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Office: BS CW-217A 
Phone: 780-492-3702
Email: batallas@ualberta.ca

Assistant Teaching Professor

Dr. Emily Bamforth

Museum Curator, Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum
curator@dinomuseum.ca; ebamfort@ualberta.ca

Research Focus: Fossil ecosystems of northwest Alberta; dinosaur bonebed taphonomy; Cretaceous paleoecology; paleobotany; using fossil plants to reconstruct paleoclimate and paleoenvironment using climate-leaf analysis (CLAMP); paleobiodiversity analyses using microvertebrate fossils, mass extinction; Early Life/ Ediacaran fossils.

Emeritus Researcher at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology
don.brinkman@gov.ab.ca

Research Focus: Turtles and fish from the Cretaceous and Paleocene of North America, with special emphasis on biogeographic patterns and the effect of climate change on distribution patterns during this time.

Curator, Dinosaur Systematics and Evolution, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology 
caleb.brown@gov.ab.ca; cmbrown4@ualberta.ca 

Research Focus: Vertebrate palaeobiology specializing in the diversity, taxonomy, and systematics of ornithischian dinosaurs; growth, variation, function, & evolution of cranial ornamentation and implications for sociosexual selection; taphonomic and collection biases and implications for palaeoecology/biodiversity; palaeopathology and feeding traces and implications for ancient behaviour.

Research Scientist in Entomology, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa, ON
erin.campbell@inspection.gc.ca; eocampbe@ualberta.ca

Research Focus: Entomology, molecular ecology, phylogenetics, adaptation, species delimitation, speciation, invasion genomics, conservation genomics.

Assistant Professor of Biophysics, Department of Physics, º£½ÇÉçÇø
dcharleb@ualberta.ca


Research Focus: Our research focuses on combining physics and biology to make fundamental advances in the areas of gene regulatory networks, bioelectromagnetics, and antimicrobial resistance. We develop quantitative mathematical/computational models, train machine learning models, and perform experiments on genetically engineered and pathogenic yeast strains.

Aquatic Scientist, Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, Government of Alberta
craig.emmerton@gov.ab.ca, emmerton@ualberta.ca

Research Focus: Using multi-disciplinary approaches (e.g., hydrology, biogeochemistry, terrestrial ecology) to understand the cycling of water, carbon, nutrients and contaminants in freshwater catchments and how these processes respond to human stressors.

Campus Alberta Innovates Program Research Chair, Athabasca University
cglover@athabascau.ca

Research Focus: Aquatic toxicology (metals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and other emerging organic contaminants), environmental physiology of fish and invertebrates, epithelial transport of nutrients, ions and toxicants, hagfish biology, biological roles of dissolved organic matter, marine biology.

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University/Chief Scientist and Executive Director, Canadian High Arctic Research Station, Cambridge Bay, NU/Vice-President (Research), Polar Knowledge Canada
dhik@sfu.ca

Research Focus: Mountain and Arctic ecology; plant-animal interactions; herbivory; resilience; climate change.

Statistical Ecologist, Boreal Avian Monitoring Project/Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI), º£½ÇÉçÇø
ecknight@ualberta.ca
Research Focus: Monitoring and conservation of biodiversity across the annual  cycle through integration of large datasets, with particular focus on acoustic  monitoring of birds.

Technical Specialist, Limnology, Associated Environmental Consultants Inc.
kosterd@ae.ca; koster@ualberta.ca
Research Focus: Lake management, lake nutrient dynamics, impacts of human activities on freshwater quality, benthic algae and phytoplankton community ecology, benthic algae as bio-indicators for water quality, paleolimnology.

Science Advisor Ecosystems, Department of Conservation, New Zealand
lagrue@ualberta.ca; clagrue@doc.govt.nz

Research Focus: Parasitology, Freshwater Ecology, Ecosystem Conservation, Wildlife Diseases and Parasites.

Wildlife Biologist/Boreal Landbird Biologist, Wildlife and Habitat Assessment, Northern Region, Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada
lisa.mahon@ec.gc.ca

Research Focus: Conservation and management of terrestrial landbirds in northern boreal ecosystems with a focus on: monitoring and documenting the status of populations in boreal and high elevation systems; assessing distribution shifts across elevational gradients; identifying shifts in seasonal phenology and habitat/resource use in high elevation systems during breeding and post-breeding periods; assessing and quantifying climate change adaptation; identifying regional boreal refugia; designing and modelling regional cumulative effects assessments; and developing and applying bioacoustic tools to improve the reliability and accuracy of population metrics (distribution, abundance, trend).

Wildlife Research Scientist, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada
eneilson@ualberta.ca; eric.w.neilson@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca

Research Focus: Woodland caribou recovery research. My colleagues and I investigate the distribution of woodland caribou habitat as it relates to natural disturbance and climate, and the vulnerability of caribou recovery actions to climate hazards such as wildfire and forest pests.

Dr. Margo Pybus

Fish and Wildlife Division of Environment and Parks, Government of Alberta
margo.pybus@gov.ab.ca

Research Focus: Wildlife parasites and diseases: ecology, conservation, and appropriate management.

Dr. Corey Scobie

Assistant Curator of Ornithology, Royal Alberta Museum
corey.scobie@gov.ab.ca; cscobie@ualberta.ca

Research Focus: Influence of human development on resource selection; soundscape ecology; species at risk conservation; grouse lek occupancy; ecology of cavity nesting birds; avian conservation using museum collections; museum specimen preparation and preservation; avian hybrid zones and communities.

E Source
solymos@ualberta.ca

Research Focus: Developing efficient methods and algorithms for big data and complex models, and applying these techniques to better inform large-scale conservation and management of biodiversity.

Wildlife Biologist, Canadian Wildlife Service
judith.toms@ec.gc.ca


Research Focus: Understanding and managing the cumulative effects of multiple resource sectors on birds; landbird ecology in boreal and tropical ecosystems; population and community ecology; full life-cycle ecology; and the application of statistics to complex ecological questions. 

Species At Risk Biologist with the Canadian Wildlife Service of Environment Canada
tiw@ualberta.ca

Research Focus: Ecology of birds of prey, burrowing owl and ferruginous hawk conservation, habitat use by grassland birds, methods for defining critical habitat, foraging behaviour, avian reproduction, food limitation, species at risk population recovery.