Photo Gallery

Enjoying a boreal beach on Mistassini Lake after a day of outreach (2023; bottom left to top right: Julie Gibelli, Nicole Yu, Dylan Fraser, Sozos Michaelides, Badrouyk Chamlian, Thais Bernos and Pamela MacLeod (one of our collaborators from the Cree Nation of Mistissini)
Conducting common-garden experimentation of Cape Race brook trout within the Applied Science Hub at Concordia University (2023)
Using fyke nets to conduct mark-recapture studies of brook trout, Cape Race, Newfoundland (2023)
Getting ready to re-initiate mark-recapture studies of brook trout at Cape Race, Newfoundland (2023). Pictured are lab members Johnathan Lemay, Thais Bernos and Natalie Dupont
Cape Race field crew 2022 (left to right: Dylan Fraser, Jacob Cooncome, Alexandra Engler, Brian Gallagher, Brett Studden)
Typical male brook trout in spawning colours, Cape Race, NL. (fall 2021)
First time away from her 2 yr old toddler, here’s Kia Marin hoisting 600ft long gillnets from 50m depths in Lac Mistasinishish (Albanel) Quebec, as part of the FISHES project survey of lake trout population genomic structure.
Lac Mistasinishish (Albanel) in Eeyou Istchee, northern Quebec. Part of a survey of the lake’s fish community within Quebec’s largest wildlife reserve (summer 2021; Kia Marin pictured)
Field crew hiking into a study lake, Banff National Park
Sunset at Mistassini Lake, Quebec
Cutthroat trout, Banff National Park, Alberta
Lunch break with a view after a morning of electrofishing, Cape Race, Newfoundland (Pictures: Ashlee Prevost and Danielle MacRae
Dylan Fraser with a 26 pound pike sampled from Mistassini Lake, Quebec
Hyung-Bae Jeon and his extremely handy fish viewer, Cape Race, Newfoundland
Coolest brook trout ever! Fish on the right is unusual in missing rainbow colours (but has typical spot and vermiculation patterns), Cape Race, Newfoundland
‘YOY, waz up???’ (Young-of-the-year brook trout, Cape Race, Newfoundland)
One of our favourite streams at Cape Race, Newfoundland, home to perhaps the world’s smallest-sized dwarf landlocked Atlantic salmon…and a giant colourful population of Brook trout
Removing non-native brook trout from Kootenay National Park lakes, using manual techniques (in this case, gillnetting)
Sunrise at Mistassini Lake, Quebec
Cape Race, Newfoundland, where we study the evolution of small, isolated brook trout populations
Mistassini Lake (Quebec) field crew, 2018: Ella Bowles, Zach Eisenhauer, Dave Hardie, Emmett Gunner, Norman Neeposh and Dylan Fraser
Releasing a large (115cm) northern pike in Mistassini Lake, Quebec, as part of research efforts with the Cree Nation of Mistissini to determine population genomic structuring in the lake (2018)
Another large brook trout in pre-spawning colouration, part of population monitoring for the species in Mistassini Lake, Quebec
Banff National park research lake. Full of brook trout.
Early morning snow in Yoho National Park (British Columbia), one of our field sites where we are researching non-native brook trout with Parks Canada
Manipulating densities of juvenile brook trout to test long-standing questions about the role of density-dependence in population regulation, Cape Race, NL (part of Jean-Michel Matte’s PhD research)
Cape Race, Newfoundland, field crew (2018): Matthew Yates, Jean-Michel Matte, Jessamine Trueman, Danielle Mac Rae, Emily Housego, Dylan Fraser
Does it get any more beautiful? One of our field sites in Yoho National Park, British Columbia
One of many small, isolated streams terminating as waterfalls over cliffs in Cape Race, Newfoundland; we study small population evolution here. Thais Bernos and Andrew Habrich pictured
Part of community-based conservation efforts with the Cree Nation of Mistissini to promote sustainable harvesting practices of walleye
Electrofishing in small streams of Cape Race, Newfoundland
Population monitoring of brook trout with the Cree Nation of Mistissini, northern Quebec