Frei Lab: Conservation for People and Nature
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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 Research Scientist for Environment and Climate Change Canada.

I am currently building a new research program which will include field research in the Montreal & Ottawa area, as well as desktop analyses, on the urban ecology of migratory birds and species-at-risk, and co-benefits to biodiversity of Nature-based Climate Solutions. Stay tuned for new updates (and an eventual lab website!)

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

January 2022: A new moult migrant paper out lead by Ana Morales and published in Ornithology. Great job Ana! 
November 2021: I have accepted a new position as a Research Scientist with the Science and Technology Branch of Environment and Climate Change Canada. Looking forward to building my research project!
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




Appointments and Education

Research Scientist (2021 - present)
Wildlife Research Division
Science and Technology Branch, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Quantitative Biologist (2019 - 2021)
Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada
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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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