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. My research has focused on avian species-at-risk, including their conservation, behaviour, habitat use, community, and population ecology, and more recently macroecology, biodiversity conservation, and ecosystem services in working landscapes.
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 and granted me an enlightened perspective beyond the ivory tower of academia.
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 and granted me an enlightened perspective beyond the ivory tower of academia.
News
August 2019: A new paper out using the bright spots approach linking water clarity in lakes to citizen stewardship - read all about it here! https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss3/art22/
December 2018: After a long wait on revisions our new paper on the temporal variable of Black-capped Chickadee mass has been accepted in Canadian Field Naturalist, bravely led by the hard working Emma Nip. Well done Emma!
August 2018: Life just got exponentially busier with the birth of my son! I will officially be on maternity leave until fall 2019.
June 2018: Our new paper that identified 'bright spots' of multifunctionality and biodiversity in agricultural landscapes in now published in the Journal of Applied Ecology
May 2018: Our new paper on agricultural land use predictors of bird diversity across multiple guilds is now published in Regional Environmental Change
April 2018: Exciting new research on Purple Martins in the Montréal area will be starting this summer as a collaboration with Dr. Kyle Elliott and incoming graduate student Kristen Lalla from McGill University
December 2017: New paper by co-supervised honour student Catherine Jarjour on the changing phenology of passerine birds in s. Québec and climate-sensitivity windows now published in Animal Migration
September 2017: Started a new research project on moult-migrants using MOTUS with co-supervised McGill MSc student, Ana Morales
June 2017: Excited to be part of a working group led by the Natural Capital Project and the Stockholm Resilience Centre on the future of research on food systems
March 2017: Thrilled to receive support from Bird Protection Québec and The Kenneth M Molson Foundation to support the extension of the MOTUS wildlife tracking system in Montréal
January 2017: Started new projects using point-of-care devices to measure blood chemistry of wild birds in the field and optimizing placement of telemetry towers with co-supervised honour students, Casey Leung and Megan Phillips
September 2016: Co-supervising two honours McGill undergrads, Emma Nip and Catherine Jarjour on the ecology of migrating birds
September 2016: Authored the COSEWIC draft status update for the Red-headed Woodpecker
December 2018: After a long wait on revisions our new paper on the temporal variable of Black-capped Chickadee mass has been accepted in Canadian Field Naturalist, bravely led by the hard working Emma Nip. Well done Emma!
August 2018: Life just got exponentially busier with the birth of my son! I will officially be on maternity leave until fall 2019.
June 2018: Our new paper that identified 'bright spots' of multifunctionality and biodiversity in agricultural landscapes in now published in the Journal of Applied Ecology
May 2018: Our new paper on agricultural land use predictors of bird diversity across multiple guilds is now published in Regional Environmental Change
April 2018: Exciting new research on Purple Martins in the Montréal area will be starting this summer as a collaboration with Dr. Kyle Elliott and incoming graduate student Kristen Lalla from McGill University
December 2017: New paper by co-supervised honour student Catherine Jarjour on the changing phenology of passerine birds in s. Québec and climate-sensitivity windows now published in Animal Migration
September 2017: Started a new research project on moult-migrants using MOTUS with co-supervised McGill MSc student, Ana Morales
June 2017: Excited to be part of a working group led by the Natural Capital Project and the Stockholm Resilience Centre on the future of research on food systems
March 2017: Thrilled to receive support from Bird Protection Québec and The Kenneth M Molson Foundation to support the extension of the MOTUS wildlife tracking system in Montréal
January 2017: Started new projects using point-of-care devices to measure blood chemistry of wild birds in the field and optimizing placement of telemetry towers with co-supervised honour students, Casey Leung and Megan Phillips
September 2016: Co-supervising two honours McGill undergrads, Emma Nip and Catherine Jarjour on the ecology of migrating birds
September 2016: Authored the COSEWIC draft status update for the Red-headed Woodpecker
Appointments and Education
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Researcher (2017 - present)
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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