Project: A Long Term Perspective on High Trophic Level Prey Consumption by Atlantic Walrus

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Bio

Hazel is a second year Master’s student at TEAL conducting stable isotope analysis to examine higher trophic level prey consumption in Atlantic walrus, and how this behaviour might be affected by changes in climate. She has a storied history at TEAL, having studied Alaskan pinniped paleoecology in the lab as an undergraduate student in Conservation Biology (B.Sc.) and developed a method for incrementally-sampling pilot whale teeth during a summer NSERC USRA. Her deep interest in ecology stems partially from her experience with and love for animals.
Hazel spends a lot of time around animals at her family’s hobby farm, which contains a small zoo’s worth of species: emus, cows, sheep, horses, four dogs, and a 26-year-old donkey named Snowflake! Hazel has been a friend to horses throughout her life, and has a 7-year-old quarter horse named Wrangler. She is a skilled rider and formerly barrel-raced competitively from 2019 to 2022. Her work experience is also animal-oriented, as she assisted in vet clinics (including one specific to cattle).
Hazel is the lab’s resident bedazzler and loves anything that shines and sparkles. She has given a few of the lab’s nooks bespoke stickered and shiny decor as well as converting our Iron Throne (honouring those that have published first-authored papers) into a broad range of colours representing our various EA chemicals (orange for V2O5, green for WO3, black for CoO, and so on). Her love for bedazzling is also evident in her nails, which she does herself in fun colours (or even color-changing with temperature). As a collector of shiny objects, she loves crystals, her favourite being ametrine, a type of quartz with sunset-esque purple and orange colouration. Bio by Caroline Meyer.

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TEAL Awards and Honours

🥉 2023 Lab Olympics Bronze Medal: Bone Cutting

🏆 2024 Best CN Analytical Session (shared with Moses Akogun)

🏆 2024 Best CN Sample Replciate (shared with 2024/25 Grad Class)

🏆 2024 Lowest δ13C Value (shared with 2024/25 Grad Class)

🥇 2025 Lab Olympics Gold Medal: Microbalance Speed

🥇 2025 Lab Olympics Gold Medal: Pipette Transfer