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I am a biologist interested in causes and consequences of variation in behaviour, energetics, and genetics within individuals and within populations. I am primarily an evolutionary & behavioural ecologist, with experience in physiology, quantitative genetics, and molecular genetics.

Current Positions: I’m part of the editorial team at Canadian Science Publishing working full-time as a Journal Development Specialist for the Canadian Journal of Zoology and Canadian Journal of Forest Research.

I am a co-founder of Support Our Science, and now serve on its Board of Directors.

I serve on the advisory committee for CSEE’s Section for Long-Term Research and the Systematic Collections Committee of the American Society of Mammalogists.

Current Research Interests:
I recently defended my PhD studying variation in resource acquisition – namely, food-caching in North American red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus). I explored relationships among life history, physiology, and ecology to better understand the range of caching success we observe and to give us insight into the evolution of behaviour.

I am also interested in the evolution and maintenance of sex ratios in vertebrates, long-term ecological research (particularly as graduate student training arenas), and the role of behaviour in eco-evolutionary dynamics. Previously, my research focused on studying patterns of genomic copy number variation using SNP microarrays.