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Hi! I'm Kim.

I'm what they call a fish ecophysiologist - I study fish ecology and physiology within an applied context. I am generally interested in the when and why fish are vulnerable. Temperature? Catch-and-release? Exhaustive anaerobic exercise? Critical habitats? All of the above!? I'm interested in figuring out the limits that fish can withstand and the mechanisms that set these limits, and the habitats they depend on. 

 

I like to do my work mostly out in the wild, so you'll generally find me putting fish in tupperware containers (running respirometry) or on a boat tagging. 

Kim Birnie-Gauvin
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About me

About me

2024 - Present

Tenure-track researcher

Technical University

of Denmark, Denmark

2021 - 2023

Villum international post-doctoral fellow

University of California Santa Barbara, USA

Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Canada

2016 - 2019

PhD in Fish Ecology

Technical University

of Denmark, Denmark

2011 - 2015

Bachelors in Biology with specialization in Animal Physiology

University of Ottawa, Canada

2023 - 2024

Post-doctoral fellow

Technical University

of Denmark, Denmark

2020 - 2021

Post-doctoral fellow

Technical University

of Denmark, Denmark

2015 - 2016

Masters in Fish Biology

Carleton University, Canada

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Publications

4

PhD students

3

Masters students

1

Bachelor student

Research themes

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Physiology

Experiments, respirometry, thermal physiology, hypoxia, recovery, swimming

Spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias)

Telemetry

Migration routes, behaviour, survival, habitat use,

European Tracking Network

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Conservation

Climate change, freshwater appreciation, protected

areas, management

Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus)

Overlooked

Species

Giving some underappreciated species some attention to better manage them

Kim Birnie-Gauvin

Scientific Communication

Outreach, collaborations, graphic designs, social media, public engagement

Themes

Contact

Contact

@kbg_conserv

@fishybiologistkim

@fishybiologistkim.bsky.social

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