Employee directory

Profile

• Joined the Canadian Forest Service in 1990

Responsibilities:

• Forest wildlife studies with an emphasis on species at risk and forestry practices
• Develop ecosystem based management to approach sustainable forest manage

• Expert advise to forest industry and stakeholders

Areas of Knowledge:

• Mammalian population dynamics
• Conservation biology
• Population and habitat predictive modeling

• Conservation of species at risk

Committees:

 

• Co-chair – American Marten Recovery Team – Newfoundland population
• Member – Newfoundland Red Crossbill Recovery Team
• Member – Southern Labrador Woodland Caribou Recovery Team

• Chair – Program Advisory Committee, Fish and Wildlife Program, College of the North Atlantic

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Awards

• Canadian Forest Service – 2008 Departmental Merit Award for Collaboration and Partnership
• Canadian Boreal Initiative – 2008 National Boreal Award – Nominee
• Canadian Forest Service – 2007 Regional Merit Award – Atlantic Forest Centre

• Canadian Forest Service – 1994 Regional Merit Award – Maritime Region

 

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Current Research Projects

 

• Forest biodiversity resilience
– Conservation of Species of Concern in the Eastern Boreal e.g. the impact of forest harvesting and wildlife management practices on the Newfoundland pine marten
• Assess and understand forest productivity and dynamics in support of sustainable forest management

– Develop, in collaboration, an ecosystem-based management framework for the integrated land use of the Humber River Basin, Newfoundland

Education

• B.Sc. (1979), University of New Brunswick
• M.Sc. (1985), University of Wisconsin, Madison WI.

• Ph.D. (2007), University of Maine, Orono ME.

Affiliations

• Wildlife Society Member