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Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2025
Department of Biological Sciences
February 11 is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! According to the United Nations website, in 2015, the "UN General Assembly adopted a resolution to establish an annual International Day to recognize the critical role women and girls play in science and technology communities."
The Biological Sciences Outreach and Engagement Committee is celebrating the day by showcasing the work of women practicing science in our department. Below is a sampling. It's clear we have (and have had) many gifted women in the department - alumni, undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty members, and staff - performing ground-breaking science, and doing a fabulous job of documenting their work! Thanks to all who sent in their photos.
Kudos to the women in our department!!
For more information about International Day of Women and Girls in Science, visit:
https://www.un.org/en/observances/women-and-girls-in-science-day
These are photos from an outreach event where I am teaching members of a garden club about the pollinators in their yards. Submission by Elizabeth Elle.
Sandra Jaskowiak is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Biological Sciences at SFU and works in Dr. Tanya Brown's marine mammal ecotoxicology lab. Her research explores the temporal changes in mercury contamination and feeding ecology of ringed seals in Lake Melville, Labrador. In addition to her research, Sandra is a certified CAUS scientific diver and has recently contributed to dive-based projects with Dr. Isabelle Côté's lab.
Road mortality is the number one cause of death for Badgers in BC, but they sometimes use culverts to pass underneath roads. My research aims to identify habitat/culvert determinants that might make a Badger more or less likely to use a culvert, in the hopes to inform future badger-vehicle collision prevention strategies. Submission by ISS student Jadzia Porter in Little Lab.
ISS student Anya Gould collecting flies, mentoring students, and field-testing surrogate hosts as part of her research in the Gries Lab. Anya's honours thesis investigates the foraging responses of blood-feeding stable flies to different host cues.
Brittany Milner is a PhD candidate. She is holding a Chinook salmon on the Tulsequah River in the Taku watershed.
Kei Poon (left) is our Field Coordinator with PhD candidate Julie Charbonneau in the Nicola River checking temperature loggers.
Emma Griggs (Master's student) is helping identify and measure juvenile salmon for our Estuary Resilience project on Vancouver Island.
Kei Poon (left) is our Field Coordinator with PhD candidate Phoebe Gross who leads the Estuary Resilience study on Vancouver Island.