The Team

Lyn Brown

Lead Researcher, Ph.D. Student

Lyn is a Virginia native and beach lover at heart committed to preserving Virginia's coastal ecosystems. As a Ph.D. student at Trent University, she is investigating causes for the population decline of American Oystercatchers at Chincoteague, Virginia. Lyn has worked on coastal waterbird research along the Atlantic Coast including loons in Wisconsin, scrub jays in Florida, and beach nesting birds in Virginia and North Carolina. In her spare time, Lyn goes adventuring, kayaking, picnicking, and swimming.

Erica Nol

Project Supervisor

Erica is a full professor at Trent University overseeing this project. Erica conducted foundational research on the species in the 1980s. She has supervised dozens of graduate students on shorebird research around the world with a focus in the Canadian Arctic. For more information on her research check out https://avianconservation.ca/.

Trevor MacLaurin

Honors Thesis Student and Field Technician

Trevor mastered the art of sand shaking and marsh kayaking while helping on the project. For his honors thesis, he is researching nest site selection in relation to vegetation encroachment. Trevor can’t get enough of birds. When Trevor is not working with birds, he is frequently out in the forest prowling for owls and scanning the horizon for rare migrants to maintain his top local ranking status on eBird.

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