Postdoctoral Researchers
Name: Grant Haines
Website: https://gehaines.weebly.com/
Google scholar: Grant Haines
From: United States of America
Study: Postdoctoral, Hólar University
Project: Ecology, life history, and selection in small charr populations (Microevolutionary processes in small populations).
Research description: I study the population ecology, life history evolution, and environmental pressures on Arctic charr populations in cave ponds near Mývatn. I am constructing pedigrees using DNA collected during monitoring since 2012, and using them to determine the relative importance of random variation, population-specific factors, and shared environmental factors across the landscape in shaping selection in these ponds.
Advisors: Bjarni Kristófer Kristjánsson and Camille Leblanc
Website: https://gehaines.weebly.com/
Google scholar: Grant Haines
From: United States of America
Study: Postdoctoral, Hólar University
Project: Ecology, life history, and selection in small charr populations (Microevolutionary processes in small populations).
Research description: I study the population ecology, life history evolution, and environmental pressures on Arctic charr populations in cave ponds near Mývatn. I am constructing pedigrees using DNA collected during monitoring since 2012, and using them to determine the relative importance of random variation, population-specific factors, and shared environmental factors across the landscape in shaping selection in these ponds.
Advisors: Bjarni Kristófer Kristjánsson and Camille Leblanc
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Masters students
Name: Alex Zinck
From: United States of America Study: MSc in Aquatic Biology, Hólar University Project: Physiological mechanisms underlying personality in the Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus). Advisor: David Benhaïm |
Name: Ben Andrews
From: Canada Study: MSc in Aquatic Biology, Hólar University in collaboration with the University of New Brunswick Project: Comparison of Diel Activity and Growth in Three Species of Stream-Dwelling Salmonids. Advisor: Stefán Óli Steingrímsson |
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Name: Friðþjófur Árnason
From: Iceland Study: MSc in Aquatic Biology, Hólar University, in collaboration with the Marine and Freshwater Institute Project: Density-dependent growth in juvenile stream-dwelling salmonids in Iceland. Advisor: Stefán Óli Steingrímsson |
Name: Kelsey Stansberry
From: United States of America Study: MSc in Aquatic Biology, Hólar University Project: Effects of prey distribution on resource defense behavior in juvenile Arctic charr. Advisor: Stefán Óli Steingrímsson |
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Name: Krystal Mannion
From: United States of America Study: MSc in Aquatic Biology, Hólar University Project: Diel activity in Arctic charr: Phenotypic and ecological determinants. Specifically, my thesis focuses the role of intraspecific competition (i.e. food availability), and individual differences in behavior, on diel activity and foraging patterns of juvenile Arctic charr. Advisor: Stefán Óli Steingrímsson |
Name: Margrét Thorsteinsson
From: Iceland Study: M.Sc. in Aquatic Biology, in collaboration with the University of Iceland's Research Centre of the Westfjords and the Westfjords Iceland Nature Research Centre Project: Habitat dynamics of wild anadromous Arctic charr and brown trout in Iceland, and the potential association with salmon lice infection. Advisors: Stefán Óli Steingrímsson and Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir |
Name: Michael Galloway
From: United States of America
Study: MSc in Aquatic Biology, Hólar University
Project: Diel activity in Arctic charr: Phenotypic and ecological
determinants. Specifically, my Masters thesis will focus on
metabolic rates as a "predictor" of diel activity; linking metabolic
rate (and scope) to daily activity of arctic charr in a semi-natural,
stream environment.
Advisor: Stefán Óli Steingrímsson
From: United States of America
Study: MSc in Aquatic Biology, Hólar University
Project: Diel activity in Arctic charr: Phenotypic and ecological
determinants. Specifically, my Masters thesis will focus on
metabolic rates as a "predictor" of diel activity; linking metabolic
rate (and scope) to daily activity of arctic charr in a semi-natural,
stream environment.
Advisor: Stefán Óli Steingrímsson
Doctoral students
Name: Alessandra Schnider
From: Switzerland Study: PhD, University of Iceland and Hólar University Project: ECO-EVO-DEVO dynamics of biodiversity - Mývatn threespine stickleback as a model. Advisors: Bjarni Kristófer Kristjánsson at Hólar University and Zophonías Jónsson at University of Iceland |
Name: Christian Beuvard
From: France Study: PhD student from the University of Iceland Project: The effect of different parameters (oxygen, CO2 and temperature) on growth and metabolism in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus). Advisor: Helgi Thorarensen |
Name: Dan Govoni
From: United States of America Study: PhD , University of Iceland and Hólar University Project: Surface and subsurface community and food web dynamics across a thermal gradient in Icelandic streams. Advisor: Bjarni Kristófer Kristjánsson |
Name: Gabrielle Ladurée
From: France Study: PhD, University of Iceland and Hólar University Project: Space use, social systems, and personality in stream-dwelling salmonids. Advisor: Stefán Óli Steingrímsson |
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Name: Sabine B. C. Lobligeois
From: France Study: PhD, University of Iceland and Hólar University Project: Development of personality traits in farmed Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus). Advisor: David Benhaïm |
Name: Safina Musa
From: Kenya Study: PhD Project: Effects of feeding rates and fertilazation on water quality dynamics, growth and economic performance of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). Advisor: Helgi Thorarensen |
Name: Sigurður Árnason
From: Iceland
Study: PhD, University of Iceland
and Hólar University
Project: Studying the fine scale ecological drivers of phenotypic
diversity in populations of Small Benthic Arctic Charr from
spring fed streams, ponds, caves, and hydroelectric reservoirs
throught the volcanically active zone of Iceland.
Advisor: Bjarni K. Kristjánsson
From: Iceland
Study: PhD, University of Iceland
and Hólar University
Project: Studying the fine scale ecological drivers of phenotypic
diversity in populations of Small Benthic Arctic Charr from
spring fed streams, ponds, caves, and hydroelectric reservoirs
throught the volcanically active zone of Iceland.
Advisor: Bjarni K. Kristjánsson