Tara Crewe
Volunteer Projects Biologist

Telephone Ext. 211

Growing up, I always had a forest nearby to explore, but it wasn't until I returned to my beautiful ancestral homeland of Newfoundland, at the age of nine, that my love and appreciation for the outdoors really took hold. This, among other things, led me to the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, where I studied Biology and received a B.Sc. in 2000. During that time, I spent two summers working on the mudflats of the Bay of Fundy, counting shorebirds (and their droppings!) every day during low tide. When the last tide came in, I moved on to fish and for eight months I worked as a technician in a winter flounder/sturgeon wetlab at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. After that time, I fledged and flew off to Ear Falls in northwestern Ontario where I spent two summers running through the woods catching frogs for my M.Sc. in Zoology at the University of Guelph. Luckily, this amphibian experience metamorphosed into a job at Bird Studies Canada, where I am now researching amphibians and marsh birds for the Marsh Monitoring Program in Port Rowan, Ontario.