On April 17th, Sam presented her Honours Thesis at the Biology Honours Symposium, which was a full day of presentations from the undergraduate Biology Honours students at McGill. She will be graduating this summer.
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Since COP15 in Montreal, new partnerships are being formed worldwide to support the action needed to achieve the goals of the Global Biodiversity Framework. While technology has made it easier to communicate with others across the globe, there is no substitute for face-to-face interactions.
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Last Monday, Professor Andrew Gonzalez gave a talk at the AI for Good Summit about the role of Artificial Intelligence in monitoring biodiversity change. He proposed the implementation of a framework to guide detection and attribution analyses, where Artificial intelligence can play a strong role.
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In this episode “La forêt urbaine” (The urban forest), Professor Gonzalez explains how his work aims to create ecological networks to connect the wooded areas, parks and green spaces of the greater urban community of Montreal to benefit biodiversity.
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Flavio’s PhD work focuses on monitoring how the interaction between nature and society is changing. His work is aimed at multiple stakeholders from academics, to the government and First Nations people.
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Transferring findings from ecological studies to conservation practices is an attractive challenge to me. Therefore, I come to work with Andy Gonzalez and Laura Pollock as a postdoc, aiming to develop and apply biodiversity models and indicators to support conservation decisions and planning for Canada’s protected area network.
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I joined the Gonzalez lab, as I got a post-doc position in the ResNet project, that is partly supervised by Elena Bennett and partly by Andy Gonzalez – which fantastically complements each other.
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As a postdoc in the Gonzalez Lab, Chuliang worked to forecast the dynamics of ecological systems under under incomplete information about the entire system. Chuliang is currently a postdoc at Princeton University where he will work on eco-evolutionary dynamics.
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By bringing different communities together and creating collaborations between researchers and stakeholders, we can translate science into action and create better urban environements for everyone - from the smallest organism to us humans.
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As delegates are negotiating the Global Biodiversity Framework at the COP15 in Montreal, it is becoming more and more urgent to develop a monitoring framework that proposes a suite of indicators by which the Parties can measure progress toward both national and global targets.
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Just before the start of COP15 here in Montreal, Radio Canada published an entire episode focused on this event on their channel Découverte. This episode includes different perspectives on the current negotiations, the state of biodiversity, and how to preserve it.
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Andy met with the Minister of Forests, Wildlife and Parks (MFFP) of the Quebec government. They discussed the state of Québec's biodiversity in a forthright and wide-ranging conversation.
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Celina will soon start a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto where she will continue to conduct her research on organismal movement
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The Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science (QCBS) won the bid to host GEO BON, in partnership with the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Natures et Technologies, Montréal International, McGill University, Université de Montréal and Université de Shebrooke.
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