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The following is just a list of keywords that apply to my research, interests or career, as included in the Biology Department's list of graduate students & postdocs. It basically means I claim to know something about the following:

• Community Ecology, consequences of Biodiversity Loss, Biodiversity Science, habitat loss and fragmentation, climate change, shellfish aquaculture;
• moss, microarthropods (mites), nitrogen-fixing heterocystous cyanobacteria, intertidal marine invertebrates, marine bivalves;
• McGill Subarctic Research Station (Schefferville, Quebec), Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre;
• gas chromatography, Acetylene Reduction Assay (ARA; measuring N-fixation in the field), sediment analysis;
• Ordination, non-metric multidimensional Scaling (nMDS), multivariate analysis, experimental & field survey design;
• PRIMER (Plymouth Routines in Multivariate Ecological Research), JMP, R, Matlab
• LaTeX, BibTeX, Markdown, MultiMarkdown, X/HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Dreamweaver, web design standards & accessibility;
• Microsoft Word, Excel, Access (relational database set-up & form management, including distributed replicates of databases), EndNote, Adobe Illustrator, NoteBook, Mac & Windows;
• Bilingual (English & Français)

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News

• I was awarded 3rd Prize in the Student Oral Presentation Competition at 2011 CSEE annual meeting in Banff, Alberta this May. Thanks to everyone for all the helpful feedback, and to those who attended my talk at 8:45 AM!
• My collaboration with dr. Zoë Lindo has produced some exciting results! Read all about it:
  • Z. Lindo & J. A. Whiteley (2011) Old trees contribute bio-available nitrogen through canopy bryophytes. Plant and Soil, 342, 141-148.
• I'm also coordinating a Stats Workshop series in the Biology department, with a focus on R and peer-learning. Come join us to learn more.