Dr. Diana Hamilton

Diana will take up a position as an assistant professor in the Department of Biology, Mount Allison University, in Sackville NB, in 2005. Diana obtained an MSc from the University of Western Ontario in 1992, and PhD from the University of Guelph in 1997. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of New Brunswick, and until November 2003 worked as a Research Associate there. Diana is a community ecologist with a particular interest in relationships between aquatic birds and their prey. She has studied predation by diving ducks on zebra mussels, the role of Common Eiders as predators in intertidal communities, and the relationship between Semipalmated Sandpipers and their prey in the Bay of Fundy. She supervises graduate students studying topics such as movements of Semipalmated Sandpipers in the Bay of Fundy, and interactions between sea ducks and mussel aquaculture in PE.
In addition to research and student supervision, Diana is an active member of the Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership, was on the program planning committee for the 5th Bay of Fundy Science Workshop, and was part of the scientific advisory committee for the 2002 North American Seaduck Conference and Workshop. She organized and chaired a workshop on interactions between sea ducks and aquaculture, has given presentations and provided advice to industry and government on the same issue, and has contributed through invited papers and presentations to the development of management guidelines for rockweed harvest in NB.