Draft:Emily Choy

Emily Choy (PhD) is a Canadian arctic researcher and an Assistant Professor at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Choy was awarded the L’Oréal Canada For Women in Science Research Excellence Fellowship in 2020 and was appointed as an Explorer-In-Residence of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2021.

Research Career
Choy completed her PhD at the University of Manitoba. Her research focused on beluga whales in the Beaufort Sea ecosystem and was part of a community-based monitoring project in partnership with Inuit communities in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. Her PhD research was supported by an Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and a W. Garfield Weston Doctoral Award for Northern Research.

Choy was part of the 2014 Victoria Strait Mission to locate the ships lost during Franklin’s expedition and in 2021, Choy was appointed as an Explorer-In-Residence of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

In 2020, Choy received the L’Oréal Canada For Women in Science Research Excellence Fellowship, a national program linked to the L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Awards. These fellowships, each worth $20,000, support major postdoctoral research projects undertaken by young Canadians at a pivotal time in their careers.

Since 2023, as an Assistant Professor at McMaster University, Choy studies the impacts of climate change on Arctic marine predators, from belugas to murres and kittiwakes.

Choy is featured on a digital poster as part of the Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation Women in STEM initiative, which aims to make equity-deserving groups in STEM more visible, promote careers for equity-deserving groups in STEM, highlight issues of inequality, and celebrate achievements and advocates. She is a member of the Canadian Black Scientists Network. and has been awarded various Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) scholarships and awards.

Selected Publications

 * Stable Mercury Trends Support a Long-Term Diet Shift Away from Marine Foraging in Salish Sea Glaucous-Winged Gulls over the Last Century.  Environmental Science and Technology.  56:12097-12105. 2022
 * Mercury, legacy and emerging POPs, and endocrine-behavioural linkages: Implications of Arctic change in a diving seabird.  Environmental Research.  212:113190-113190. 2022
 * Warming in the land of the midnight sun: breeding birds may suffer greater heat stress at high- versus low-Arctic sites.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences.  289:20220300. 2022
 * Potential disruption of thyroid hormones by perfluoroalkyl acids in an Arctic seabird during reproduction.  Environmental Pollution.  305:119181-119181. 2022
 * Biophysical indicators and Indigenous and Local Knowledge reveal climatic and ecological shifts with implications for Arctic Char fisheries.  Global Environmental Change.  74:102469-102469. 2022