Projects

Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture (NSFA)

Living Lab - Nova Scotia

PhD – University of Guelph

No evidence of a common pattern of taxon or phylogenetic diversity across elevation for beetle (Coleoptera) families

Heat tolerance decreases and cold tolerance increases with elevation for a species-rich insect family on a tropical volcano

Changes in cuticular lipids of Staphylinidae community across elevation at the Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Ant thermal tolerance along a field-forest gradient in Guelph, Ontario

MSc – Dalhousie University

A method to measure terrestrial arthropod movement in the laboratory, in the dark

Carabid diversity across space and time, and the dispersal ability of Harpalus rufipes in Nova Scotia lowbush blueberry fields

Feeding behaviours of two abundant early spring carabid species found in Nova Scotia lowbush blueberry fields

BSc – Dalhousie University

Blueberry spanworm parasitoid populations in Nova Scotia lowbush blueberry fields

Educational Resources

Smith Lab common stats in R guide

Academic Partnerships

I maintain active partnerships with researchers at the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus (Nova Scotia, Canada), Acadia University (Nova Scotia, Canada), and at the State University of Minas Gerais (Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, UEMG), Brazil, where I am involved in agricultural entomology/ecology projects, exploratory ecology, and biostatistics work.

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