WELCOME TO OUR LAB

Here's a relevant quote on global climate change-contaminant linkages to give you an idea of what we do:


"Physical and chemical changes are easier to model and understand, but changes associated with ecosystems have greater potential to alter persistent organic pollutant pathways and exposures".  


– Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, 2002. 

Here's a link to a talk at The Wildlife Society (TWS 2015) by Melissa on Alaskan polar bears to show you the types of projects we're working on. 

NEWS FROM THE LAB

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Summer 2023
  • Prof. McKinney got tenured!!! Congrats Melissa, well done!
  • Msc Student Haley Land-Miller submitted her thesis, and graduated, we will miss you, Haley!
  • Anaïs Remili is going to conduct fieldwork with our collaborators from the Icelandic Orca Project in Iceland.

Winter 2023

Fall 2022
Summer 2022
  • Anaïs Remili is going to conduct fieldwork with our collaborators from the Icelandic Orca Project in Iceland.
  • The lab welcomes Ambar Maldonado and Vicky Belley, both working on their undergrad projects.
  • Megan Franz left the lab to go pursue new adventures on the west coast. We will miss you, Megan!

Winter 2022
Fall 2021 
  • Welcome new undergraduate student, Ambar Maldonado Rodriguez!

Summer 2021
Spring 2021
Fall 2020
  • Welcome new graduate students, Haley Land-Miller and Kailee Hopkins!
  • Welcome new undergraduate student, Rose Lacombe!

Winter 2020
  • Welcome new graduate students, Adam Petersen and Nadia Facciola!

Fall 2019
  • McKinney Lab is headed to Toronto, Ontario, to participate in the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Conference 

Summer 2019
  • Welcome new Master's student, Megan Franz!
  • Welcome new undergraduate student, Elena McCulloch!​
  • PhD student, Anaïs Remili, has received a SETAC Student Travel Exchange Opportunity award
  • Anaïs' presentation at Mon Projet Nordique, organized jointly by FRQNT and INQ, has been selected to represent Québec at the international final during the Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavík in October!
  • Melissa has been awarded a Canada Research Chair Tier II in Ecological Change and Environmental Stressors

Winter 2019
Fall 2018
Spring 2018
  • MS student, Jen Bourque, is off to the field with USGS Polar Bear Biologists in Northern Alaska!
  • PhD student, Sara Pedro, participated in the Sentinel North International Arctic Field School in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada!

October 2017
June 2017
May 2017 ​
April 2017
  • McKinney Lab is awarded Institute of Biological Risk Grant to investigate "Biological risks posed by the poleward redistribution of the oceans’ top predator: Insight from killer whale feeding in Greenland" 
  • ​McKinney Lab is headed to Reston, VA, to participate in the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment (AMAP) International Conference on Arctic Science: Bringing Knowledge to Action from April 24-27
  • Melissa is giving keynote address at the Connecticut Association of Biology Teachers "Climate Change and Biology Education" Conference on April 29
  • Congratulations to Jen Bourque for being selected to participate in the first field-school of the International partnerships for excellent education and research (INTPART) project “Arctic Field Summer Schools: Norway-Canada- USA collaboration” from 16-31 May, 2017!

March 2017
  • McKinney Lab, in collaboration with Kristin Laidre at University of Washington, is awarded Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering Mini-Grant to study "The influence of flexible foraging strategies on hair mercury concentrations in Baffin Bay polar bears"

January 2017
Last updated: December 2022
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