Over the past many years, Gavia has worked on projects that span conservation, climate change, physiology, macroecology, and evolution in both marine, terrestrial, and freshwater systems.
She has worked extensively in the field and has experience leading mark-recapture surveys, conducting tadpole counts, egg mass surveys, and collecting water loss and temperature data from agar frog models. She has also conducted intertidal invertebrate and seaweed surveys off the coast of Vancouver Island. She has many years of experience working in R with glms, glmms, and analyses in a phylogenetic comparative framework.
In the last several years, she has presented her work at conferences in New Orleans (the Joint Meeting of Ichthyology and Herpetology), in Toronto (the North American Congress for Conservation Biology) and in British Columbia (SFU Eco-Evo retreat).
Publications:
Gavia Lertzman‐Lepofsky, Amanda Kissel, Barry Sinervo, and Wendy Palen. 2020. Water loss and temperature interact to compound amphibian vulnerability to climate change. Global Change Biology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.15231
Gavia Lertzman-Lepofsky, Dan A. Greenberg, and Arne Ø. Mooers. 2019. Ecological constraints associated with genome size across salamander lineages. Proc. R. Soc. B-Biological Sci. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.1780
Ginevra Toniello, Dana Lepofsky, Gavia Lertzman-Lepofsky, Anne Solomon, and Kirsten Rowell. 2019. 11,500 y of human–clam relationships provide long-term context for intertidal management in the Salish Sea, British Columbia. PNAS. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/10/09/1905921116
Selected Awards and Scholarships:
2020: Queen Elizabeth II/Dr. F. M. Hill Scholarship in Science and Technology at the University of Toronto
2019: Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Entrance Award at University of Toronto, Junior Fellow at Massey College
2017: Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Award, Undergraduate Open Scholarship
2016: NSERC undergraduate research award (USRA), Undergraduate Open Scholarship
2015: Shaughn & Sharon Clements Biological Sciences Field Trip Grant to attend Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre
2012: Gordon M. Shrum Entrance Scholarship