“How do you become a conservation biologist?”
Many students are passionate about environmental protection – but do they know what jobs are available in this field? I featured in an article about fueling students’ environmental passion.
Coral restoration in action
YouTube video made by French/Spanish vloggers who crossed our path in the summer 2019 when Wide Open Projects was performing coral restorations on Arborek island.
B.C. researchers discover parasitic wasps that hypnotize and feast on spiders
CBC article about our study on the behavioral manipulation of a social spider by a parasitoid wasp.
“Those first notes led to the discovery of a new species of wasp that transforms the sociable spiders into lifeless drones that abandon their own colonies to obey the wasp instead.”
Parasitic Wasp Larvae Force Young Social Spiders into Deadly Hermitage
Our discovery of a parasitoid wasp featured in Scientific American.
“Talk about a raw deal: deadly parasitic wasps ruin the lives of adolescent spiders by taking over their minds, forcing them to become hermits and then eating them alive.”
BRITE internship report
Philippe Fernandez, a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, talks about his internship with Operation Wallacea in the summer of 2016. During this internship, he managed an isolated research station On Buton island, Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Post-MSc travels
A video of my wife and I travelling through the Philippines, Malaysian Borneo, Nepal and India in 2016. This was a sort of reward after successfully completing my MSc at UBC.
