My primary goal as a researcher is to do high quality science geared towards applied conservation and management issues relevant in a rapidly changing world. I work as a Quantitative Wildlife Biologist in Environment and Climate Change Canada.
My research has focused on avian species-at-risk, including their conservation, behaviour, habitat use, community, and population ecology, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services in working landscapes and the effect of climate change of migratory gamebirds.
My involvement beyond academia includes applied conservation work, scientific communication, education, and outreach. I believe that I have an ethical and moral duty to be involved in applied conservation and management issues in my country and community. In turn, being grounded in the realities and the challenges facing conservation in today’s changing world has inspired some of my best work as a scientist.
My research has focused on avian species-at-risk, including their conservation, behaviour, habitat use, community, and population ecology, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services in working landscapes and the effect of climate change of migratory gamebirds.
My involvement beyond academia includes applied conservation work, scientific communication, education, and outreach. I believe that I have an ethical and moral duty to be involved in applied conservation and management issues in my country and community. In turn, being grounded in the realities and the challenges facing conservation in today’s changing world has inspired some of my best work as a scientist.
News
September 2021: Two new honours students have joined the MBO-McGill research team, welcome Mathilde Lefvert and Elena Transe-Drabinia!
August 2021: It was my privilege to give an Early Career Research Award plenary at the joint AOS & SCO-SOC conference
August 2021: Incoming MSc student, Vanessa Poirier, is starting research on the habitat requirements of molt-migrant Swainson's Thrushes.
June 2021: Our new collaborative paper documenting spatial structure in the migration of Swaison's Thrushes is out in Movement Ecology!
April 2021: New hybrid warbler documented in Wilson's Journal of Ornithology along with colleagues at the McGill Bird Observatory and collaborators at the Black Swamp Bird Observatory
September 2020: Our paper exploring spatial-temporal trends of 'bright spots' of multi functionality related to landscape, agricultural and bird diversity it out in Global Food Security
October 2019: Our paper on using point of care devices to quantify the nutritional state of free-living birds has been accepted in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A.
September 2019: I have accepted a new position as Quantitative Wildlife Biologist with the Migratory Bird and Wildlife Health section of the Canadian Wildlife Service of Environment and Climate Change Canada.
August 2021: It was my privilege to give an Early Career Research Award plenary at the joint AOS & SCO-SOC conference
August 2021: Incoming MSc student, Vanessa Poirier, is starting research on the habitat requirements of molt-migrant Swainson's Thrushes.
June 2021: Our new collaborative paper documenting spatial structure in the migration of Swaison's Thrushes is out in Movement Ecology!
April 2021: New hybrid warbler documented in Wilson's Journal of Ornithology along with colleagues at the McGill Bird Observatory and collaborators at the Black Swamp Bird Observatory
September 2020: Our paper exploring spatial-temporal trends of 'bright spots' of multi functionality related to landscape, agricultural and bird diversity it out in Global Food Security
October 2019: Our paper on using point of care devices to quantify the nutritional state of free-living birds has been accepted in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A.
September 2019: I have accepted a new position as Quantitative Wildlife Biologist with the Migratory Bird and Wildlife Health section of the Canadian Wildlife Service of Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Appointments and Education
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Quantitative Biologist (2019 - present)
Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada Researcher (2017 - 2019) Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University FQRNT Postdoctoral Fellow (2014 - 2017) Biology, University of Ottawa (Maternity leave from 2015-2016) PhD (2009-2014) Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University MSc (2005-2007) Wildlife Biology, McGill University BSc honours (2004) Biology, Carleton University |
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