Eastern pondmussel (Ligumia nasuta) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 14

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Biographical summary of report writers

Janice L. Metcalfe-Smith is an Aquatic Research Biologist with the Water Science and Technology Directorate of Environment Canada in Burlington, Ontario. She has a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Zoology from the University of Manitoba (1973), and 33 years of experience as a technologist (1973-1978) and biologist (1978-present) with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (Winnipeg, Manitoba and St. Andrews, New Brunswick) and Environment Canada (Burlington, Ontario). She has conducted research in several areas, including the effects of forestry practices and acid rain on Atlantic salmon, the use of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in water quality assessment, the development of biological monitoring techniques for measuring contaminant trends in freshwater ecosystems, and aquatic toxicology. Since 1995, her research has focused on the assessment and conservation of freshwater mussels in Ontario. She has authored or co-authored over 80 scientific papers and reports, including 30 on freshwater mussels. She is a member of the North American Benthological Society and the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society, and co-chairs the Molluscs Specialist Subcommittee of COSEWIC. She co-authored ten previous status reports on mussel species at risk for COSEWIC.

Daryl J. McGoldrick is an Aquatic Ecologist with the Water Science and Technology Directorate of Environment Canada in Burlington, Ontario. He has a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Environmental Science from the University of Waterloo (1999) and a M.Sc. (Biology) from the University of Waterloo (2003). Mr. McGoldrick’s M.Sc. thesis was entitled “An Investigation of the Littoral Food Web of Little Rice Bay on Long Point, Lake Erie.” He has worked in the field of aquatic ecology since 1999. In addition to his thesis research, he has been involved in benthic biomonitoring studies and conducted research on planktonic trophic dynamics of Canadian Shield lakes. Since 2002, he has focused on the assessment and conservation of freshwater mussels in Ontario. Daryl is a member of the North American Benthological Society and the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society. He co-authored the status report on the Rainbow (Villosa iris) for COSEWIC.