Welcome! I am an evolutionary ecologist currently working as a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. I am also a Research Associate with the Canadian Museum of Nature. I study growth and life history in extant and extinct carnivorous mammals, and explore how life history contributed to extinctions in the past. I am an advocate for science communication and diversity and equity in science.
My research interests cover four broad areas:
Understanding the phylogeny, taxonomy, and ecology of a group of carnivorous mammals, Feliformia. This is the clade that includes cats and their closest relatives
Understanding how carnivorous mammals responded to past environmental change
Using ecological information to help us plan for current and future environmental change
Improving & understanding the limitations of the methods we use to determine ecology in the historical and fossil record
P.S. The wonderful Smilodon bust pictured on this page was made by Garfield Minott.