{"id":14740,"date":"2024-02-07T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T15:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=14740"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:42","slug":"adjunct-jennifer-provencher-and-msc-grad-yasmeen-zahaby-study-seabirds-and-oil-spills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2024\/adjunct-jennifer-provencher-and-msc-grad-yasmeen-zahaby-study-seabirds-and-oil-spills\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjunct Jennifer Provencher and MSc Grad Yasmeen Zahaby study Seabirds and Oil Spills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Adjunct Jennifer Provencher and MSc Grad Yasmeen Zahaby study Seabirds and Oil Spills\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>MSc Graduate, Yasmeen Zahaby, studied in the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/steven-j-cooke\/\">Cooke Lab<\/a> and graduated in 2023. She and co-supervisor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/jennifer-provencher\/\">Jennifer Provencher<\/a> are featured in this article: <a href=\"https:\/\/challenge.carleton.ca\/seabirds-oil-spills-dna-health-impacts\/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=homepage&amp;utm_campaign=challenge&amp;utm_content=banner\">Seabirds and Oil Spills: Using DNA to Track Health Impacts<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using genetic code to monitor the impacts of oil spills on surviving seabirds, former master\u2019s student Yasmeen Zahaby developed a tool called a ToxChip which measures the health impacts of seabirds at a DNA level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Findings from her research were then shared with government officials, who held public meetings with community members to share the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/seabirds-and-oil-spills-1200x700-3-400x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/seabirds-and-oil-spills-1200x700-3-400x233.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/seabirds-and-oil-spills-1200x700-3-160x93.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/seabirds-and-oil-spills-1200x700-3-240x140.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/seabirds-and-oil-spills-1200x700-3-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/seabirds-and-oil-spills-1200x700-3-360x210.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/seabirds-and-oil-spills-1200x700-3-200x117.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/seabirds-and-oil-spills-1200x700-3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSc Graduate, Yasmeen Zahaby, studied in the Cooke Lab and graduated in 2023. She and co-supervisor Jennifer Provencher are featured in this article: Seabirds and Oil Spills: Using DNA to Track Health Impacts. Using genetic code to monitor the impacts of oil spills on surviving seabirds, former master\u2019s student Yasmeen Zahaby developed a tool called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grad-student-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14743,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14740\/revisions\/14743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}