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As a conservation scientist, I am committed to having my contributions transcend pure academia. One way to do this is media outreach, working from the premise that, 'if its not in the media, its not a social priority'.

Here are some examples of media that have highlighted our work:

Print (popular and scientific)

Victoria Times Colonist. Opposition to orca tags gathers pace. Febuary 2012.

Vancouver Sun (and others). Surfer's documentary speaks for marine life, by Judith LaVoie. January 2012.

Scientific American. First Nations tribe combines science with legacy of conservation. Feature article by Anne Casselman. August 2011.

Scientific American. The Bear Truth: Grizzlies' snagged hair samples reveal dependence on salmon. Feature article by Anne Casselman. August 2011.

Scientific American. Getting the grizzly story: What its like to report in the Great Bear Rainforest. Guest Blog by Anne Casselman. August 2011.

Scientific American. Hair of the Bear (Featured slideshow). Captions by Anne Casselman. August 2011.

QQS Society Blog. Children of this Priceless Coast. William Housty and Chris Darimont. May 2011.

Conservation Magazine. Shrink to Fit. By David Malakoff. Spring 2011. Volume 12. Issue 1.

Conservation magazine (Journal Watch; This week in Conservation Science). Let them Run (December 2010)

Patagonia Cleanest Line (blog). Sharing the wealth of salmon

Patagonia Winter Favorites catalogue 2010. Grizzly bears, salmon, and empty autumn rivers.

Victoria Times Colonist (October 22, 2010). Save some salmon for the bears and whales, study says, by Judith Lavoie

Geographical Magasine (UK) (September 2010 issue). The bear necessities, by Nick Garbutt

Victoria Times Colonist (August 27, 2010). Group says animal welfare rules should apply in the wild, by Judith Lavoie

Globe & Mail (July 30, 2010). Humans need to change to avoid violent wildlife encounters: expert, by Shanon Moneo

Calgary Herald (Business section; March 24, 2010). BC's coastal wildlife would be devastated by oil spill: report. by Judith Lavoie. (also appeared in Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Financial Post, National Post & others)

Victoria Times Colonist. (March 23 - 21st Anniversary of Exxon Valdez oil spill). Report warns of catastrophic oil spill in waters north of Vancouver Island. by Judith Lavoie.

Vancouver Sun (March 2010). We're a never-kill-wolf province, public says. BC government faced with tough decision on caribou recovery issue. By Larry Pynn.

Maclean's Magazine (February 2010). Survival of the smallest. Humans have evolutionary impact on animals; our prey is getting smaller, breeding earlier. By Rachel Mendleson.

Victoria Times Colonist (January 2010). Victoria researcher gains fame for big-shrink theory, by Judith Lavoie.

Discover Magazine (December 2009). Human hunters accelerate evolution (#30 of Top 100 Science Stories of 2009). Link.

Scientific American (November 2009). Salmon collapse could be bad news for bears. By Anne Casselman.

Counterpunch magazine (October 2009). OP ED. The Bear Essentials of Saving Salmon.

Victoria Times Colonist (October 2009). OP ED. The Bear Essentials of Saving Salmon. Fully protected safe havens would have positive effect on ecosystems.

CFAX radio interview (September 2009). Cross-breeding in Vancouver Island wolves.

Vancouver Sun (September 2009). BC cull led to 'monster wolves': study.

Victoria Times Colonist (Septebmber 2009). BC's wolf cull on the island led to 'monster' hybrid: study.

Oprah Magazine (May 2009). A better way to deal with wild animals, by Rick Bass. Link

Harper's Magazine (April 2009). 'Findings' section (p. 84): "Biologists warned that human pressures were causing large mammals to shrink..." (Yes, one partial sentance amidst many other notable or strange scientific findings delivered in snippet form)

Outdoor Canada (April 2009). News nuisance. How a questionable report put trophy hunters on trial by media, by George Gruenefeld. Although some Europeon hunting magasines reported positively on the findings of our PNAS paper, this Canadian one did not. It is important, nonetheless, to share it here in PDF.

Environmental Health Perspectives (May 2009). Reversing Human Impacts on Fish Evolution, by John Tibbets. Link

Earth Magazine (April 2009) Hunting Speeds up Evolution. PDF

Toronto Globe & Mail (March 13, 2009). Lone wolf: Canada's newest 'marine mammal' (Op Ed), By Chris Darimont, Chris Genovali, and Paul Paquet.

Victoria Times Colonist (March 11, 2009). Unique coastal wolves merit protetion, study concludes, by Judith Lavoie

If you read Mandarin, check out this article in a Chinese magazine for children (March 2009).

Vancouver Sun (March 11, 2009). Coastal Wolves are 'like no other wolves: study, by Judith Lavoie.

Boston Globe (Feb 23, 2009). Cod in the act of evolution, by Murray Carpenter.

National Wildlife Magazine (Feb/March 2009). Humans as 'super-predators', by Laura Tangley.

