Ian Gordon

As a research technician in the Dill Lab, my job involves keeping the lab running smoothly on a daily basis. My current area of interest involves the foraging tactics of the green-spotted puffer fish (Tetraodon nigroviridis) and how these tactics change with variations in prey size.

Jordy Thomson

My research currently focuses on two themes.  I am primarily interested in sub-lethal effects of large marine predators on mid-level consumer behaviour.  My Ph.D. work asks how marine turtles on a feeding ground in Shark Bay, Western Australia, respond to variation in tiger shark density in terms of habitat use patterns and diving behaviour.  Secondarily, I am interested in how variation in diving and surfacing patterns of long-diving taxa, which include marine turtles and some marine mammals, influences detection probability on surveys for abundance.

Brendan Connors

Justin Suraci

I'm an MSc student interested in the social and ecological factors affecting prey choice decisions in foraging animals. My research focuses on gulls foraging on the sea star Pisaster ochraceus in intertidal areas of coastal British Columbia. Gulls feed on a wide range of Pisaster sizes and size choices may dependent upon the interaction between several factors, including energetic profitability, non-energetic benefits (e.g. nutrient and/or medicinal considerations), and the potential for resource joining/kleptoparasitism by other foraging group members. Teasing apart the relative contributions of each of these factors towards foraging motivations is the impetus for my project.

Don White

I am a MSc student doing interdisciplinary work under Special Arrangements with the Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies.  My interest focuses on controversies and issues which have arisen over the application of evolutionary theory to human behaviour: specifically debates concerning the relevance of fitness, optimality theory, and adaptationism.