{"id":218,"date":"2009-10-13T13:03:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T17:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?page_id=218"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:14:12","slug":"ecology-evolution-and-conservation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/ecology-evolution-and-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecology, Evolution and Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/2026\/04\/Butterfly-Exhibit-2014-5-Staff-sized.jpg); background-position: 8% 32%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Ecology, Evolution and Conservation\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"biology-professors\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biology Professors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    <div class=\"grid gap-6 mx-auto my-6 cu-column md:gap-10 md:grid-cols-2 md:my-10 first:mt-0\">\n        \n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/joseph-bennett\/\">Dr. Joseph Bennett<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Conservation Biology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spatial Biology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=576]\">Dr. Susan Bertram<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Animal Behaviour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=598]\">Dr. Steven Cooke<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Aquatic Ecology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conservation Biology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Physiological Ecology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Animal Behaviour<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Environmental Science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/catherine-cullingham\/\">Dr. Catherine Cullingham<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Landscape, Population and Conservation Genetics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/roslyn-dakin\/\">Dr. Roslyn Dakin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Animal Behaviour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=604]\">Dr. Jeffrey Dawson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Neuroethology <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Biomechanics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=627]\">Dr. Lenore Fahrig<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Landscape Ecology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=634]\">Dr. Mark Forbes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Evolutionary Ecology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=649]\">Dr. Root Gorelick<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Evolution of Sex <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Evolutionary Theory<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Classical Botany<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mathematical Biology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Climate change<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/heath-macmillan\/\">Dr. Heath MacMillan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Animal Physiology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/https-viviannguyen18-wixsite-com-serac\/\">Dr. Vivian Nguyen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Environmental Change<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Natural Resources Management<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Conservation <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Food Security and Wellbeing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=665]\">Dr. Stewart Peck<\/a><em> &#8211; Professor Emeritus<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Arthropod and Beetle Evolution Systematics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=679]\">Dr. Tom Sherratt<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=684]\">Dr. Andrew Simons<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Plant Life-History Evolution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/dalal-hanna-2\/\">Dr. Dalal Hanna<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Landscape Ecology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Freshwater Ecology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conservation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=717]\">Dr. Jayne Yack<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Neuroethology <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bioacoustics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Insects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"teaching-stream-faculties\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching Stream Faculties<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: Teaching stream faculties can supervise undergraduate research<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    <div class=\"grid gap-6 mx-auto my-6 cu-column md:gap-10 md:grid-cols-2 md:my-10 first:mt-0\">\n        \n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/gregory-bulte\/\">Dr. Gr\u00e9gory Bult\u00e9&nbsp;<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Natural History<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Herpetology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/michael-runtz\/\">Michael Runtz<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Natural History<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/nigel-waltho\/\">Dr. Nigel Waltho<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Community Ecology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marine Biology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"adjuncts\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adjuncts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: Adjuncts are able to co-supervise undergraduate and graduate research<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    <div class=\"grid gap-6 mx-auto my-6 cu-column md:gap-10 md:grid-cols-2 md:my-10 first:mt-0\">\n        \n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/john-dettmers\/\">Dr. John Dettmers<\/a> <em>&#8211; Great Lakes Fishery Commission<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=823]\">Dr. Charles Francis<\/a> <em>&#8211; National Wildlife Research Centre<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Conservation Ecology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Population Ecology and Modelling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ornithology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Mammalogy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/danielle-fraser\/\">Dr. Danielle Fraser<\/a> &#8211;&nbsp;<em>Canadian Museum of Nature<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Paleoecology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Evolutionary Biology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"[culink page_id=827]\">Dr. Grant Gilchrist<\/a> <em>&#8211; National Wildlife Research Centre<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Behavioural Ecology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Arctic Ecology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Avian Ecology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/robert-letcher\/\">Dr. Robert Letcher<\/a> <em>&#8211; National Wildlife Research Centre<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Wildlife Toxicology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ecotoxicology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Environmental\/Ecological Chemistry of Chemical Stressors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/sara-martin\/\">Dr. Sara Martin<\/a> &#8211;&nbsp;<em>Agriculture &amp; 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