PhD candidate Dave Yurkowski's research finds climate change to impact Arctic ringed seals' behaviour patterns.
UWindsor PhD candidate research provides evidence on how climate change impacts ringed seal behavior
A graduate student trying to determine how climate change is affecting Arctic animals like ringed seals who rely on very specific food resources, has become the first University of Windsor student ever to receive a scholarship of its kind in order to continue his research in the north.
Dave Yurkowski learned a great deal about Arctic ecology during his two week journey to the Canadian north this summer to study how climate change affects the behaviour of ringed seals. He also learned a lot about what’s commonly referred to as one of life’s most important virtues.
“You do have to be really patient,” the master’s student said of the time he had spend waiting for a seal to be caught in the nets he helped set. “You can be sitting there for hours. But that’s just part of field work. Once the seal gets caught in the net – that’s when the action starts.”
