Kathryn Roy

Kathryn Roy

Summer Student

As a recent graduate from the University of Guelph with a Bachelor of Science in Marine and Freshwater Biology, I have displayed an interest in aquatic life from a tender age. While participating in the Arctic Ecology course through the U of G, I encountered Gary, Bridgette and Dan in Churchill, Manitoba during PROBE 2006. I was asked to spend the summer of 2007 with the Saunders lab traveling Canada and collecting seaweed from coast to coast. 

My summer has involved SCUBA diving and mucking around the intertidal of Vancouver Island and Prince Rupert, BC, Churchill, MB, Prince Edward Island and Kouchibouguac National Park, here, in New Brunswick.  Although most of my summer has been spent in the field I have also been conducting work in the lab grinding, extracting and sequencing red seaweed samples from the Bay of Fundy as well as helping Bridgette with the processing of some of her samples.

Working in the Saunders lab has been an amazing experience both educationally and practically and I have thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it.