Position: Research Coordinator

Hometown: Waterloo, Ontario

Contact information: klippert@wlu.ca, SR-217, x2413/3372

Photo: Kelly Lippert on the Grand River

Education: 

• BSc (Wilfrid Laurier University)
  
• MSc (Laurentian University)
  
• BEd (University of Western Ontario)

Grants and Awards:

• NSERC PGS D3 (April 2006)
• NSERC Research Capacity Grant (Feb 2006)
• Graduate Student Association Travel Award (Jan 2005 and Jan 2006)
• Clemens-Rigler Award (Dec 2004 and 2005)
• NSERC CGS M (Sept 2005 – Aug 2006)
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (May 2005)
• NSERC Research Capacity Grant (Feb 2005)
• Graduate Studies Travel Award (Jan 2005)
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship TEMBEC (Oct 2004)
• Laurentian Alumni Scholarship (Oct 2004)
• WLU Biology Silver Medal (May 2004)
• Dean’s Honour Roll (2001 –2004)
• Dr. Kaye Hayashda Biology Award (Jan 2004)
• McLean Family Scholarship (Jan 2004)
• Footer of the Month Award (Sep 2003)
• Laurier In-course Scholarship (Sep 2003)
• NSERC Summer Fellowship (May 2003)
• Laurier Entrance Scholarship (Sep 2000)

Job history:

For the last 2 years I have been Dr. MacLatchy’s Research Coordinator.  I assist with her research in the field of reproductive endocrinology using estuary mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus) as our model species.

Before coming back to Laurier, I worked as a research technician at the Canadian Rivers Institute at the University of New Bruswick for Dr. Kelly Munkittrick.  I collected data for blacknose dace (Rhinichthys atratulus) growth and reproductive patterns to assess their applicability to Environmental Effects Monitoring fish surveys.  I also collected both temperature and fish data for an ongoing project to detect potential effects of temperature on slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus) condition in the New Brunswick area.

Title of project:  Contaminant effects on endocrine (hormone) systems in mummichog

Supervisor(s)/Lab: Dr. Deborah MacLatchy

Start date: August 2007

Publications:
Referred Publications
Lippert, Kelly A., Gunn, J., and Morgan, G.E.  Effects of colonizing predators on yellow perch (Perca flavescens) populations in lakes recovering from acidification and metal stress.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64(10): 1413-1428

Non Referred Publications
Lippert, Kelly.  Yellow perch (Perca flavescens) phenotypic plasticity: repid changes following the arrival of a predator.  MSc. Thesis at Laurentian University, Sudbury, pp. 66.

Lippert, Kelly.  A comparison of the communities within riffle and pool areas of four tributary streams for the Grand River, Ontario.  BSc. Thesis at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, pp. 85

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