First Emergence

kvd1 — Wed, 08 May 2019 16:12:40 +0000

Ivana Schoepf

My research focuses on the effects that avian malarial parasites have on female reproductive success and offspring quality. To assess how malarial infection affects mothers and their offspring, I spent the spring and summer in the field at the Queen's University Biological Station catching female, adult red-winged blackbirds and treating them with either an antimalarial medication or a control solution. Female reproductive success was determined by looking at a variety of parameters, including incubation behaviour, which was measured using I-buttons (as seen in the photo). If experimental reduction of infection leads to higher reproductive success in females, I expected to find medicated females to be able to spend more time incubating their eggs. Our preliminary analysis shows that this is indeed the case.

Location of photograph:

Queen's University Biological Station

Prize name:

Winner, Out in the Field

Submission Year:

2018-19

Landscapes of Resistance

stratg — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 20:15:40 +0000

Alexandra Pedersen

As a feminist/activist geographer, much of my doctoral research has concentrated on Indigenous and non-Indigenous communal experiences of violent development in Guatemala. An emblematic case of community conflict with, and resistance to, transnational corporate interests comes from the remote community of Lote Ocho. There, Irma Yolanda Choc Cac (pictured here) is one of eleven Indigenous Q’eqchi’ Maya women pursuing a civil court case against the Canadian mining company HudBay Minerals for sexual assaults allegedly committed during a violent eviction of her community from their ancestral lands in 2007.

Location of photograph:

Lote Ocho, Izabal, Guatemala

Prize name:

Winner, Out in the Field

Submission Year:

2017-18