She holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers University and was a post-doctoral fellow at McGill University before moving to Toronto in 1994. Most of her research is carried out on Lake Ontario and in the Muskokas. She leads the Aquatic Ecology Lab where research in the following areas is being carried out: Ecology of littoral areas in lakes: Spatial and temporal distribution of habitats and benthic communities. Food webs: Feeding interactions in planktonic and benthic communities, especially between invertebrates and algae. Macroecology: Body size distribution, Allometric relationships, Scaling of environmental variability.