People

I advise undergraduate and graduate students in the Biology and Earth Sciences Departments at Carleton University.

I am funded by an NSERC Discovery Grant, NSERC Alliance Grant in collaboration with Dr. Maddin, Dr. Miyashita, and the New Brunswick Museum, and New Frontiers in Research Fund Grant with Dr. Clément Bataille. 

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Present

TBD

Past

Ashley Reynolds (Mitacs Post-Doctoral Fellow, Nature Foundation and University of Ottawa, co-supervisor: Jeremy Kerr)

Dr. Howard Huynh (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Beaty Centre for Species Discovery, Canadian Museum of Nature, co-supervisor: Kamal Khidas)

Graduate Students

Incoming

PhD

Nathan Cochran (Earth Sciences, Carleton University; Co-adviser: Dr. Hillary Maddin) – synapsid systematics and ontogeny

MSc

Piper Hattenbach (Earth Sciences, Carleton University; Co-adviser: Dr. Hillary Maddin) – Pleistocene Bison morphology

Current

PhD

Lea Veine-Tonizzo (Earth Sciences, Carleton University; Co-adviser: Dr. Hillary Maddin) – Systematics and macroecology of Pleistocene rodents in Canada

Matthew Brenning (Earth Sciences, Carleton University, co-supervisor: Dr. Hanika Rizo) – Stable isotopes from caribou antlers as records of ecological change

Zoe Landry (Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Ottawa, primary supervisor: Dr. Clement Bataille) – Systematics and ecology of late Pleistocene Beringian Equus

Trystan Warnock-Juteau (Earth Sciences, Carleton University; Co-advisers: Dr. Hillary Maddin, Dr. Tetsuto Miyashita) – Actinopterygian taxonomic and ecomorphological diversity from New Brunswick, Canada

MSc

Eleanor Spence (Earth Sciences, Carleton University; Co-advisers: Dr. Hillary Maddin, Tetsuto Miyashita) – Shape analysis of Carboniferous foot prints from New Brunswick

Past

PhD

Misha Whittingham (Earth Sciences, Carleton University; Co-adviser: Dr. Hillary Maddin) – Assessing the ecology of Permo-Carboniferous tetrapods using morphological data and floral associations

MSc

Caleb Bohus (Earth Sciences, Carleton University; Primary adviser: Dr. Hillary Maddin) – Description of an Illinois Coleosteid

Ashan Ayanarajan (Earth Sciences, Carleton University; Co-advisers: Dr. Jordan Mallon, Dr. Lyle Nelson) – Bovid and ceratopsian horn cores as climate indicators

Blue Hunter-Moffatt (Earth Sciences, Carleton University, co-supervisor: Dr. Hillary Maddin) – Phylogenetics of North American Gomphotheres

Zoe Landry (Biology, Carleton University, co-supervisor: Dr. Root Gorelick) – Ecological changes among 20th century Arctic mammals

Matthew Brenning (Earth Sciences, Carleton University, co-supervisor: Dr. Hillary Maddin) – Stable isotope variation within caribou antlers

Brigid Christison (Biology, Carleton University, co-supervisor: Dr. Jeff Dawson) – Niche partitioning among North American carnivorous mammals

Undergraduate Students

Incoming

Sophia Blakey (Biology, Carleton University, co-supervisor: Dr. Roslyn Dakin) – Body sizes of modern and Pleistocene caribou in Canada

Present

Sarah Sleigh (Earth Sciences, Carleton University, co-supervisor: Dr. Peter Crockford) – The comparative dietary ecology of Pleistocene and modern wolverines from the Yukon

Past

Tyler Zielonka (Biology, Carleton University) – Tooth wear in Yukon mammoths

Andrew Kawam (Earth Sciences, Carleton University, co-supervisor: Dr. Hillary Maddin) – Role of the Cambrian substrate revolution in the diversification of early Deuterostomes and the origin of the vertebrate body plan

Derek Wilson (Earth Sciences, Carleton University, co-supervisor: Dr. Ashley Reynolds) – Litter size comparison of wolves and fennec fox

Andrew Kawam (Earth Sciences, Carleton University) – Microtus body size across Canada

Mark Dolan (Earth Sciences, Carleton University, co-supervisor: Dr. Ashley Reynolds) – Canid life-history strategies.

Zoe Waller (Dean’s Summer Research Internship, Biology, University of Carleton) – tooth wear in Pleistocene and modern mammals.

Naomi Major (Biology, University of Ottawa, co-supervisors: Dr. Howard Huynh, Dr. Emily Standen) – stable isotope variations in fossil caribou antler

Prieyankaa Nirmalan (Biology, University of Ottawa, co-supervisors: Dr. Howard Huynh, Dr. Emily Standen) – tooth wear in extant and extinct ursids from the Yukon

Romain Palmgren (Earth Sciences, Carleton University, co-supervisor: Dr. Hillary Maddin) – Phylogeny and biogeography of Cenozoic ursids

Logan Micucci (Earth Sciences, Carleton University, co-supervisor: Dr. Fred Gaidies) – Body size distributions of modern and Pleistocene Yukon wolves

Blue Hunter-Moffatt (Earth Sciences, Carleton University) – Speciation and extinction rates of Neogene mammals of North America

Emily Dyer (Earth Sciences, Carleton University) – Stable isotope ecology of Neogene mammals of North America

Blue Hunter-Moffatt (NSERC USRA, Earth Sciences, Carleton University) – Speciation and extinction rates of Neogene mammals of North America

Ryan Mendonca (Earth Sciences, Carleton University, co-supervisor: Dr. Hillary Maddin) – Body size dimorphism among polar bears of the Northwest Territories, Canada

Zoe Landry (Earth Sciences, Carleton University, co-supervisor: Dr. Hillary Maddin) – Ecological shifts among Yukon wolves from the Pleistocene to modern

Ashan Ayanarajan (Earth Sciences, Carleton University, co-supervisor: Dr. Tim Patterson) – Re-description of a polar bear-sized creodont from the Cypress Hills, Hemipsalodon grandis

Mat Roloson (Biology, Carleton University, co-supervisor: Dr. Root Gorelick) – Evolution of mammal functional diversity gradients in North America

Brigid Christison (Earth Sciences, Carleton University, co-supervisor: Dr. Fred Gaidies) – Niche partitioning among late Eocene carnivorous mammals of the Cypress Hills

Kim Duff (Earth Sciences, Carleton University, o-supervisor: Dr. Hillary Maddin) – Earliest Paleocene microvertebrates of Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan