ALISON DARLING
Field Technician

(902) 742-9739
 

Alison is originally from Sudbury, Ontario, and has completed her BSc Honors in Biology from the University of Ottawa in 2008. She then traveled to various locations in Australia working with professors and a PhD students in Marine Biology. She worked in the Coral Reef Ecology lab at Queensland University in Brisbane helping Dr Alexandra Grutter with various lab and aquarium duties. She then traveled to Heron Island Research Station on the Great Barrier Reef where she worked with Anthony Bellantuono, a PhD student from the University of Louisiana under the supervision of Profesor Mauricio Rodrigez-Lanetty of the Integrative Marine Genomics and Symbiosis laboratory. Here she worked on coral physiology and monitoring the corals in aquarium, laboratory work, DNA extractions and microscopic counts. Her position at the Lobster Science Center is based in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and focuses on both the field monitoring activity and the service unit. She will collect hemolymph, pleopod clippings and general biology of lobsters from various locations in South West Nova Scotia both on fishing vessels and in plants.