Cameron’s research interests include reef fishes, mesophotic coral ecosystems, evolution, community ecology, and genetics. He relies on the ToBo eDNA lab facility which he coordinated the development of during his second year as a graduate student. He spends much of his time in this lab space as a graduate research assistant processing samples collected on National Geographic Society Pristine Seas expeditions. Cameron also does bioinformatic analyses for Pristine Seas and ToBo Lab metabarcoding projects and contributes analyses to multiple ToBo Lab population genetics projects. He is an active AAUS scientific diver, as well as an after-hours shuttle boat operator at HIMB.
Originally from Prince Edward Island (the smallest province in Canada), Cameron studied for his BSc with majors in Biology and Kinesiology at St. Francis Xavier University (StFX). After this, he worked in multiple research related positions in Bermuda, Cambodia, and for the Canadian federal government before beginning the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Evolutionary Biology (MEME). Cameron spent most of his time in this pan-European program studying genetics and the evolution of marine animals in Montpellier (France), Kiel (Germany), and Groningen (the Netherlands).