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Dr. Frances Stewart
Frances Stewart is an Adjunct 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 experiences that underpin her current research questions on wildlife and natural resource management. E: fstewart@wlu.ca MSc University of Guelph PhD University of Victoria PDF Natural Resources Canada |
Current members
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Dr. Matthew Dyson Postdoctoral researcher
Co-supervision: Dr. Jennifer Baltzer, Canada Research Chair Matt is interested in how wildlife move, use habitat, and survive. His research studies the consequences of anthropogenic land use change on habitat selection and survival. Matt has mostly studied ducks during his career but his postdoctoral research will investigate how existing models and data can be used to make predictions about caribou distribution and demography under various climate and land use change scenarios. When Matt is not thinking about ducks and science, he is either out for a hike or known to watch his fair share of sports, particularly the Jays, Leafs, and Steelers. E: matt.e.dyson@gmail.com W: https://mattedyson.weebly.com/ |
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Dr. Craig Simpkins Postdoctoral researcher
Co-supervision: Dr. Jennifer Baltzer, Canada Research Chair Craig is interested in the landscape level drivers of species and biodiversity distributions, with this interest embedded in a passion for conservation. The focus of his current research is the development of a resource selection model for Boreal caribou in the Ring of Fire area, northern Ontario. His primary role is to establish best practice standards for model implementation, ensuring reusability and transparency. These standards will be useful not only for this case but also for future implementations. E: simpkinscraig063@gmail.com |
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Charlotte Rentmeister Research technician
Charlotte is currently working with the Government of Northwest Territories conducting aerial survey work on the population and distribution of muskox in the Sahtú and Beaufort Delta regions. She will be assessing the current and historic distribution of muskox in mainland Northwest Territories using a combination of survey data, historic presence-only observations and telemetry data. She hopes to use these data to conduct a MSc with Dr. Stewart as of September 2021. In her free time, Charlotte loves to travel the world and hike mountains around her home in the Yukon. E: charlotte.rentmeister@gmail.com |