{"id":356,"date":"2019-10-08T15:15:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T15:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/?page_id=356"},"modified":"2020-02-28T16:21:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T16:21:17","slug":"carly-madge","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/?page_id=356","title":{"rendered":"Alannah Niemeyer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MES Candidate, Dalhousie University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/unnamed.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-405\" width=\"358\" height=\"326\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <br>Alannah is halfway through her Master in Environmental Studies (MES) program as Andrew\u2019s first graduate student at Dalhousie University. Her research is on the influence of landscape inputs on aquatic productivity in Arctic freshwater ecosystems. While many researchers focus on the direct impacts of terrestrial inputs, Alannah is looking at what this means further downstream in surrounding lakes with varying gradients of permafrost. Her cores were collected before she came onto the project, but she was able to gain fieldwork experience in Iqaluit, Nunavut, where she collected biological and water samples to be used for monitoring and possible future projects.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cIt felt like an entirely different place because you think Canada\u2019s such a forested country, but to go above the tree line \u2013 it\u2019s a completely different thing. You feel so far away and you really get a sense of just how big Canada is.\u201d<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leading up to\nDalhousie<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-406\" srcset=\"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1.jpg 1059w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally from Ontario, Alannah completed her B.Sc Hons in Biology at Trent University in 2018. By the end of her degree, she knew she enjoyed studying freshwater ecology and environmental sciences but still wasn\u2019t sure what she wanted to pursue as a career. It was only until she received an email from Andrew, whom she had taken classes with throughout her fourth year, that the choice seemed clear.&nbsp; <br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was on my grad trip in Florida and I get an email from Andrew saying \u201cI\u2019m looking for students for the MES program at York University and you did really well in my classes (I had taken classes with him for a year at Trent University). Would you want to come on as a graduate student?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is perfect,\u201d she thought, \u201cI applied to York and before the semester began, Andrew emailed me asking, \u201cWhat do you think of Halifax?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had to think about it. It was only two years and its Dalhousie. I can\u2019t pass that up, right? I ended up applying in July and got accepted in August. And then I moved out here. It\u2019s crazy!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One year later &#8211; Alannah feels like she made the right choice. She has really enjoyed the opportunities offered in the SRES MES program as well as her research.&nbsp;<br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Future Plans<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nIn the future Alannah is hoping to bring her limnology expertise and experience to her upcoming position as a policy analyst with Natural Resources Canada, \u201cI\u2019m excited that this program has enabled me to apply for positions that would not have been open to me without a masters, and I can\u2019t wait to be in Ottawa applying all I have to influence responsible policy.\u201d\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MES Candidate, Dalhousie University Alannah is halfway through her Master in Environmental Studies (MES) program as Andrew\u2019s first graduate student at Dalhousie University. Her research is on the influence of landscape inputs on aquatic productivity in Arctic freshwater ecosystems. While many researchers focus on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/?page_id=356\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alannah Niemeyer<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewmedeiros.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}