Suzanne Gray

Suzanne Gray is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Biology, University of Prince Edward Island (Canada), having recently moved her lab after 11 years in the School of Environment & Natural Resources at The Ohio State University where she served as the Stone Laboratory associate director of academic programming and research. Gray completed several years of postdoctoral work at McGill University (Quebec) and Fisheries and Oceans Canada after completing her Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University (British Columbia) in 2007. Her research and teaching focus on understanding the response of freshwater fishes to human-driven environmental change. Specifically, her lab group investigates the underlying behavioral and physiological mechanisms that allow some species to cope with environmental change while others cannot. Gray has worked in large lakes globally, including in Indonesia, Malawi, and Uganda, with more recent efforts focused on Lake Erie fishes. For example, using OSU’s Stone Laboratory as a base, she and her team investigated how walleye and their prey, and the anglers that seek to catch the walleye are affected by harmful algal blooms. Gray is carrying on this work in PEI, assessing the impact of multiple stressors on a recovering striped bass population. She is passionate about teaching and training the next generation of freshwater stewards and has won national and international teaching awards for her contributions to providing experiential learning opportunities for students. Gray also served as the president of the Ohio Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, was an associate editor for the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences and a board member for the Lake Erie & Aquatic Research Network.