Canadian Forest Service employee directory

Profile

• Joined the Canadian Forest Service in 2010

Research subject areas:

• Entomology

Responsibilities:

• Development and implementation of environmentally-sound pest management strategies for insect pests
• Identification and testing of semiochemicals

Areas of interest:

• Chemical ecology
• Sampling methodology
• Population dynamics of phytophagous insect pests
• Evolution of mating systems
• Life history of Lepidopteran species with flightless females

Current research projects:

• Integrated Pest Management
  • Jackpine budworm
  • Spruce budworm
  • Balsam gall midge

• Forest Alien Invasive Species
  • Brown spruce longhorn beetle

Research team:

• Peter Silk
• Jon Sweeney
• Rob Johns
• Gaetan LeClair
• Graham Thurston
• Eldon Eveleigh

Education

• B.A. with a focus in Archeology (1987), Université de Montréal à Montréal
• B.Sc. in Biology (1991),Université Laval
• Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (1999), Simon Fraser University

Research projects

• Dynamics of rising spruce budworm populations