Partners
We are
pleased to work with a range of partners to conduct our research,
film the results, produce web site information, and to provide boats
and equipment.
Supporters
Bird Studies
Canada
Centre for Wildlife Ecology, Simon Fraser University
Tamarin Productions
Inc.
Bluewater Adventures
CPAWS
Whale Trust
Sarah Haney
Jamie's Whaling Station
Remote Passages
EJ Gallo Wines
Associates
Ruth Foster
Ruth is a nationally
recognized environmental education specialist. In 2006 she won the
prestigious Canadian Environmental Award
Gold Medal for Environmental Learning.
Ruth spent three decades teaching high school students about nature.
She and PWLF Director Rod MacVicar established a stream
rehabilitation project that became a living classroom for thousands
of students. Today the creek is alive with salmon. Ruth played a key
role in establishing innovative courses in fisheries and wildlife
and many of her students have gone on to complete graduate degrees
in biology. Now retired from the school, Ruth continues to teach
through Simon Fraser University’s Department of Education and to
mentor students at the fish hatchery.
Iain
M. Jones
Iain is a Master of
Science candidate at Simon Fraser University under the supervision
of Drs. Butler and Ydenberg. He is researching behavioural
interactions between great blue herons and bald eagles. Iain holds
a diploma in Fish and Wildlife Management from the British Columbia
Institute of Technology and a Bachelors degree in Ecology from Simon
Fraser University. His past experience includes implementing field
studies and management activities for a variety of organizations
including Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Iain spent nearly a decade
working as a mate and naturalist on board the Island Roamer as it
sailed the remote coasts of the British Columbia and Alaska. He
brings to the PWLF a wealth of experience of the North Coast, its
wildlife and a host of logistical talent.
Sean Boyd
Sean Boyd has worked
with colleagues and graduate students on a variety of migratory bird
projects such as: the winter ecology and demographics of Snow Geese;
winter and migration ecology of Brant Geese; abundance and
distribution patterns of Trumpeter Swans; population demographics
and behavior of Harlequin Ducks; habitat interactions and natal
return rates of Barrow’s Goldeneye and Bufflehead; interaction
between shellfish aquaculture and wintering scoters; migration
ecology of Pacific scoters; migration ecology and abundance of Eared
Grebes; and at-sea foraging distributions of Cassin’s Auklets. Many
of his projects are long-term and involve radio-telemetry. Sean’s
research is necessarily multidisciplinary and international
in-scope. The objective is to provide scientific advice necessary to
conserve migratory bird populations and their habitats in North
America. Sean is a Research Scientist with the federal government of
Canada and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biological
Sciences at
Simon Fraser
University where he serves on graduate student committees at the
Centre for Wildlife Ecology.
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Holly Middleton
Holly is an
ornithologist who was born and raised in Metro Vancouver. She has
been a life-long naturalist. Holly holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from
Simon Fraser University. Her Master’s thesis researched
post-fledging behaviour and dispersal of the American dipper. She
also has experience in projects researching shorebirds and herons,
seabirds, grassland and cavity-nesting birds and freshwater birds.
Holly is collaborating with PWLF to analyze Bird Studies Canada’s
Coastal Waterbird Survey dataset to
examine the role of the return of Bald Eagle numbers on the apparent
decline in coastal seabird numbers. She is also working with Douglas
College and Simon Fraser University on a project examining the
effects of intensive agriculture on migratory birds on the Fraser
River delta.
Todd Golumbia
Todd has been the Park
Ecologist for Gulf Islands National Park Reserve in Canada since the
park was established in 2003. He is an ongoing collaborator with the
Pacific WildLife Foundation Black Oystercatcher Project. Todd
holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of
Saskatchewan and an Master of Science degree from the University of
British Columbia in Forest Ecology. He has worked at several
National Parks in western Canada as an Ecologist and a Park Warden
since 1982. The varied work as a Park Ecologist ranged across
disciplines of natural and social sciences and freshwater, marine
and terrestrial ecosystems. From 1993 to 2003, Todd worked as an
ecologist in Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage
Site in Canada.
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