I am looking for lab members who are motivated, creative and hard working. I am especially interested in students who are enthusiastic about testing fundamental questions in ecology using experimental, sampling or modeling approaches. My research addresses the importance of basic ecological processes in structuring communities, such as competition, predation, dispersal, and responses to environmental heterogeneity. To understand the relative importance of different processes in structuring communities, I design field and greenhouse experiments and also study landscapes that have been affected by ‘natural experiments’, such as habitat fragmentation and species invasions.

As a member of my lab you would be part of an active and growing research group. In addition to meetings and activities within the lab, you would be part of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) at the University of Toronto, which provides exceptional opportunities for developing research skills in the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology.

If you are interested in joining my lab as a graduate student, you should send me a CV, an unofficial transcript, and a brief letter that describes your research interests and experience. You should also visit the EEB website for application details. Graduate students should apply for personal funding from NSERC (Canadian students), NSF (American students), or Canadian and international funding sources (international students). Additional funding sources can be found on the EEB website.

Post-doctoral researchers should contact me to discuss their research ideas and potential sources of funding. I will help to develop post-doctoral applications for the EEB internal competition, NSERC, NSF, or other funding agencies.

If you are an undergraduate student interested in gaining research experience, I have a number of opportunities in my lab for undergraduate research projects. Students who want to take part in ongoing research should contact me at any time during the school year. If you are interested in a summer position as an undergraduate field ecologist or undergraduate lab ecologist, the best time to contact me is December or early January for work in the following summer.