Craig Purchase [B.Sc.(Hons), M.Sc. Memorial; Ph.D. Toronto]

Professor of Biology

Niels Van Miltenburg

Science Technician

Co-supervised with Shawn Leroux

Email nvanmiltenbu “at” mun.ca

Kyleisha Foote [Ph.D. Concordia; M.EM. Massey NZ; B.Sc. Massey NZ]

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biology

Co-supervised with Shawn Leroux

Project theme: Predicting salmon habitat at the landscape scale using remote sensing information

Tyler Breech [Ph.D. pending Idaho State; M.Sc. Mississippi; B.A. Lycoming]

Research Assistant II, Biology

Co-supervised with Ian Bradbury

Project theme: Local adaptation in redfish

Laura Knapwerth [M.Sc., B.Sc. Hamburg]

Ph.D. candidate, Biology

Co-supervised with Jen Perry (St. Francis Xavier University)

Project theme: Sexual selection in aquatic insects

Mikael Ranta [M.S. Nebraska; B.S. Lake Superior State]

Ph.D. candidate, Biology

Co-supervised with Shawn Leroux

Project theme: Variation in salmon productivity at watershed scales

Ava Hart [B.Sc. New Brunswick]

M.Sc. candidate, Biology

Co-supervised with Shawn Leroux

Project theme: Spawning migrations and spawning habitat of Atlantic salmon

Ky Schlosberg [B.Sc. Montana State]

M.Sc. Candidate, Biology

Project theme: Movement & colour in spawning ad-fluvial brownt trout (Salmo trutta): a unique case study

Nick Murphy

B.Sc. (Hons) candidate

Project theme: The role of energetic condition on lake habitat use in anadromous Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

NSERC USRA 2025, 2026

Student Research Assistant 2022, 2023, 2024

Sophia Yeroshenko

Nico Gill

Marcello Morais

Ashton Goodyear