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Bicentennial STARS: Using small animals to answer a large-scale question: Why do animals leave their habitats?
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 12:00to13:00
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Animals move to new altitudes, towards the poles, or deeper in our oceans in response to a myriad of environmental and individual factors. Ecologists have attempted to unravel these potential factors, but the results are largely contradictory or even inconclusive to date. That’s because it is usually too difficult to gather enough data on animal whereabouts over large periods of time – except when using toads!
Nathalie Jreidini is a PhD student in the Green lab at the Redpath Museum. In this talk, she will go over three main topics: (1) What collecting field data on toad displacements looks like, (2) How toad movements can be used to revisit animal dispersal theories, and (3) Why changes in animal habitats are studied in relation to human well-being, culture and health.
About STARS
STARS (Scientists Talk About Research for Staff) is a series of special lunch-hour talks and visits to science related sites and institutes specifically for Faculty of Science support staff.
Bicentennial STARS for 2021
To honour McGill's Bicentennial year, STARS is celebrating young McGill scientists with seven monthly lunch-hour presentations that will take you behind the scenes to never before seen labs and experimental research areas where graduate students will share all kinds of insights into their work and research efforts.
The Bicentennial STARS series will be co-hosted by student ambassadors, Yael and Micaela Lewis, twin sisters in their fifth year of a BSc in Biology, both minoring in Natural History. Yael and Micaela have been very involved in the McGill Debating Union, and are excited to bring together their passions for science and communication as student ambassadors.