Reptiles at Risk

Staff Profile: Megan Rasmussen

Posted by Jeff Hathaway on August 11, 2006 at 2:06 PM

Megan joins us this summer from the University of Guelph, where she is almost finished her biology degree. She is a member of the Wildlife Club, a group that is near and dear to our hearts since Jenny and I used to be members once upon a time. When I was in Guelph in January doing a fund-raising exhibit for the club, Megan came to Stone Road Mall and spent the entire weekend helping out. When our job posting went up, she immediately applied for a position!

Megan is very knowledgeable about a wide variety of wildlife, as she is also a birder, and she spent the last two summers with the Ministry of Natural Resources on an electro-fishing crew! She is always willing to lend a hand, and has an adventurous exuberance beneath the thin veneer of shyness on the outside!

Megan is a northern Ontario girl, having grown up in Thunder Bay, and she's felt right at home for the last couple of weeks up here. Even better, we stopped in to visit her actual home while passing through Thunder Bay, and spent a night with her family. A big thanks to Chris and Doneta, Megan's parents, for the hospitality- it sure was nice to sleep in a real bed for a change, not to mention letting us tie up their phone and internet for hours!

Megan is planning to continue her education by pursuing an M.Sc. degree, though she is not yet sure just where that will take her. Perhaps her new-found interest in Nova Scotia will lure her out to the east coast!