (MSc, 2011 - 2015; co-supervised with Sean Rogers) - local adaptation in Alaskan threespine stickleback
Cory Kremer (MSc, 2019 - 2013; co-supervised with Sean Rogers) - landscape genetics of brook stickleback
Carly Silver (MSc, 2007 - 2010) - ecology of temporary ponds
Daynika Schade (MSc, 2006 - 2008) - effects of larval competition on adult fitness in bruchid beetles
Chandra Venables (MSc, 2005 - 2007; co-supervised with Derek Sikes) - testing for a rapid radiation in the genus Nicrophorus
Undergraduate students [* co-supervised]
Abigail Abbe (NSERC URA, 2025 – 2025) - macroinvertebrates in beaver canals
Josie Clark (URA, 2025 – 2025) - learning in ground beetles
Olivia Wutzke (NSERC URA, 2024 – 2025) - macroinvertebrates in beaver dam complexes
Ryan Ray (URA, 2024 – 2025) - beaver impacts on water mercury levels
Andres Macia Cajiao (URA, 2024 – 2025) - correlates of extinction risk in Canadian birds
Iga Mielczarek* (URA, 2024 – 2025) - urban impacts on play behaviour in coyotes
Carmen Chan* (URA, 2024 – 2025) - systematics and evolution of Aedes mosquitoes
Sadie Popoff* (URA, 2023 – 2024) - distribution of liver flukes in Elk Island National Park
Alice Hartley (NSERC URA, 2023) - characterizing variation in bull trout redd sites
Hannah Purdy (URA, 2023) - species at risk overlap with the proposed CNC
Rachel Glessing (URA, 2023) - associations between macroinvertebrate diversity and amphibian populations
Nika Tovchyhrechko (URA, 2022) - macroinvertebrate community dynamics in long-toed salamander ponds
Jonas Stadfeld (URA, 2021; NSERC URA, 2022) - tracking the early spread of an invasive crayfish
Sarah Knude (PURE URA, 2021) - crash of chinook salmon in Teslin, YT
Thuy-Ann Tran (PURE URA, 2021) - measuring lanthanide concentrations using lanmodulin
Heidi Wicker (URA, 2020 - 2021) - aposematism in long-toed salamanders
Tessa Wolf Leg (ISSP URA, 2020) - engaging Indigenous youth with land-based learning
Jared Connoy (NSERC URA, 2020) - macroinvertebrate surveys and bull trout habitat identification
Carina Lai (NSERC URA, 2019) - eDNA efficacy in wetland habitats
Jade Spruyt (URA, 2017 - 2018) - body condition in rough-skinned newts
Alyssa Thompson (PURE URA, 2016 - 2017) - ecology of grassland springs
Rachel Redick (NSERC URA, 2014 - 2016) - population genetics of non-native Scotch Broom
Nicole Courchesne (URA, 2015 - 2016) - mtDNA variation in bull trout
Allison Hay (URA, 2015 - 2016) - intraspecific variation in DNA barcodes
Rianne Diepstraten (NSERC URA, 2013) - comparing phylogenetic community structure metrics
Alison Banwell (PURE URA, 2013) - status of DNA barcode data for Canadian diving beetles
Garrett Oetelaar (PURE URA, 2010) - community structure in montane diving beetles
Katelyn Shortt (URA, 2009-2010) - study of invasive legume (Caragana arborescens)
Susan Cousineau (PURE URA, 2008-2009) - Neotropical palms; coastal diving beetle communities
Sacha O'Regan (NSERC URA, 2009) - feeding preferences of larval diving beetles
Sierra Love (URA, 2008) - ecology of temporary ponds.
Catherine Gieysztor (URA, 2008) - community ecology of diving beetles
Stacy Kallweit (URA, 2007) - multiple mating in bruchid beetles
Stacy Taylor (URA, 2007) - habitat preferences in diving beetles
Jared Rowell (URA, 2007) - ecology of diving beetles
Cynthia Naydani (URA, 2005-2007) - environmental correlates of diving beetle distributions
Meagan Russell (NSERC URA, 2006) - competition and fitness in female bruchid beetles
Terra Lesack (URA, 2005) - larval competition and female fecundity in bruchid beetles
Bryan Hensel (URA, 2005) - mineral provisioning and seed size in mustards and legumes
Tiffany Taggart (URA, 2004-2005) - seed size of angiosperms from different floras
Brad Jones (PGRA, 2004) - oviposition preference in female bruchid beetles
