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ABOUT ME

I am a Research Associate at the Canadian Rivers Institute, at the University of New Brunswick. I work on fish passage projects on the St John River, within the Mactaquac Aquatic Ecosystem Study (MAES)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Individual variation in spatial ecology and diet

  • why do individual fish differ in their dietary habits?

  • why do individual fish have such different movement patterns?

  • why does this variation matter?

Diel migrations

  • why do fish use shallow water at night?

  • why do fish use deep water during the day?

Partial migrations

  • why do only some fish migrate?

  • why do some stay behind?

Fish passage and entrainment at hydropower dams

  • what happens to fish when then swim near dams?

  • how can we help fish move past dams?

Philip M Harrison

I am a fish ecologist interested in a mix of basic and applied science and all things quantitative and fishy.

 

Key research areas:

  • Inter-individual variation in movement and feeding patterns of fish and the ecological consequences of this variation

  • Understanding diel migrations

  • Interactions between fish and hydropower

 

Favorite Research Tools:

  • Acoustic Telemetry

  • Stable Isotopes

 

Favorite Species: Burbot, Lota lota

EDUCATION

2010-2015

University of Waterloo, Canada

PhD Biology- Supervised by Micheal Power

2008-2009

Hull International Fisheries Institute, Unversity of Hull

MSc Fisheries Science Supervised by Ian Cowx

1999-2003

Sparsholt College Hampshire

BSc Fisheries Management and Aquaculture

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