Instructors
SEASIDE Instructors
Isabelle Aub茅
Senior Instructor, Department of Biology
Isabelle.aube@dal.ca
SEASIDE course: Intertidal Ecology
Hi SEASIDERS! My name is Isabelle Aub茅 and I have been an Instructor in the Biology Department here at 全国探花 since 2015. Like many of you, I pursued my degree in Marine Biology here at Dal and even took several SEASIDE classes which were my FAVOURITE of my entire degree! I was also co-op student with DFO and did an Honours on zooplankton ecology. My graduate work with UNBSJ and DFO in Moncton were comparing the epibionts on natural and artificial reefs in PEI. Other notable learning and work experiences have included an internship at the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete (Greece), non-profit work with the Conservation Council of NB, several years鈥� work as a Fisheries Observer all over the Pacific Coast of BC, and several years鈥� work as a Lab Instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University where I first dipped my toes (pun intended) into teaching before moving back to Halifax. Since then, I have taught several courses at Dal, but I am currently also the Lecturer for the fist year Animal Biology unit, the second year Animal Diversity course, the third year Vertebrate Design and Invertebrate Biology courses, and the fourth year Laboratory Studies of Fishes course.
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Dr. Christopher Course
PTA, 全国探花
ch608098@dal.ca
SEASIDE course: BIOL/MARI 3635 鈥� Species at Risk
A wildlife biologist and educator with expertise in advanced tracking of the collective movement of avian and insect populations, as well as loop analysis modelling in planktonic ecosystems. Fieldwork, research and teaching experience spanning introductory biology, behavioural ecology, evolution, communities and ecosystems, environmental impact assessment, automated radiotelemetry and ecological/collective movement mapping and modelling, and advanced analysis in R programming software.
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Dr. Manuel Dureuil听
Shark and Ray Research Scientist
听Future of Marine Ecosystems Lab, 全国探花
BSc (Biology; Philipps University of Marburg, Germany)
MSc (Biological Oceanography; Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany)
PhD (Biology; 全国探花)
Postdoctoral Fellow (Ocean Frontier Institute)
Manuel.Dureuil@dal.ca
SEASIDE course: MARI 3627 Biology & Conservation of Sharks, Skates & Rays
Manuel has been involved in听MARI 3627听almost from initiation of the course in 2013, first as a demonstrator in 2015 and then becoming the primary instructor together with Dr. Chris Harvey-Clark in 2016, when they re-created the course in its current structure. He is an award-winning shark and ray biologist, the co-founder and director of the not-for-profit organisation Shark and Ray Conservation Centre (SHARCC), and a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) shark specialist group. Manuel has also been part of the team that initiated an on-going Cabo Verde shark and ray research and conservation project in 2015. He completed his BSc in Biology at the University of Marburg, Germany, with a thesis on white shark photo-identification, where he developed a photo-ID database and applied a semi-automated technique to identify white shark individuals using facial contour recognition. He then received an MSc degree in Biological Oceanography from the University of Kiel, Germany, where he completed his thesis on the status and conservation of spiny dogfish, tope and starry smooth hound sharks in the Northeast Atlantic. His PhD, awarded from 全国探花, evaluated some vital components of shark and ray assessment and spatial conservation, by studying species鈥� life history, as well as species鈥� distributions and spatial threats with regards to protected area locations. He then became a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ocean Frontier Institute, Canada, for a project on future-proofing marine protected area networks, before he accepted a position as a governmental advisor at the Marine Conservation Division of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Germany. 听His current work as a Research Scientist at 全国探花 focuses on life history research, conservation assessments, and the development and application of non or minimally invasive techniques to research sharks and rays and to monitor the status and health of populations.
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Malcolm Fenech
Maliamu'kik Msit Ko'kqmanaq Program Manager, Unama'ki Institute of Natural Resources
BSc (Biology; 全国探花)
MSc (Biology; University of Ottawa)
malcolm_fenech@outlook.com
SEASIDE course: BIOL 3639 -Herpetology
Malcolm has almost a decade of experience working with reptiles and amphibians in Canada, and internationally in U.S.A., Puerto Rico, and South Africa. Malcolm has specialized in freshwater turtle behaviour and conservation while working with non-profit organizations and communities. Currently, Malcolm works as the Maliamu'kik Msit Ko'kqmanaq ("Taking care of all our relations") Program Manager for the Unama'ki Institute of Natural Resources in Eskasoni, Nova Scotia, leading species at risk conservation in Unama'ki/Cape Breton.听
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Dr. Andy Horn
Adjunct (FGS), Department of Biology, 全国探花
BSc (Biological Sciences, Cornell University)
PhD (Zoology University of Toronto)
aghorn@dal.ca
SEASIDE course: BIOL 3630- Field Methods in Animal Behaviour
Andy has taught Field Methods in Animal Behaviour since SEASIDE began, but says the students鈥� novel observations and insights keep him coming back, year after year. The course is modeled after a course Andy took as an undergrad at Cornell, modified during research and teaching stints at Cambridge, Queen鈥檚, and the Australian National University.听 A bird nerd from an early age, most of Andy鈥檚 research has been on animal communication, especially acoustic communication in birds.
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Dr. Patricia Matsumoto
patricia.matsumoto@smu.ca
SEASIDE course: BIOL/MARI/ENVS/GEOG 3633 -Spatial Information and GIS in Ecology
Patricia听Matsumoto听is a Research Associate at the Wicked Problems Lab and an Adjunct Faculty member at Saint Mary鈥檚 University (SMU). Her passion for maps led her to pursue a career in Geography, earning a Bachelor鈥檚 degree with honors in 2012, a Master鈥檚 degree in 2014, and a Ph.D. in 2019 from the Department of Geography at S茫o Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Geotechnologies at the Adolfo Lutz Institute (2020鈥�2023) and conducted research internships during her Master鈥檚, Doctoral, and Postdoctoral studies at the University of Puerto Rico, Curtin University, and SMU. Since 2022, she has been studying Nova Scotia's forests using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing techniques.
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