Emma Schubert
@emmaschubert.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at McGill University, Montreal studying the ecological impacts of goldfish invasions 🐟
So excited to pass the Presidential torch to @emmaschubert.bsky.social !! @afsquebec.bsky.social is in good hands! 🐟💙
Quebec Subunit American Fisheries Society@afsquebec.bsky.social · 2w ago🎉 Congratulations to Our Newly Elected Executive Team! We look forward to an amazing year ahead! 🎊 ✨President: Emma Schubert ✨ Vice President: Brielle Comartin ✨ Undergraduate Rep: Hana Kaloudis ✨ Social Media Rep: Madeleine Picard ✨ Co-Treasurer: Annabelle Vogl ✨ Secretary: Snigdhodeb Dutta
@tjcolvin.bsky.social and I hosted the 2nd annual @afsquebec.bsky.social #iNaturalist BioBlitz this past weekend documenting underreported aquatic #biodiversity in the St Lawrence & Ottawa rivers. Thanks to support from #BlitzTheGap @biomcgill.bsky.social ! 🐌🐟
Meet the amazing candidates running for AFS:Québec executive positions! 🎉 Learn more about their backgrounds, experiences, and passion for fisheries and aquatic sciences as we prepare for the upcoming elections. 🐟🌊 Election: July 22 2026
Découvrez les personnes extraordinaires qui se présentent aux postes du comité exécutif de l’AFSébec! Apprenez-en davantage sur leur parcours, leurs expériences et leur passion pour les sciences aquatiques alors que nous nous préparons pour les prochaines élections. 🐟 Élections: 22 juillet 2026
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Urban landscape heterogeneity can modulate the invasive potential of non-native species - Urban Ecosystems
Cities are hotspots for biological invasions, but the mechanisms facilitating invasive species in urban areas remain unclear. Urbanization can lead to changes to characteristics (i.e. traits) that mod...
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Are Climate Change and Introduced Fish Altering Demography and Reproductive Phenology of the Italian Smooth Newt? - Wetlands
Amphibians are a highly threatened vertebrate group, facing a global decline driven by habitat degradation, increasing droughts, and climate change. Long-term monitoring studies are essential for asse...
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The Ricciardians gather for our lab Christmas party. (Photo taken by @ecoinvasions.bsky.social) Note the secret hand sign. @tjcolvin.bsky.social @vanmierlo.bsky.social @ivanakomendic.bsky.social @emmaschubert.bsky.social @picard-m.bsky.social @briellecomartin.bsky.social @veronicagroves.bsky.social
We had a great time at the McGill BGSA Retreat at Gault Nature Reserve this past weekend! 🌲❄️ @picard-m.bsky.social @vanmierlo.bsky.social @biomcgill.bsky.social
So sad to see. Unfortunately there’s no way to share Instagram posts to blue sky so heres a link: www.instagram.com/reel/DQO04KS...
A beautiful fall day at the Gault Open Doors event 2025 talking to the community about aquatic invasive species 🐟🌱 @picard-m.bsky.social #goldfish #invasivespecies #aquaticecology #tubenosegoby #roundgoby #gaultnaturereserve
Thanks to Corinne Lapierre for interviewing me for your article! Read the link below if you want to learn more about my research at Gault Nature Reserve: 🐟 gault.mcgill.ca/en/news/deta... #invasivespecies #research #goldfish #GaultNatureReserve #PhDCandidate #ecology
From Pet to Pest: Goldfish’s Impact on Freshwater Ecosystems - Gault Nature Reserve
Discover the project of Emma Schubert, PhD student at McGill and recipient of a Gault Research Award.
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Thanks to Alex Tran at Gault Nature Reserve for the awesome photos of myself and research assistant Édouard Paquette weighing and measuring our goldfish at the end of this summer’s experiment! #freshwaterecology #invasivespecies #PhD #research #goldfish
Blessed to find this beautiful electric blue Faxonius virilis while sampling the St. Lawrence for my doctoral work! This is a fairly rare phenotype for this native North American species!
I use spectrophotometry to measure chlorophyll-a on tiles at the bottom of my goldfish mesocosms. The chlorophyll-a concentrations are used as a proxies for algal growth to better understand how goldfish invasions impact benthic algae. #freshwaterbiology #invasivespecies #goldfish #algae
You might recognize this familiar face - @emmaschubert.bsky.social, a current ExComm is running for secretary Tu reconnaîtras peut-être ce visage familier – @emmaschubert.bsky.social, une membre actuelle du comité exécutif, se présente au poste de secrétaire
Goldfish generate turbidity (cloudiness) by suspending sediment when they feed. This decreases sunlight penetration in the water and negatively impacts native macrophytes and visual predators. I use a turbidimeter to accurately determine the turbidity in my mesocosms from water samples.
I use this fluoroprobe to measure the concentrations of green algae, bluegreen algae, diatoms, and cryptophyta in each of my mescosms to see how goldfish impact the algal composition of a shallow pond ecosystem.
Each mesocosm in my goldfish experiment contains 0-6 goldfish. Notice the turbidity difference between a mesocosm with 6 fish and one with 0 fish below!
This is my experimental setup at Gault Nature Reserve in Mont-Sainte-Hilaire, QC. Each goldfish is measured before being added to one of the 36 experimental mesocosms. We record different parameters to measure the impacts of goldfish on these artificial ponds, including turbidity and algae growth.
This is Burbank Pond in Danville, QC, where we collected 106 goldfish for this summer's artificial pond experiment on goldfish impacts. Burbank Pond currently has a large invasive goldfish population 🐟
Join us Saturday, July 19, 2025, for a day of biodiversity fun on Île Perrot to #BlitzTheGap with iNaturalist! 🌿🐟 We’ll be targeting understudied aquatic species—plus there’ll be prizes, food, and great company. We hope to see you there!
🌊 Want to join the AFS team? 🌊 We're diving into a new year and looking for fresh faces to join our exec team! 🐠 Open positions: McGill: 🧑💼 President 👥 Vice President 💰 Co-Treasurers 📝 Secretary Concordia: 🏫 Concordia Rep Apply using this link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Just read this really interesting recent study comparing the foraging ability of invasive common carp and goldfish (my current study species)! It shows increased foraging ability of common carp over goldfish at 18°C, but not at 26°C under climate change. neobiota.pensoft.net/articles.php...
Follow our students for posts about invasive freshwater fish, crayfish & mussels: (clockwise in photo below) Victoria @vanmierlo.bsky.social Kate @katest0rey.bsky.social Brielle @briellecomartin.bsky.social Emma @emmaschubert.bsky.social Ty @tjcolvin.bsky.social Ivana @ivanakomendic.bsky.social
