Husnah Azmi

Husnah's current research aims to build foundational knowledge for the development of passive acoustic monitoring in freshwater ecosystems. Through her PhD, she intends to explore the relationship between ecological conditions and underwater soundscapes, focusing on how environmental factors and species behaviors influence acoustic patterns. Her work will investigate: 1) variations in acoustic diversity between lotic and lentic environments, 2) soundscape responses to a disturbance event (macrophyte removal) in Lake Scugog and Canal Lake in Southern Ontario, and 3) the impact of a freshwater fish species with a known acoustic signature on overall acoustic diversity.

Prior to her PhD project, she completed her Master’s at TMU under the supervision of Dr. Stephanie Melles and Dr. Andrew Laursen. Her study analyzed the trophic transfer of methylmercury and selenium between Chlorella pyrenoidosa and an aquatic annelid, Aeolosoma variegatum, to identify whether selenium exhibited a protective effect against mercury toxicity in these organisms across trophic levels.