Campus
- Mississauga (UTM)
Fields of Study
- Environment & Climate
- Physical Geography
Areas of Interest
Paleoclimate reconstruction, ecology, entomology
Supervisor
Trevor Porter
Cohort
2023-2024
Biography
I am a MSc student in physical geography studying southern Yukon paleoclimate reconstruction using midge head capsules. I completed my HBSc at the University of Toronto - Mississauga (UTM), with a major in biology and minors in environmental management and mathematical sciences.
Additionally, I am the current Secretary for the Toronto Entomologists' Association (TEA).
My past research includes an undergraduate project where I evaluated milkweed pollinator richness and abundance in urban and rural environments, collaborating on a COSEWIC Arthropod Status Report on a moth species in Ontario and evaluating the species' range in August 2021, and an undergraduate dendrochronology project reconstructing past climatic conditions using eastern white cedar in the Halliburton forest.
Publications
Breitbart, S, Tomchyshyn, A, Wagner, HH, & Johnson, MTJ (2022): Urbanization and a green corridor
influence reproductive success and pollinators of common milkweed. Urban Ecosystems, doi:
10.1007/s11252-022-01278-9.