Student Profile: Alex (Alejandro) Schmill
Alejandro (Alex) Schmill is a first-year MSc student, co-supervised by Dr. William Cheung and Dr. Margot Hessing-Lewis of the Hakai Institute.
Using environmental DNA to map biodiversity across Canada’s three oceans
The ability to detect the distribution of not only widespread, but also rare and endangered, species using eDNA allows researchers to identify critical habitats and biodiverse areas requiring protection.
IOF faculty and students win awards from the Peter Wall Legacy Awards program
These awards are one of the largest internal award programs at any university in North America. The suite of awards will support the research activities of tenure-track faculty members at all stages of their career, and those of Master’s and doctoral students.
Pelagic Ecosystems Lab wins BC Conservation & Biodiversity Award
The award will fund a project to provide high resolution zooplankton biodiversity data by integrating eDNA, and the Zooscan imaging system, to establish a biodiversity benchmark for the wider BC coast.