Brian Hayden
Associate Professor at the Biology Department, University of New Brunswick
I am an aquatic ecologist with research interests spanning frozen Arctic lakes to tropical streams. My work primarily focuses on community level responses of fish and invertebrates to environmental stressors such as land use intensification, climate change and biological invasions.
I am Science Director of the Stable Isotopes in Nature Laboratory (SINLAB) at UNB. We are the longest running stable isotope facility in Atlantic Canada and currently analyse bulk Carbon, Nitrogen, Hydrogen and Oxygen stable isotopes for clients and collaborators across the globe. If you don't know what stable isotopes are, or why they are useful for your research, watch my introductory course - A Primer in Stable Isotope Ecology
Following a very challenging but life-affirming decision I am sorry to say that the Atomic Ecology lab at UNB will be closing its doors later this year (2025). Following a wonderful 11 year spell in New Brunswick my family and I have decided that the call of home is too strong and we are returning to Ireland this summer. SINLAB is still going strong and will continue in my absence. I will also keep the course pages on this site available for those of you who use them. You can keep abreast of my new adventures at www.atomicecology.com.
Two new papers hitting the interweb this month - work lead by Guy Marley, newly minted PhD from University of the West Indies, details food web structure supporting mudflat and mangrove communities in Caroni National Park, Trinidad - and the culmination of a very exciting project lead by Zacchaeus Compson combining, eDNA, trait databases and stable isotopes to develop new insights into wetland food web structure
This map lists some of my current and past research sites.
Click on the markers for a (very) brief description of each project.