News

-November 2011-

Congratulations to Larissa and Erin for recent publication success.

Jeff gives a talk on flying squirrels to the Mississippi Valley Field Naturalists.

-October 2011-

Jeff attends the North American Symposium on Bat Research in Toronto.

-September 2011-

Welcome to two new lab members, Alban and Britney!

-July 2011-

Jeff participates in a symposium on animal movement analyses at the Stats 2011 meeting in Montreal.

Larissa gets a paper on Aleutian disease published in PLoS ONe. Congratulations Larissa!

-June 2011-

Our group takes time out from a busy field season for a BBQ at Jeff's house.

-May 2011-

New students join the lab this month! Welcome to Lanna Desantis, Morgan Wehtje, and Jill Lalor!

Meghan attends the CSEE annual meeting in Banff.

-April 2011-

Jeff is appointed as an Associate Editor for the journal Wildlife Research

-March 2011-

Colin publishes a paper on flying squirrel genetic structure during range expansion in Global Change Biology.

-December 2010-

Jeff is interviewed by the Toronto Star for a story about mink. 

Congratulations to Aaron Walpole for defending his M.Sc. thesis on functional connectivity for Canada lynx, and for landing a job as a biologist with our research group. Aaron's honour's thesis has just been published as well!

Congratulations to Kaela for winning a job as the genetics lab technician for our research group at Trent!

-November 2010-

Congratulations to Colin on defending his Ph.D. thesis! Dr. Garroway is off to Oxford in January to work with Ben Sheldon.

Publication success this month. Colin gets a paper accepted to Global Change Biology.

-October 2010-

NSERC success! Our lynx research group has had success in the recent Strategic Projects grants competition. The proposal was led by Dennis Murray.

Check out the Trent University press release about recent coverage of our research in two consecutive issues of Canadian Geographic.

-September 2010-

Our flying squirrel research is profiled by CHEX Newswatch (large WMV file).

-July 2010-

Colin gets a postdoctoral fellowship in the Edward Grey Institute at Oxford with Ben Sheldon. He'll be working on songbird social networks. Congratulations Colin!

-June 2010-

Canadian Geographic profiles our flying squirrel research (June 2010 issue).

Larissa defends her thesis! Congratulations!

-May 2010-

PLE lab hits Quebec City for the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution. Jeff, Kaela, Meghan, Colin, Aaron, and Erin all present papers.

Andrea Coombs gets a 2-year internship with Nova Scotia DNR! Congratulations Andrea!

Two summer students are on board. Welcome to Jamie and Candace.

Publication successes this month for Aaron, Erin, and Andrea.

-April 2010-

Larissa gets a 2-year research intern position with the MNR. Congratulations Larissa!

-March 2010-

Kaela gives an Ecology and Evolution seminar at Trent.

-February 2010-

Andrea successfully defends her thesis! Congratulations Andrea!

-January 2010-

Aaron heads for field season number 2 of the lynx project!

-November 2009-

A lab potluck was held at Jeff's house on 20 November with guest of honour Dr. Jochen Jaeger. Earlier in the day, Jochen put on a great workshop on measuring landscape fragmentation, and a presented a seminar in the Ecology and Evolution series.

-October 2009-

See the piece by Discovery Channel's Daily Planet on our flying squirrel research, beginning at about 4:50 of this clip.

Jeff gives seminars on the mink research project during a Maritime tour at UNB, SMU, NSAC, and Acadia.

-September 2009-

Discovery Channel's Daily Planet spends a day filming the flying squirrel project. The piece will be shown later this year.

Welcome to Dr. Kaela Beauclerc! Kaela is a new postdoc working jointly with our group and Albrecht's group at Laurentian University on the mink project. Welcome also to Meghan Murrant, a new M.Sc. student with our group at Trent.

M.Sc. student Keith Munro defends his thesis at Carleton. Congratulations Keith!

-August 2009-

A nice piece from Laurentian University's alumni magazine about our mink research.

Welcome to Ashley McLaren, a new biologist working with our group on Manitoulin Island biodiversity surveys.

-June 2009-

Our research on climate change and hybrid flying squirrels was covered during June 2009 by various media outlets including the Peterborough Examiner and Canada's national newspaper, the Globe and Mail.

Colin's was featured in June 2009 on Peterborough's CHEX TV, and the piece can be seen on youtube.

Congratulations to Anne Kidd for landing a geneticist job with the MNR!

-May 2009-

Jeff, Aaron, Andrea, Colin, Erin, and Larissa travelled to Halifax for the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution. The PLE lab presented 8 papers at the meeting. In all, more than 30 faculty and students from Trent made the trip. See the Trent group photo.

