My name is Rachael Derbyshire and I am a Postdoctoral Scholar. Currently, I am investigating the behavioural ecology of boreal caribou populations in Northern Ontario as part of the Caribou Conservation Stewardship Program, in partnership with the Ontario government and the University of Guelph.
Education
PhD, Environmental and Life Sciences 2018-2023
Department of Biology, Trent University
• Thesis: Spatio-temporal determinants of behavioural dynamics in a northern predator
Post-Graduate Diploma in Endangered Species Recovery 2017
Durrell Conservation Training Ltd., validated by University of Kent
• Independent research project: Habitat selection of a Critically Endangered reptile Gongylomorphis bojerii in Mauritius
MSc, Ecology 2012-2014
Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph
• Thesis: Examining the hoard-rot hypothesis in a boreal songbird: an experimental test of the food limitation assumption
BSc, Wildlife Biology 2008-2012
Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph
• Thesis: Experimental evidence that Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexxipus) are not true navigators
Department of Biology, Trent University
• Thesis: Spatio-temporal determinants of behavioural dynamics in a northern predator
Post-Graduate Diploma in Endangered Species Recovery 2017
Durrell Conservation Training Ltd., validated by University of Kent
• Independent research project: Habitat selection of a Critically Endangered reptile Gongylomorphis bojerii in Mauritius
MSc, Ecology 2012-2014
Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph
• Thesis: Examining the hoard-rot hypothesis in a boreal songbird: an experimental test of the food limitation assumption
BSc, Wildlife Biology 2008-2012
Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph
• Thesis: Experimental evidence that Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexxipus) are not true navigators