Population Ecology & Evolutionary Genetics Group

Kyle is an NSERC funded MSc student joining the group to work on questions about the demography and origins of the killer whales that are expanding their range into the Canadian Arctic. He comes to us by way of UNB and is jointly supervised with Steve Ferguson at DFO. 

Colleen Kimmett published a really fun article on urban squirrels, featuring some of our research, in the June 2017 issue of The Walrus. I have to say the title in the print addition better.

It's conference season and least week Kirsten and I presented at the excellent Wildlife70 conference at Trent University (my alma mater) on the value of long-term ecological and evolutionary research. Led by my PhD advisor Jeff Bowman the group arrived at a consensus s...

Caitlin and Kirsten have just completed the first theses to come our research group. And both nailed their defenses! More squirrel fun to come this summer with some new squirrel tracking toys

Caitlin's public talk at the University of Winnipeg...   

and Kirsten here...

Infrastructure update... our server is up and running. 512 gigs of RAM, plus, plus plus! Soon to be put to work.

Big congrats to Karen Dunmall for her 2017 Liber Ero Fellowship Award. Karen's research will focus on predicting and monitoring aquatic biodiversity shifts in the Arctic, with a focus on using spatial genetics and eDNA to track distributional shifts in aquatic species....

New coverage of an aging paper. Hybrid flying squirrels are used as an example of population genetic processes being one of six major ecological processes affected by climate change in a nice article in the the Sydney Morning Herald. Interest in this paper seems to pop...

Squirrel Number 300 this season with more to come!

Cracked 250 captures this week with lots of help from the abundant and bold squirrels at Kildonan Park. 

This guy skipped the baited traps and went straight to the source!

Many more reds then greys but a good number of both.