Exploring interactions between animals and their environments

Photo: Raul Suarez

About the lab

Our research falls within the fields of ecological, evolutionary, and conservation physiology. We combine field and laboratory studies to understand how birds, mammals and fish respond to environmental stressors.

Latest news

  • Successful PhD conversion exam

    Feb 2025

    Congratulations to Emma Byers, who successfully passed her conversion exam, allowing her to transfer from the MSc to PhD program

  • Successful MSc defence

    Nov 2024

    Congratulations to Kayla Martin, on the successful defence of her MSc thesis on factors affecting survival in wild turkey

  • Graduate student scholarship

    April 2024

    Congratulations to MSc student Emma Byers on being awarded on Ontario Graduate Scholarship for her work on butterflies!

For such a large number of problems there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied.”

— August Krogh, 1929

Why our work matters

We provide scientists and managers with rigorous physiological data on the limits to organismal performance, and on the role of phenotypic plasticity as a mechanism to permit population persistence in response to rapid environmental change

Join the lab!

Interested in animal ecological, evolutionary, or conservation physiology?

We welcome inquires for prospective undergraduate and graduate students, as well as post-doctoral fellows

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