After 25+ years of working as a wildlife scientist across Canada, I have learned that professional relationships are also often personal relationships. Partners and funders want to know what kind of person they've teaming up with, beyond the usual list of publications. So here it is. Hopefully after landing here, you will still want to partner with me on research, or be a friend.

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Wildlife biologist?
Interesting....
Why would you ever do that?
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I had the great fortune of surviving a serious challenge to my mortality in my 19th year. With my subsequent annual survival under no guarantees, I became quite circumspect about how I want to live my life.

My fathers - farmers, fishers, labourers going back generations - lived and died on the ebb and flow of the natural resources available to them. My Temple, then, is Earth in its natural and wild glory; Gods, the forces that pattern Earth's brilliance. 

I decided to spend my life learning about and protecting that Temple. I hope my fathers would approve.

Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods."

-Thomas Babington Macaulay
Lays of Ancient Rome, 1842