Evolutionary Ecology

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Associate Professor, McGill University, Redpath Museum and Department of Biology (2007-present)

EDUCATION:
• PhD 1998, School of Fisheries, University of Washington, WA
• MS 1995, School of Fisheries, University of Washington, WA
• BS 1991, Department of Biology, University of Victoria, BC

AWARDS:
• EWR Steacie Fellowship, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), 2009-2011
• JC Stevenson Memorial Lecture, Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research, 2008
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Discovery
Accelerator Supplement, 2007
• American Society of Naturalists, Young Investigator Prize, 2001
• Darwin Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1999

MEMBERSHIPS:
• Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
• Society for the Study of Evolution
• American Society of Naturalists
• Ecological Society of America, American Fisheries Society

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Eco-evolutionary dynamics broadly considers ongoing interactions between ecology and evolution. Most work in our lab has thus far focused on one direction of causality in these dynamics – how ecological changes influence evolutionary dynamics (eco-to-evo). More recently, we have started to explore the reciprocal arrow of causality: how evolutionary changes influence ecological dynamics (evo-to-eco). We conduct work on both arrows of causality in multiple natural systems, most frequently in lake versus stream stickleback, high-predation versus low-predation guppies, and Darwin’s finches.