Jena Edwards

Research interests

Understanding the movement ecology of marine fishes using aquatic biotelemetry. 

Functions

Jena is a PhD candidate specializing in the movement ecology of marine fishes and has extensive experience in at-sea field research and analysis of aquatic movement data. At NIOZ, she is currently employing a technical knowledge and hands-on experience in the deployment of satellite and acoustic telemetry technologies to develop a large-scale telemetry study for large fish in the Dutch Wadden Sea. 

Key-Publications

• Thinking deeper: Uncovering the mysteries of animal movement in the deep sea

  J.E. Edwards, J. Pratt, N. Tress, and N.E. Hussey (2019)Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

• Advancing Research for the Management of Long-Lived Species: A Case Study on the Greenland Shark

  Jena E. Edwards, Elizabeth Hiltz, Franziska Broell, Peter G. Bushnell, Steven E. Campana, Jørgen S. Christiansen, Brynn M. Devine, Jeffrey J. Gallant, Kevin J. Hedges, M. Aaron MacNeil, Bailey C. McMeans, Julius Nielsen, Kim Præbel, Gregory B. Skomal, John F. Steffensen, Ryan P. Walter, Yuuki Y. Watanabe, David L. VanderZwaag, and Nigel E. Hussey (2019)Frontiers in Marine Science

You can download my publications on ResearchGate or on Google Scholar

Professional education

BSc with First Class Honours in Marine Biology - 2017
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CA 

MSc in Biological Sciences - 2020
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, CA

Awards and Prizes

• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) CGS - Masters, Canadian federal award (2019-2020)
• The W. Garfield Weston Award in Northern Research - Master's (2019-2020)
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) - Master's (2019-2020, declined)
• Polar Knowledge Canada: Northern Scientific Training Program (NSTP), Canadian federal award (2018, 2019)
• University of Windsor Environmental Scholarship (2019)
• A.R. & E.G. Ferris Award, Univeristy of Windsor (2018)

Conference presentations

Edwards, J.E., Hedges, K.J., Fisk, A.T., and N.E. Hussey. Multi-year movement
behaviour of Greenland sharks (Somnious microcephalus) in a deep-water
Arctic fjord. ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM2019), Halifax, Nova
Scotia. December 2019 (Oral presentation International Conference).

Edwards, J.E., and Hussey, N.E. Seasonal variation in coastal residency and
fine-scale movements of the Greenland Shark (Somniosus microcephalus).
Canadian Society of Zoologists, Windsor, Ontario. May 2019 (Oral presentation
National Conference).

Edwards, J.E., Hiltz, E., Broell, F., Bushnell, P.G., Campana, S.E., Christiansen,
J.S., Devine, B.M., Gallant, J.J., Hedges, K.J., MacNeil, M.A., McMeans, B.C., Nielsen,
J., Præbel, K., Skomal, G.B., Steffensen, J.F., Walter, R.P., Watanabe, Y.Y.,
VanderZwaag, D.L., and Hussey, N.E. Advancing our understanding of longlived
species: A case study on the Greenland shark. 4th Sharks International,
Joao Pessoa, Brazil. June 2018 (Oral presentation International Conference).

Newsletter

SWIMWAY newsletter Nr. 1 july 2021  (only in Dutch)