JasonBiodiversity is on the losing end of our fantastic climb in population, and in prosperity.
Conserving biodiversity in the face of rapid landscape and climate change requires that we understand how species respond to those changes. That's my passion. I am a wildlife ecologist with an eye for the big picture: a field grandiosely called macroecology. I research terrestrial and coastal wildlife ecology in large, complex, often human-altered landscapes. I examine the spatial features and ecological processes that help species persist, or send them into declines. I help apply this research to conservation challenges, such as managing landscape disturbance and enhancing species-at-risk recovery. My specialty is mammals, though my team also works on marine fish and songbirds. I have had the good fortune to research Canada’s ecosystems from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland, and the Rocky Mountains and northern boreal forests in between. Macroecology entails the study of many processes, patterns, and species at once, but a few favourites stand out: wolverines, fishers and marten; grizzly and black bears; white-tailed deer and moose; and not least, red squirrels. On the coast, I work on sea otters, seals and seal lions, and help with gray whales. |
Education
Ph.D., University of Victoria, Dept. of Biology. 2010. NSERC Scholar. M.Sc., University of Alberta, Dept. of Biology. 1999. NSERC Scholar. B.Sc.H., Carleton University, Dept. of Biology. 1995. Past Experience Senior Research Scientist (Wildlife Ecology), Alberta Research Council / Alberta Innovates, 2001-2019. Big Game Management Biologist (Caribou, Moose, and Black Bears), Newfoundland & Labrador Inland Fish & Wildlife Division, 1999-2001. Academic Service COSEWIC Terrestrial Mammals Specialist Subcommittee Associate Editor, Ecology and Evolution. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution. Ecological Society of America. Society for Conservation Biology. Former President of the Alberta Chapter - The Wildlife Society. 
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