Research

Current projects

Can MSX infections in eastern oysters be predicted from eDNA of its causative agent, Haplosporidium nelsoni, in the water and/or from oyster behaviour?
Advisor with D. Ditlecadet, L. Comeau, J-R Arseneau, N Gagné, J. Davidson, A. Ramsay, M. Mallet, A. Nadeau
Funding:
Fisheries and Oceans Canada CSRF (2025-2028)

Testing the use of siphon hole morphometrics as an efficient, non-invasive tool for population assessments of infaunal clams
Lead-PI with B. Gianasi, S. Dudas, R. Angus, T. Bernard
Funding:
Fisheries and Oceans Canada CSRF (2024-2027)

Determining the fate of discarded sub-legal clams, and deriving size-fecundity relationships, for soft shell clams (Mya arenaria) in the Gulf Region
Lead-PI with B. MacLeod, R. Sonier, S. Harrison, M. Roussel, A. Nadeau
Funding:
Fisheries and Oceans Canada FSCP (2024-2027)

Spatial variation in the reproductive ecology of soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria) in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence
Lead-PI with R. Sonier, H. Hunt
Funding:
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (2023-2025)

Exploring the efficacy of concrete blocks as artificial substrate for habitat restoration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
Lead-PI with R. Sonier
Funding:
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (2020-2025)

 

Past projects

Overwintering in juvenile oysters: understanding the role of energetic physiology for Crassostrea virginica seed
Lead-PI with L. Comeau, C. Carver, R. Tremblay, M. Mallet, A. Mallet
Funding:
Fisheries and Oceans Canada ACRDP (2021-2024)

Cultivated oysters as sentinels of water quality: an autonomous alert system
Co-PI with L. Comeau, J. Babarro, R. Filgueira, R. Haché, M. Coffin, L. Poirier
Funding:
Fisheries and Oceans Canada ACRDP (2021-2024)

Desilting wild Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) beds: effects on recruitment
Co-PI with L. Poirier, R. Sonier, J. Davidson, M. Coffin, J. Gunn-McQuillan, L. Comeau
Funding:
Fisheries and Oceans Canada FSCP (2020-2023)

Effects of current fishing practices on survival, behaviour, reproductive contribution and population dynamics of soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria) in Atlantic Canada
Co-PI with R. Sonier, G. Miron, D. Gallant, P. St-Onge
Funding:
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (2020-2022)

Effects of global change on marine invertebrates
Lead PI with F. Jutfelt, S. Dupont
Funding:
Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (2018-2020) 
University of Gothenburg KVA (2019)
European Marine Biological Resource Centre ASSEMBLE+ (2019)

Interactions between oyster farming and the productivity of wild oyster beds
Co-PI with L. Comeau, J. Davidson, J. Davidson, M. Ouelette
Funding:
Fisheries and Oceans Canada ASEC Grant (2017-2018)

Oyster aquaculture in an acidifying ocean: Effects of ocean acidification on Eastern Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) and the mitigation potential of seagrass (Zostera marina)
Lead PI with L. Comeau, C. Carver, E. Mayrand, S. Plante, A. Mallet
Funding:
Fisheries and Oceans Canada ACRDP (2017-2020)

Ocean acidification effects on adult eastern oyster behaviour in the context of coastal variability
Lead PI with L. Comeau, C. Carver, E. Mayrand, S. Plante, A. Mallet
Funding:
Fisheries and Oceans Canada ACCASP Grant (2016)