Climate change induced hybridization of flying squirrels profiled on the Russian news site Infox - processed through Google translator!

-April 2009-

Erin gets an NSERC CGS! Congratulations Erin!

Heidi defends her M.Sc. thesis! The same month, her undergraduate research is published in Écoscience. Congratulations Heidi! 

-March 2009-

Colin gets his flying squirrel hybridization paper accepted for publication at Global Change Biology. Congratulations Colin!

Anne Kidd's mink hybridization paper is profiled in the Toronto Star

Jeff gives a fisher presentation at Little Cataraqui Creek Conservation Area to a standing room only crowd.

-February 2009-

Ashley Tamlin gets her honour's thesis accepted for publication. Nice work Ashley!

-December 2008-

Anne gets her mink genetics research accepted for publication in Molecular Ecology, and Heidi gets an undergraduate research project accepted in Écoscience. Congratulations to both!

Our research group has a potluck at Jeff's house - a highlight is the 2008 field season slide show.

-November 2008-

Our report on monitoring wolverines in boreal forest is released!

Heidi presents her thesis research at the 2008 Waterbirds conference on South Padre Island, Texas.

-October 2008-

Colin's article on fisher genetic networks makes the cover of Evolutionary Applications. Congratulations Colin!

Erin Koen gives a seminar in the Trent University Ecology and Evolution seminar series.

Colin heads to the North American Symposium on Bat Research in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

-September 2008-

Erin Koen joins the research group as a new Ph.D. student in landscape genetics. Welcome Erin!

-July 2008-

Our flying squirrel research is highlighted in Canadian Wildlife magazine.

Colin gets a paper on genetic networks accepted for publication in Evolutionary Applications. Congratulations Colin!

Mink trapping version 2008 is underway in the Niagara Falls region. Larissa gets her first mink.

-June 2008-

Our mink research makes Wikipedia - and we didn't do it, honest!

-May 2008-

Jeff and Colin head west - to the 2008 Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution meeting at UBC.

Aaron Walpole joins the group as an M.Sc. student. Welcome Aaron! He'll be working on lynx ecology in northeastern Ontario.

-April 2008-

Jeff attends the 2008 Ontario Road Ecology workshop at the Toronto Zoo.

-February 2008-

Anne Kidd defends her M.Sc. thesis at Laurentian University. Congratulations Anne!

Our fisher research is in the news.

-January 2008-

Jeff is invited by Jochen Jaeger to give a seminar for the Concordia University geography department.

-November 2007-

Jeff is appointed to the Terrestrial Mammals Specialist Subcommittee of COSEWIC.

-October 2007-

Jeff presents a paper at "Canada Lynx on the Border", a lynx workshop in Grand Portage, Minnesota.

Heidi attends an annual gathering of Great Lakes colonial waterbird researchers.

Jeff and Colin present seminars in the Natural Resources DNA Profiling and Forensic Centre seminar series. Jeff discusses mink research and Colin discusses using graph theory in population genetic studies.

-September 2007-

Three new graduate students join the group this fall. Welcome to Andrea Coombs, Larissa Nituch, and Heidi Scherr!

Our wolverine research was published in a recent special wolverine section of the Journal of Wildlife Management.

Gina Varrin, Jeff, and Paul Gray release a report on the relationship between climate change and terrestrial biodiversity in Ontario. The is part of MNR's climate change series.

-August 2007-

Our mink research is published in Biological Conservation.

-July 2007-

Ryan Gorman defends his thesis! Congratulations Ryan!

-June 2007-

Colin and Jeff visit the Carleton University Landscape Ecology lab, where Colin presents some of his work on graph theory.

Jeff presents a paper on "Flying squirrels in winter" at the annual meeting of Ontario Nature.

-May 2007-

Colin and Anne present papers at the Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution meeting in Toronto.

-April 2007-

Ph.D. student Colin Garroway received a grant-in-aid from the American Society of Mammalogists. Congratulations Colin!

Jeff attends the annual meeting of the US-IALE in Tucson.

-January 2007-

Denis Carr, M.Sc. alumni, has published part of his thesis in Oikos. Denis has used a genetic method to measure habitat suitability for fishers. 

-December 2006-

Undergraduate student Ashley Tamlin of Nipissing University has had an article published in the Journal of Mammalogy. Congratulations Ashley!

-September 2006-

Our research group has just moved onto the Trent University campus, where we now occupy the new DNA Building.

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