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Summer 2022
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We're sharing a new opinion paper lead by friends and colleagues at Carleton University. This article will make for excellent discussion in the field, office, and the next meeting of EEB Conservation Science: Cooke SJ, Michaels S, Nyboer EA, Schiller L, Littlechild DBR, Hanna DEL, et al. (2022) Reconceptualizing conservation. PLOS Sustain Transform 1(5): e0000016. |
Winter 2021
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[Press] Interactive storymap about the history of endangered species legislation and the role of NatureServe in providing the scientific basis for effective conservation action in North America:
"America's most endangered species" [Press] The Fall 2020-Winter 2021 issue of EEB Quarterly is live (here)! Highlights of this issue include an article about the virtual grad student life amid COVID, latest departmental research publications, a STEM x social justice reading list, and, of course, the terrific art and photography! |
Summer 2019
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[Publication] Patrick Moldowan (Ph.D. Candidate in EBB), Njal Rollinson (EEB Asst. Professor), and colleagues publish findings about salamander-eating carnivorous plants in the journal Ecology. International news coverage is swift, including this great piece by National Geographic!
[Press] The Spring 2019 issue of EEB Quarterly is live (here)! The graduate students of EEB have outdone themselves again with a superb review of departmental activities and articles on Toronto living, study organisms, notes from the field, and plenty of artistic creativity!
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Fall 2018
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Meetings have resumed for the academic year! We look forward to your participation at 12:00(*sharp*) - 13:00 on the last Tuesday of the month. Please see our "Upcoming Events" tab for a full outline of meetings.
[Press] Students in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology have produced the inaugural issue of EEB Quarterly. This very well-illustrated newsletter features graduate student perspectives, methods in EEB and organism profiles. Each newsletter is available for download here. |
Winter 2017-2018
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We're now on Twitter @eebconservation! Follow us for communications about conservation science from the University of Toronto's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department and beyond. We will be rotating our Twitter contributors each month!
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Fall 2017
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[Press] "Bycatch 'key driver' in NZ sea lion decline" presents coverage of the threat posed by commercial fishing to the endangered New Zealand Sea Lion based on research by Martin Krkosek and colleagues (October 2017)
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[Press] "Imperiled treature: A coral reef called Varadero" is an engaging account about an enigmatic coral reef, by EEB post-doctoral researcher Emily Darling and colleagues (October 2017)
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[Press] "More elusive than a jaguar ..." and the Greater Grison - highlights of camera trapping research by EEB PhD student Juan Sebastian Vargas and supervisor Peter Molnar on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica (August and September 2017)
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[Video] Spring episode of Wild Canadian Year documentary series airs, featuring collaboration with departmental PhD student Patrick Moldowan and the Algonquin Wildlife Research Station. While you're here, check out this clip of Patrick's field research site in Algonquin "coming alive at night"! (September 2017)
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[Publication] "Opinion: Why we need an international agreement on marine plastic pollution" by Chelsea Rochmann and colleagues, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (September 2017)
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[Press] "Microplastic sampling in the Great White North" featuring a field research account by graduate student Clara Thaysen from the Rochmann Lab (September 2017)
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Summer 2017
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[Award] Congratulations! PhD student Patrick Moldowan delivered a keynote presentation and was awarded Best Paper at the 15th Annual Symposium on the Conservation and Biology of Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles.
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[Video] "Some of the longest running wildlife studies in North America can be found here" featuring an interview by PhD student Patrick Moldowan about long-term wildlife research at the Algonquin Wildlife Research Station (August 2017)
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Spring 2017
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[Publication] “Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally” by postdoctoral researcher Emily Darling and colleagues, published in the journal Nature (March 2017)
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[Media] “Efforts to protect marine protected ecosystems thwarted by lack of funding staff: UofT part of international study” featuring Emily Darling, a postdoctoral researcher in EEB (April 2017)
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Winter 2016-2017
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[Press] "Microplastics found in supermarket fish, shellfish" featuring an interview with Chelsea Rochmann
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Fall 2016
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[Press] "Plastics: this U of T ecologist is working to save the world's oceans and lakes from garbage" profiling Chelsea Rochmann's exceptional research (October 2016)
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[Press] "A nation of Noahs", highlighting conservation opportunities in Canada and PhD student Patrick Moldowan's 2015 award of the Canada's New Noah Scholarship
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[Press] "Since I was a child, I've wanted to save the world", a personal and research profile of Martin Krkosek (September 2016)
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