Vancouver Sun (Feb 12, 2009). Natural selection is a balancing act; Humans intervene in many ways, some of them good and some bad, by Stephen Hume.

New York Times (Feb 09, 2009). Seeing the risks of humanity's hand in species evolution, by Cornelia Dean.

New York Times (Jan 12, 2009). Research ties human acts to harmful rates of species evolution, by Cornelia Dean.

London Daily Telegraph (Jan 12, 2009). Human fishing and hunting accelerating rate of species evolution, by Richard Alleyne.

Reuters (Jan 12, 2009). As humans hunt, their prey gets smaller, by Maggie Fox.

International Herald Tribune (Jan 13, 2009). Research ties human acts to harmful rates of species evolution, by Cornelia Dean.

Toronto Globe and Mail (Jan 12, 2009). Natural selection gives way to human selection, by Martin Mittelstaedt.

Toronto National Post (Jan 12, 2009). Trophy hunt changing evolution, study finds, by Matthew Coutts.

Calgary Herald (Jan 13, 2009). Hunting affecting the evolution of animals, by Kelly Cryderman.

Canadian Press (Jan 12, 2009). Trophy hunting, fishing throwing evolution astray.

Toronto Globe and Mail (Dec 3, 2008). Overfishing pushing salmon stocks to collapse, by Mark Hume.

Victoria Times Colonist (Dec 4, 2008). monitoring gaps endanger salmon runs: study, by Judith Lavoie

Toronto Globe and Mail (Dec 8, 2008). Salmon populations: watch more streams (editorial)

Test

Popular Books

Douglas Brinkley. The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the crusade for America. Harper Collins. (interview re: PNAS Human Predators paper).

 

Television

ABC 7 News. The human impact on the size of fish (feature interview). 2009. Watch it here.

National Geographic. A Man among Wolves (interview only!!!). 2007.

Canadian Geographic. Secrets of the Coast Wolf. (1 hour documentary). 2005.

National Geographic. Last Stand of the Great Bear (1 hour documentary). 2004. Watch the .wmv 1 minute trailer here.

Discovery Canada. Rainwolves (1 hour documentary). 2003.

Discovery Canada. Great Canadian Rivers: the Green River. (interview). 2002.

Discovery Canada. The Ancient Rainforest: Land of Giants. (interview). 2002.

 

Radio

CBC Affiliates (via UC Science Daily). 1 minute .mp3 files. Part 1. Part 2.

CBC. Talk of the (Vancouver) Island. A Wolf Like None Other. March 11, 2009. mp3 file

NPR. Talk of the Nation Science Friday. Human-driven Evolution (download .mp3 top left). Jan 2009

CBC. Quirks & Quarks. Unnatural selection. Jan 2009.

CBC. As it Happens. Timber Wolf Diet (Part 2, 16:20). Dec 2008.

 

Internet

Ecoworldly (March 14, 2009). Salmon-eating wolves are one of a kind, by Jake Richardson.

Scientific American (March 03, 2009). Slow recovery for shrinking fish, by Katherine Harmon.

AAAS ScienceNOW (Jan 12, 2009). The fastest way to change a species; start eating it, by Elsa Youngsteadt.

National Geographic (Jan 12, 2009). Hunters speeding up evolution of trophy prey?, by Anne Minard.

LiveScience (Jan 12, 2009). Super-predators: humans force rapid evolution of animals, by Robert Roy Britt.

Wired Magazine online (Jan 12, 2009). Human hunters genetically shrink their prey, by Alexis Madrigal.

BBC (Jan 13, 2009). The incredible shrinking fish, by Richard Black.

CBC (Jan 1, 2009). Human consumption speeding up evolutionary change: study.

David Suzuki's Science Matters (syndicated column, Jan 23, 2009). Hunting in parks at odds with conservation, by David Suzuki and Faisal Moola

Environmental Research Web (Jan 12, 2009). Human harvesting forces ecological change, by Liz Kalaugher.

FoxNews.com Super-predators: humans force rapid evolution of animals, by Robert Roy Britt.

Discovery Channel (Jan 13, 2009). Human hunting shapes animal populations, by Jennifer Viewgas.

National Parks Traveller (Jan 18, 2009). Huamns as 'Super-Predators' - New study offers startling information about hunting and fishing, by Jim Burnett.

Scientific American (Jan 15, 2009). Honey - we shrank the food -- really, really fast, by Katherine Harmon.

Scienceagogo.com (Jan 13, 2009). Humans reshaping other species at lightening speed, by Kate Melville.

Red Orbit (Jan 13, 2009). Hunting larger game affects evolutionary process.

National Wildlife Federation (Feb 2009). Humans as 'super-predators', by Laura Tangley.

Nature.com (Sept 02, 2008). Let them eat fish, by Amber Dance.

National Geographic (Sept 02, 2008). Wolves prefer seafood to steak, by Anne Minard

BBC (Sept 03, 2008). Wolves prefer fishing to hunting.

National Geographic (October 01, 2004). Canada's rainforest wolves a link to the past, by Stefan Lovgren.