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Item Imagining Newfoundland - Reflections on Tourism and Self from the Bonavista Peninsula(2018-08-31) Symmes, Clara; Bachelor's DegreeJutting off of the coast of Newfoundland in the northern Atlantic Ocean is the Bonavista Peninsula, a region where I spent four weeks as a volunteer at a hostel in the summer of 2018. Nature tourism has played a large role in my life. Growing up, I spent summers hiking and winters skiing in New Hampshire's White Mountains. As an adult I have traveled to scenic landmarks in the United States and Europe, but my recent studies in the Goucher College Philosophy Department have encouraged me to think about my travel in a different way. The Bonavista Peninsula was the perfect place for me to learn. At the hostel, I worked five hours a day, five days a week either preparing breakfast for the hostel guests, changing beds and cleaning, or monitoring the hostel in the evening. Whether I was on-shift or not, I was constantly exposed to an international community of travelers who had come to the region for its remarkable landscape and wildlife. As the region pushes to adapt to a growing number of tourists, I had a front-row seat at a young tourism business working to strengthen the economy of a community which has struggled since a moratorium on cod fishing was enacted in 1992. Join me as I reflect upon my time on the Bonavista Peninsula and the experiences there that challenged and shaped my ideas of participating in tourism in rural Newfoundland and beyond.Item Migratory Connectivity of a Songbird: Population Genetics Reveal the Wintering Locations of the American Redstart(2017-01-01) Connell, Eileen Bernadette; Studds, Colin E.; Omland, Kevin E.; Geography and Environmental Systems; Geography and Environmental SystemsMigratory connectivity is a term used to describe how breeding populations are geographically connected to winter populations for a migrating species. Determining the strength of migratory connectivity is important for a number of basic and applied research questions related to the ecology and evolution of migratory species. Population genetics, particularly neutral genetic markers, are often used to measure migratory connectivity for species that are too small to carry transmitters. Previous analyses of genetic variation in the American redstart (Setophaga ruticilla), a Neotropical-Nearctic migrant that breeds in North America and winters in Middle America, revealed unique mitochondrial haplogroups mostly restricted to Newfoundland. I determined the geographic distribution of this population in winter and whether it remains separate or intermixes with other populations of redstarts on the Caribbean winter range. To assess the migratory connectivity of the Newfoundland haplogroup, I sequenced the mitochondrial control region for 180 blood samples collected at nine locations across the non-breeding range. I then compared the sequences to the published sequences from the breeding grounds. I found that the core Newfoundland group (Haplogroup A) was restricted to non-breeding populations in Puerto Rico and the eastern Dominican Republic. Thus, individuals breeding at the north-eastern edge of the range winter almost exclusively in the eastern Caribbean. These results suggest that migratory connectivity in this species occurs over finer geographic scales than previously recognized. These findings contribute to a better understanding of how individuals and populations are connected between breeding and non-breeding improving our understanding of population ecology and evolution.