I am a PhD student in the department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph under the supervision of Karl Cottenie (University of Guelph) and Chris Buddle (McGill University). My main research interests are Arctic and community ecology. My PhD research is focused on Arctic flies (Diptera) and the importance of considering scale and different biodiversity measures in community assembly. I am working on a fly dataset at the continental scale (across 12 Canadian northern sites) and at local-scale in Churchill, MB, to examine the large-scale and small-scale drivers of fly community assembly. I first became interested in Arctic ecology after finishing my undergraduate in Applied Zoology at McGill University. I was hired as a field assistant for the Northern Biodiversity Program, which documents changes in Canada's northern arthropod fauna. I had the opportunity that summer to travel to northern sites to collect insects. Being part of this project motivated me to pursue a M.Sc. in Arctic ecology. My M.Sc. thesis was a molecular and ecological study of flies (Diptera) which assessed differences in diversity between glacial and postglacial grasslands in the southern Yukon.

• Solecki, AM, Skevington, JH, Buddle, CM, Wheeler, TA. In review. Phylogeography of higher Diptera in glacial and postglacial grasslands in western North America. BMC Ecology. 26 February 2019. MS# BECO-D-19-00025.
• Rogy, P, Wheeler, TA, Solecki, AM. Accepted pending minor revisions. Spatial distribution of acalyptrate fly assemblages in Northern Canada. Polar Biology. Submitted 1 Oct 2018. MS# POBI-D-18-00214R1.
• Solecki, AM, Buddle, CM, Wheeler, TA. 2016. Distribution and community structure of chloropid flies (Diptera: Chloropidae) in Nearctic glacial and postglacial grasslands. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 9(4): 358–368.
• Solecki, AM, Wheeler, TA. 2015. A new species of Neossos Malloch (Diptera, Heleomyzidae) from the Yukon Territory, Canada, and a revised key to the Nearctic species. Biodiversity Data Journal. 3: e6351.