NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow. Wilmers Lab. Environmental Studies Department. University of California, Santa Cruz.
NEWEST! Our PNAS paper was voted among Discover Magazine's top 100 science stories of 2009 at #30. Link.
NEWER! I was honoured by the Animal Welfare Institute with the Christine Stevens Wildlife Award for our non-invasive work on Raincoast grizzly-salmon systems
NEW! Video from Fall 2008 research in Africa (link)
I study ecological and evolutionary processes - natural and human-caused - that maintain or imperil biological diversity. Recognizing that measures to conserve biodiversity consistently relate to human behaviour, I am increasingly interested in natural and social science questions relating to the contemporary ‘human animal’.
My interests reside in three research domains: