Chalifour is a PhD candidate in the Baum Lab at the University of Victoria and am co-supervised by Tara Martin (University of British Columbia). Her research aims to shed light on nearshore habitat use by fishes of the Fraser River estuary and coastal British Columbia, with a particular focus on the recovery of Pacific salmon.
Chinook salmon from the Harrison River, which was declared Canada’s first Salmon Stronghold, do something unique; rather than growing in their home lake and river system for the first year or more as many other salmon do, these fish go on a great adventure.
I’m sitting in Calgary but my heart is back in the Great Bear Rainforest, where I spent two months working with Raincoast’s bear research project……