Congratulations to Christine Grams and Hannah Stormer for being awarded NSERC CGS-M scholarships for their M.Sc. studies – well done!
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Photographing mites on the wing
Andrew with a Red-breasted Nuthatch Feather mites on White-throated Sparrow feather
Andrew Cook is in the field with Beth Blanchette, photographing live feather mites on the wings of birds mist-netted at the Beaverhill Bird Observatory southeast of Edmonton. The images will allow Andrew to measure the distances between the barbs of feathers and see how the mites nestle themselves among them.
Congratulations to Zhuoyan Song on his Ph.D. defence!
Zhuoyan successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis “Disentangling a freshwater amphipod–acanthocephalan system from ecological and molecular perspectives” on 29 Nov 2018. To disentangle the system he dissected more than 80,000 Gammarus lacustris from water bodies in and near Edmonton to assess prevalence of Polymorphus spp. acanthocephalans (the red blobs in the amphipods below).
Arachnology Symposium at the 2018 joint Entomological Society of Canada/Ent Soc America meeting in Vancouver
A great set of talks ranging from spider phylogeny to solfugid sex.
Back row (left to right): Jason Bond, Wayne Maddison, Shahan Derkarabetian, Robb Bennett, Janet Sperling, Susan Anthony
Front row (left to right): Tierney Bougie, Sarah Crews, Lauren Esposito, Heather Proctor, Paula Cushing, Catherine Scott, Maydianne Andrade
Very front: Sean McCann