Jessica Li, BSc (Honours)

Email:
jessli@zoology.ubc.ca

Alex Coverley, BA, MA

Email: coverley@zoology.ubc.ca

Emily Black

Email:
black.emily.nicole@gmail.com
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Katie Marshall

Associate Professor, UBC (2023 - )
Assistant Professor, UBC (2018 - 2023)
Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma (2016 - 2018)

NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC (2015 - 2016)
Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC (2013 - 2016)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Wilfrid Laurier University (2013)
PhD, University of Western Ontario (2007 - 2013)
BSc. (Hons), Acadia University (2003 - 2007


I fill in forms, and play with data any chance I get.

Jessica Li
PhD Candidate (co-supervised by Bill Milsom)
BSc (Honours), University of British Columbia (2020)

Metabolic scaling describes the relationship between metabolic rate and body size, but body size can change for many different reasons. I’m interested in asking how different forms of mass fluctuation affects metabolic scaling and looking at the underlying respiratory physiology. My Master’s research is currently focused on thirteen-lined ground squirrels, and asks how mass-specific metabolic rate changes throughout parturition, development from juvenile to adult life stages, and large, seasonal changes in mass in adults.

Alex Coverley
PhD Candidate
BA, MA

Is in charge of chasing dung beetles, measuring their metabolic rates, and modelling the results.

Emily Black
PhD Candidate
BSc (Honours), University of British Columbia (2022)

I am interested in how climate affects the phenology of invertebrates, and how citizen science can be used as a tool to gather large-scale data and predict ecological trends. Currently I am using iNaturalist citizen science records of the fall webworm (Hyphantria cunea) to determine if there is phenological evidence for an incipient speciation occurring between the red and black colour morphs of this species. I hope to discover if certain populations of H. cunea exhibit different phenology and why, quantify other large-scale life history and phenology patterns, and combine this existing research to determine if speciation is occurring.

Dr. Michael Belitz
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biology
PhD, University of Florida (2023)
MS, Central Michigan University (2018)
BA, Knox College (2014)

I am a global change biologist interested in building quantitative tools to answer pressing questions about how environmental change impacts biodiversity.  My postdoctoral research focuses on quantifying how phenotypic sensitivity to climate change underpins population and community dynamics. As part of this project, I am building computer vision models to assemble body size measurements of individual beetles collected at NEON sites across the United States.