Amber Fedus

Ph.D. Candidate @trentuniversity in the Integrative Fish Ecology Lab | MSc LU | she/her

[Amber Fedus @amberlfedus]

@SandraKlemet Congratulations Sandra!

[Amber Fedus @amberlfedus]

A sneak peek into the tagging process for my PhD project using this recent, record-sized muskie!

For this fish, I used a V16AT accelerometer tag which features a temperature sensor from @Innovasea 🐟💨🌡️

Thanks to @BowmanJacob_ for capturing this time-lapse!

[Graham Raby @graham_raby]

Make sure to recruit grad students like @ErinRitchiee who, after graduating and moving away, bring beer when they come to visit. 😍

[Graham Raby @graham_raby]

Merry Christmas from your friendly neighbourhood fish biology lab.

(Collage of the 2023 team by @ErinRitchiee)

[Erin Ritchie @ErinRitchiee]

Super proud to be the first ever Raby Lab student to defend!! 🎓📝

Thankful to have had such amazing supervisors these past 2 years. #MSc

[Graham Raby @graham_raby]

Two years ago, @ErinRitchiee rocked up to Trent to start her MSc with @sci_angler and me. Yesterday, Erin defended her MSc. Extensive experiments calibrating accelerometer tag output against swimming speed and oxygen consumption across temps in walleye. Congrats Erin!

[Amber Fedus @amberlfedus]

@not_Klaatu @RyanCGrow Congratulations Ryan!!

[Graham Raby @graham_raby]

Thanks @TriciaMason_ for having @amberlfedus and me on!

[Graham Raby @graham_raby]

Our 1st (hopefully annual) lab writing(+reading/analysis) retreat on Lake Kushog going well this week. As you can here, we are fun and happy people. Sadly missing out this week are @ErinRitchiee and @HeatherBReid.

[Graham Raby @graham_raby]

Lab BBQ 2023, feat. @sci_angler and a few of his crew members.

[Emily Lechner MSc @EmilyRLechner]

This week (during the local heatwave), I assisted @amberlfedus in tagging walley, perch, smallmouth bass and black crappie with @Innovasea tags for acceleration and movement tracking. Below are images/clips of incision sutures, set up and fin clippings for stable isotope sampling

[Emily Lechner MSc @EmilyRLechner]

First time electrofishing via boat, done with @FishOceansCAN on Stoney Lake 🐟

Catching target species to tag with @Innovasea to collect data on acceleration and movement for @amberlfedus’s PhD project ! Thank you for the opportunity 🎣

@graham_raby @Kurt_Smith08 @sci_angler

[Graham Raby @graham_raby]

PhD student @HeatherBReid putting an @Innovasea V7 transmitter into a black crappie for @amberlfedus's fish tracking project on Stoney Lake with help from UG students @BowmanJacob_ and Sam Chasse. Tags purchased with generous donations from lake residents.

[Graham Raby @graham_raby]

Humbling and exciting to see all this scribbled onto a whiteboard by @erinmcstewart at our lab meeting today, mapping out what's going to be a crazy few months of data collection for our team, with the help of many collaborators. A few details to iron out but we're getting there.

[Erin Ritchie @ErinRitchiee]

Great talk to start the day by my lab mate @ChrisOnFish providing an update on our @LampreyControl funded projects at the @GLATOS_Fish Coordination Meeting! Can’t think of a better speaker to represent #RabyLab across borders 🐟📊🗯️ #GLATOS @TrentUResearch

[Amber Fedus @amberlfedus]

I enjoyed presenting some of my MSc work about the effects of macrophyte cutting on fish populations @scas_scsa yesterday! Thank you to everyone who stuck around to listen. #SCAS_SCSA2023

[Graham Raby @graham_raby]

Just completed the 5h drive home from Montreal and the first @scas_scsa meeting. Obligatory lab photo with my wonderful students who did such a great job representing @TrentUniversity and themselves. Thanks again to all the folks who put the meeting together.

[Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences @cjfas]

Thanks to all the @TrentUniversity students for stopping by the @cdnsciencepub booth—including new @scas_scsa student rep @erinmcstewart! Learn more about all their research on thermal tolerance and fish movement at https://t.co/JHILTsPXBL

[Emily Lechner MSc @EmilyRLechner]

Interested in walleye bio-loggers, or brook trout embryo survival & thermal tolerance ? Are you concerned with how the loss of vegetation is impacting fish species, or maybe interested in how O2 supersaturation impacts thermal tolerance ? Check out some amazing talks @scas_scsa