POLAR Antarctic Scholarship recipients

Brady O'Connor

Brady O'Connor studied microbial communities in lava tube before shifting the focus of his research to Earth's polar regions.

Learn more about Brady.

Anna-Mireilla Hayden

Anna-Mireilla Hayden, a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of Waterloo, studies how water flows beneath Antarctic glaciers to understand its effect on their stability—past, present, and future.

Mackenzie Poirier

Mackenzie Poirier, a Biology PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo Mackenzie studies how Antarctic green algae thrive in cold and polar winter darkness. Her work is helping reveal how polar ecosystems survive.