Canadian Forest Service employee directory
Jon Sweeney
Research Scientist
Atlantic Forestry Centre
1350 Regent Street, P.O. Box 4000
Fredericton,
New Brunswick,
E3B 5P7
Tel.: (506) 452-3499
Profile
- Joined the Canadian Forest Service in 1989
Areas of Interest:
- Applied ecology and management of invasive forest insects
- Insect chemical ecology
- Plant-insect interactions
- Species diversity of ground beetles
- Seed and cone insects
Committees:
- Associate Editor, The Canadian Entomologist
- Chair, Science Sub-committee, Brown Spruce Longhorn Beetle Task Force
- Asian Longhorned Beetle Science Sub-committee
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency-Canadian Forest Service Invasive Alien Species Surveillance Scientific and Technical Committee
Current Graduate Student Advisory Committees:
- Co-Supervisor, Leah Flaherty, Ph.D. Candidate, University of New Brunswick: Population ecology of the brown spruce longhorn beetle
- Advisory Committee, Ryan Jennings, M.Sc. Candidate, Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick
Awards
- Natural Resources Canada Departmental and Canadian Forest Service Merit Awards for Outstanding Contribution addressing Alien Forest Species through Collaboration and Science (2008)
- Fredericton Meeting Planners’ Recognition Award, as Chair of the Organizing Committee of the Joint Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Canada and Acadian Entomological Society (1996)
Current Research Projects
- Forest Alien Invasive Species
– Biology and management of the brown spruce longhorn beetle (BSLB): risk mitigation, semiochemistry and pheromone-based methods of population suppression; flight behavior and dispersal, role of tree condition and natural enemies on BSLB populations. – Semiochemicals and traps for enhanced surveillance of invasive wood boring beetles
Education
- B.Sc. Honours (1979), Simon Fraser University
- Ph.D. (1987), University of British Columbia
Affiliations
- Entomological Society of Canada
- Entomological Society of America
- Entomological Society of British Columbia
- Acadian Entomological Society
- Adjunct Professor, University of New Brunswick (since 1999)