Who are we?
A list of our current lab members and alumni can be found at the bottom of the page.
A sampling of lab members at work, since 2015.
The ABC Lab (June 2024)
Graduate students
- Sylvia Neumann (MSc) (2023–Current)
- Pest predation by beetles
- Tianyi Ren (PhD) (2023–Current)
- Weed seed predators
Undergraduate students
- Yewande Oyelese (BSc project) (2024–Current)
- Crop modelling
Research staff
- Peter Berndtsson (2024–Current)
- Agricultural data science
- Dr. Manoj Kandoth (2023–Current)
- Beetle taxonomy
- Andrea Astleford (2022–Current)
- Sustainable agriculture
Research staff (field)
- Kaylin Husband (2024–Current)
- Agrivoltaics
- Lia Popa (2023–Current)
- Beneficial insects
PIs
Alumni
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Graduate students
- Tobyn Neame (MSc) (2021–2023)
- Pest predation by beetles
- Rowan Rampton (MSc) (2021–2023)
- Alpine pollination
- Danielle Clake (PhD) (2016–2022)
- Bee landscape genomics
- Emily Purvis (MSc) (2019–2021)
- Pollinator restoration
- Richard Kwafo (MSc) (2018–2020)
- Bumble bee conservation
- Angela Rout (PhD) (2015–2020)
- Urban informatics
- Jenn Retzlaff (MSc) (2015–2018)
- Bee functional ecology
- Cat Fauvelle (MSc) (2015–2017)
- Caribou connectivity
Postdoctoral scholars
- Dr. Abigail Cohen (2022–2024)
- Insect machine learning
- Dr. Samuel Robinson (2019–2024)
- Sustainable agriculture
- Dr. Lan Nguyen (2019–2021)
- Agricl. remote sensing
- Dr. Jess Vickruck (2017–2019)
- Beneficial insects
- Dr. Andrew Ladle (2017–2018)
- Urban informatics
- Dr. Patrick Barks (2016–2017)
- Pesticide impacts
Undergraduate students
- K. Brill (BSc project) (2023–2024)
- Parasitoid wasp spillover
- S. McAmmond (Honours BSc) (2023–2024)
- Muskox landscape ecology
- S. Zaplachinski (Honours BSc) (2023–2024)
- Harvestmen spillover
- E. Bickley (BSc project) (2022–2023)
- Beneficial insects
- S. Neumann (Honours BSc) (2022–2023)
- Pest control spillover
- C. Archibald (BSc project) (2021–2022)
- Bumble bee mimicry
- T. Ford-Sahibzada (BSc project) (2021–2022)
- Bumble bee colouration
- R. Innes (Honours BSc) (2021–2022)
- Crop pest spillover
- Z. Yong-Zhao (BSc project) (2021–2022)
- Bees near wetlands
- C. Dizon (BSc project) (2020)
- Agricultural remote sensing
- M. Chmielarski (Honours BSc) (2017–2018)
- Pollinators & crop yield
- L. Storey (BSc project) (2018)
- Pollinators
- C. Hillaby (BSc project) (2016–2017)
- Beneficial insects
- D. Chang (BSc project) (2016)
- Solitary bees
- S. Doctolero (BSc project) (2016)
- Ecological methods (C++)
- T. Thambimuthu (Honours BSc) (2015–2016)
- Bumble bee distribution
Research staff
- L. Best (2015–2024)
- Bee taxonomy
- R. Innes (2022–2023)
- Beneficial insects
- T. McLoughlin (2022)
- Sustainable agriculture
- H. Bloom (2018–2020)
- Beneficial insects
- D. Edwards (2019)
- Spider taxonomy
- H. Kersteins (2019)
- Beneficials lit. review
- M. Gavin (2017–2018)
- Beneficial insects
- I. Maggo (2017–2018)
- Urban walkability
- S. Johnson (2015–2016)
- Beneficial insects
- F. Tan (2015–2016)
- Agricl. remote sensing
- S. Bell (2015)
- Urban walkability
- H. O’Connor (2015)
- Urban walkability
Research staff (field)
- J. Correch (2023)
- Beneficial insects
- F. Kandil (2022)
- Beneficial insects
- E. Pedersen (2021)
- Beneficial insects
- M. Canuel (2018)
- Beneficial insects
- R. Waytes (2018)
- Beneficial insects
- M. Amarbayan (2017)
- Beneficial insects
- A. Krause (2017)
- Beneficial insects
- N. Morden (2017)
- Beneficial insects
- J. Sick (2017)
- Beneficial insects
Sponsorships of interns from other post-secondary institutions
- E. Dunlop (Quest U., BC) (2019)
- Bumblebee identification
- A. Dedours (U. Picardie, France) (2017)
- Beneficial insects
- K. Schulze (SAIT, Calgary) (2017)
- Database management
- S. Coutts (SAIT, Calgary) (2015)
- Database management
Sponsorships of visiting researchers
- Dr. Alex Chubaty (2015–2018)
- Ecological methods
The ABC Lab is a collective project of Dr. Paul Galpern, Dr. Mindi Summers, and their students and trainees at University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Image content created by past or present lab members is credited; other images are licensed or are in the public domain; Lab logo and beetle line drawing by Tobyn Neame; Built with Quarto; Last content update: May 2024