I am a MSc. student in the Neuroecology and Ecotoxicology in Spatial Behaviour Lab, co-supervised by Mélanie Guigueno (McGill) and Jonathan Verreault (UQAM). I did my BSc. in Psychology at the University of Alberta with the intent to go into counselling. During my degree I joined the Animal Cognition Research Group, where I studied zebra finch social learning in the context of nest-building under Dr. Lauren Guillette, and fell in love with the world of research! I am broadly interested in animal cognition and (a)social learning, with particular interest in how the environment in which an individual lives influences these. My current project looks at the interplay between free-ranging foraging behaviour, spatial cognitive abilities, and brain metrics in ring-billed gulls. Additionally, we are examining the relationship of environmental contaminants within this interplay. 

Outside of my research, I am an avid amateur mycologist and botanist, and enjoy learning about traditional medicines often overlooked or forgotten by Western science.

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