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.
Good news
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New lab publication
Feb 2026
Congratulations to Megan Heft on her first publication. Megan showed that although male tree swallows increase their body temperature while feeding their nestlings, work rates are not limited by the male’s capacity to dissipate heat.
Read it here
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New lab publication
Jan 2026
Recent MSc graduate Kayla Martin published her first lab paper, showing that wild turkeys choose overnight roosts based on tree characteristics such as size, rather than a favourable microclimate. Kayla was co-supervised by Jeff Bowman.
Read it here
Photo credit: YS
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Student Award
Sept 2025
Congratulations to Taylor Brown on receiving the Student Award from the Animal Behaviour Society, for her publication on light attraction in Atlantic puffins
“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
Photo: Johanna Schroeder