Biology PhD Student Andrea Reid Wins 2019 Partners in Research Young Researcher Ambassador Award

Prior to joining the lab of Dr. Steven J. Cooke at Carleton University, Andrea Reid completed her MSc at McGill where she studied the ecophysiology of fish in central Africa and generated two first author publications in peer reviewed outlets. However, she was already active in research as an undergraduate where she studied primate behaviour and earned authorship on two publications.

For her PhD Andrea is working in British Columbia where she is studying the migration biology of Pacific salmon. She has completed several field seasons during which she coordinated teams of assistants and collaborators in a remote part of the province. Her thesis includes a large social science component focused on understanding Indigenous perspectives. She interviewed 50 elders from across the province in an attempt to capture and preserve oral histories related to Pacific salmon. Beyond these core thesis activities Andrea has also taken lead on other activities: For a graduate course, Andrea led a group that considered how the environment had been “forgotten” in the most recent UN Sustainable Development Goals that generated a paper that was just published in a top-shelf environmental policy journal; She also led a team of 10 or so academic elite from around the globe (people like Drs John Smol, Klement Tockner, Steve Ormerod, Julian Olden) to assess emerging threats to freshwater biodiversity. That paper was just published in “Biological Reviews”. To date, she has conducted peer reviews for five academic journals and one granting agency.

Andrea has been recognized with a variety of accolades totalling more than half a million dollars. Andrea’s background with a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Engage Grant and her experience with securing competitive funding from National Geographic have prepared her for the world of grantsmanship.