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Dr. Frances Stewart
Frances Stewart is a Canada Research Chair in Northern Wildlife Biology and Assistant Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her passion for wildlife biology began canoeing through Ontario's protected areas where she was able to watch moose, wolves, birds and reptiles. It was these early life experiences that underpin her current research questions on wildlife and natural resource management. E: fstewart@wlu.ca |
Current members
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Charlotte Rentmeister MSc Candidate (2021 -)
Born and raised in the Yukon Territory, Charlotte has always been passionate about northern wildlife and landscape ecology. Charlotte is analysing muskox survey data in mainland Northwest Territories to determine current muskox population density and distribution, while also identifying factors that contribute to muskox habitat selection. Her research is partially funded by the Government of Northwest Territories and she is a recent recipient of the 2022 Weston Family Award in Northern Research and POLAR Knowledge Northern Resident Scholarship. E: rent4353@mylaurier.ca |
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Sheyda Zand MES research project (2022)
Sheyda is doing her master's in environmental data analytics at Laurier. Her research project associated with this degree is to investigate landscape predictors of fisher (Pekania pennanti) home range size in central Alberta. Sheyda has an Masters in Environmental planning from the University of Tehran. Since its completion she has decided to start pursuing her true passion of wildlife biology and landscape ecology by joining the WILDlab. E: zand0020@mylaurier.ca |
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Eric Jolin MSc Candidate (2022 -)
Eric Jolin is using camera trap data to assess ungulate community response to landscape heterogeneity, and predator co-occurrences, within the newly established Thaidene Nëné Indigenous Protected Area, Northwest Territories. Recently awarded as the Wildlife Preservation Society's 2019 New Noah, Eric builds upon extensive research experience from the ungulate communities of the Pacific Northwest to the endemic reptiles of remote islands in the Indian Ocean. Aside from research, he enjoys exploring the backcountry of his Canadian home and has a passion for sustainable, conservation minded hunting. E: joli6810@mylaurier.ca |
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Valentin Lucet Research Assistant (2022 -)
Valentin is a landscape ecologist and R developer. He specializes in ecological modeling and research software engineering. He holds an M.Sc. in Biology from McGill University, during the course of which he gained extensive experience with land use change and connectivity models, and a wide range of tools (GIS software, HPC environments, participatory and reproducible research methods). In the WILDlab he is tacking big data issues inherent in camera trapping studies, and is our go-to source for all things reproducible. E: valentin.lucet@gmail.com |
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Claudia Haas PhD Student (2022 -)
After 16 years living and working as a protected areas biologist for the Government of the Northwest Territories, Claudia has long recognized the need and challenges to improving territory-wide baseline ecological information. Claudia's PhD builds off of a pan-territorial protected areas monitoring initiative. She aims to asses the full potential of non-invasive multi-species monitoring, while informing inclusive and meaningful decision-making for northern Indigenous peoples. She is our go-to source for all things protected areas and wears many hats on associated committees across Canada. E: claudia_haas@gov.nt.ca |
Alumni
Dr. Matthew Dyson. Postdoc 2021 | Research Scientist at Ducks Unlimited Canada | @DysonWildlife
Dr. Craig Simpkins. Postdoc 2020-2021 | Data Scientist at Quantiful Limited New Zealand | @connectiveCraig
Dr. Craig Simpkins. Postdoc 2020-2021 | Data Scientist at Quantiful Limited New Zealand | @connectiveCraig