Lydia White

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Lydia White is a PhD student at the University of New Brunswick, in Canada. She holds a Master’s and undergraduate degree in marine biology, also from UNB. Lydia’s primary research focuses on enhancing our understanding of the mechanisms underlying observed trends in American lobster fisheries recruitment in Canada, with the ultimate goal of improving our ability to forecast fisheries recruitment in the future. Her work in the summer of 2016 as a lobster technician with a fisher’s association in Cape Breton began her interest in collaborative research between academia, industry, and government, which she continues to integrate into all her research projects. She has been involved in a diversity of projects across the lobster fishery ecology discipline including, but not limited to, hatch prediction of lobster embryos, the quantification and monitoring of larval lobster, the assessment of lobster benthic recruitment densities, and the at-sea-tagging of sublegal lobsters for estimating growth increments.

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