Shannon Seahra is an MSc student in Environmental Biology. She completed her BSc Honours in Biological Sciences at the University of Guelph in 2009. For her undergraduate research thesis, she studied if biophysical factors could predict fish species diversity using Lake Huron as a case study. She pursued her interests in biodiversity and ecosystems by joining Dr. Newman’s lab to research how spatial arrangement and heterogeneity of plant species varies biodiversity and community composition through time.