Ecologist, conservation biologist
Peterborough, Ontario
Joined April 2015
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Post-doctoral research opportunity at Trent University in the ecology and conservation of woodland #caribou. Annual salary of $80,000. Apply to [email protected] by September 5, 2025.
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Bridge that gap. Before you write that thesis or manuscript, make a mind map. It will save you time.
The decline of Gaspésie caribou appears to have accelerated. (The semi-logarithmic graph makes that clear.)
Since 2010, caribou numbers declined at more than 10% per year — in other words, abundance has been halved about every 6 years. This is a population in trouble.
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The resilience of nature — on living display just outside the venue of the #NACCB
Do you write to express or to impress?
Take “within”. Twice as many syllables as “in”, this word has become fashionable. But within my mind, the word is inappropriate within many phrases; it can even result within a change of meaning.
Choose to express — like Springsteen.
Jonas Salk posed the key question:
Are we being good ancestors?
drewmonkman.com/to-be-a-bett…
The plight of migratory species is a call to conservation action, to allow space for nature.
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