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2021 research grants competition - results by peer review committee
| Applicant name | Institution | Program | Title | Term | Amount awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bauce, Éric Department Sciences du bois et de la forêt |
Université Laval | RGPIN | Feeding ecology of outbreak insect species | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Bayse, Shannon Department Fisheries and Marine Institute |
Memorial University of Newfoundland | RGPIN | Using quantitative behavioural approaches to develop sustainable fisheries | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Blanchet, Guillaume Department Biologie |
Université de Sherbrooke | RGPIN | Linking theory and data to advance knowledge on species distribution | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Brink, Kirstin Department Geological Sciences |
University of Manitoba | RGPIN | Evolution, Development, and Ecology of Biomineralized Tissues | 5 | $38,000.00 |
| Cadotte, Marc Department Scarborough College |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Enhancing the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning under multiple anthropogenic stressors | 5 | $55,000.00 |
| Chilton, Neil Department Biology |
University of Saskatchewan | RGPIN | Living on the edge: genetic variability and range dynamics of the American dog tick | 5 | $47,000.00 |
| Chritz, Kendra Department Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Novel geochemical methods for assessing trophic ecology in modern and ancient ecosystems | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Cimon-Morin, Jérôme Department foresterie, de géographie et de géomatique, Faculté de |
Université Laval | RGPIN | Développement d'approches pour favoriser la multifonctionnalité des paysages forestiers | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Clare, Elizabeth Department Biology |
York University | RGPIN | Factors which influence trophic metacommunities across landscape gradients | 5 | $38,000.00 |
| Crossin, Glenn Department Biology |
Dalhousie | RGPIN | Physiological response mechanisms underlying breeding phenology, breeding performance, and foraging activity of Canadian seabirds. | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Cuddington, Kim Department Biology |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | Transients, temperature and invasive species | 5 | $40,000.00 |
| Davies, Kimberley Department Biological Sciences (Saint John) |
New Brunswick | RGPIN | Climate-driven variation in the quantity, quality and availability of endangered baleen whale food | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Deslauriers, David Department Sciences de la mer de Rimouski, Institut des |
Université du Québec à Rimouski | RGPIN | Fish bioenergetics modelling to estimate the required carrying capacity of a system | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Detwiler, Jillian Department Biological Sciences |
University of Manitoba | RGPIN | Parasite-modified behaviour in freshwater systems: Context dependence and the ecological role of signaling molecules | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Eddy, Tyler Department Fisheries and Marine Institute |
Memorial University of Newfoundland | RGPIN | Developing ecosystem-based approaches to address fisheries and climate change impacts for Newfoundland & Labrador marine ecosystems | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Fahrig, Lenore Department Biology |
Carleton University | RGPIN | Disentangling the roles of mobility and propagule pressure in species responses to landscape structure | 5 | $65,000.00 |
| Fauteux, Dominique Department Biologie |
Université Laval | RGPIN | Rôle de la prédation dans les cycles de rongeurs arctiques : une approche multifonctionnelle | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Frederickson, Megan Department Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Ecology and evolution of plant-animal and host-microbe mutualisms | 5 | $65,000.00 |
| Fugère, Vincent Department Sciences de l'environnement |
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières | RGPIN | Thermal tolerance and the response of freshwater communities to multiple stressors | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Gagnon, Patrick Department Ocean Sciences Centre |
Memorial University of Newfoundland | RGPIN | Structuring mechanisms and transformative potential of cold marine benthic ecosystems | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Gao, Jin Department Fisheries and Marine Institute |
Memorial University of Newfoundland | RGPIN | Improving the sustainability of Northwest Atlantic fisheries via predictive modelling | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Garant, Dany Department Biologie |
Université de Sherbrooke | RGPIN | Impacts de la variabilité environnementale sur les processus évolutifs des populations animales | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Gilbert, Benjamin Department Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Species diversity, stability and loss | 5 | $55,000.00 |
| Gillung, Jessica Department Natural Resource Sciences |
McGill University | RGPIN | The enemy within: evolution and diversification of parasitoid flies | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Girard, Catherine Department Sciences fondamentales |
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi | RGPIN | Microorganismes de la cryosphère : relâche et dispersion d'une biodiversité unique | 5 | $38,000.00 |
| Goordial, Jacqueline Department Ontario Agricultural College |
University of Guelph | RGPIN | Microorganisms in a Changing Climate: community response and effect on biogeochemical cycling | 5 | $38,000.00 |
| Hart, Michael Department Biological Sciences |
Simon Fraser University | RGPIN | Evolution of gamete compatibility and reproductive isolation | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Hauert, Christoph Department Mathematics |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Evolving associations: cooperation and conflict within and between species | 5 | $40,000.00 |
| Hutchings, Jeffrey Department Biology |
Dalhousie | RGPIN | Individual and Population Responses to Environmental Change: Allee Effects, Phenotypic Plasticity, and Life History in Fishes | 5 | $78,000.00 |
| Jean, Mélanie Department Biologie |
Université de Moncton- | RGPIN | Structure and functions of bryophyte communities in temperate and boreal ecosystems | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Joy, Ruth Department Environment, Faculty of |
Simon Fraser University | RGPIN | Mitigating Commercial Vessel Impacts on Coastal Whales | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Juanes, Francis Department Biology |
University of Victoria | RGPIN | Deconstructing the ecology of aquatic soundscapes to mitigate the effects of noise pollution on marine species | 5 | $55,000.00 |
| Kalcounis-Rueppell, Matina Department Biological Sciences |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | The bioacoustics of wild bats and mice. | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Kidd, Karen Department Biology |
McMaster University | RGPIN | Effects of municipal wastewaters on aquatic-nearshore food webs | 5 | $55,000.00 |
| Kutz, Susan Department Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of |
University of Calgary | RGPIN | Advancing animal health knowledge, surveillance and prediction in the Arctic: the role of trace minerals in the health of Arctic ungulates | 5 | $40,000.00 |
| Laird, Robert Department Biological Sciences |
University of Lethbridge | RGPIN | Evolution of senescence in plants | 5 | $47,000.00 |
| Lapointe, François-Joseph Department Sciences biologiques |
Université de Montréal | RGPIN | Statistical analysis of microbiome longitudinal data with multiplex networks | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| LaRoche, Julie Department Biology |
Dalhousie | RGPIN | The impact of oceanic microbial communities on marine biogeochemistry now and in the future | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Lehman, Shawn Department Anthropology (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Spatial and functional components of diversity in tropical mammals | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Lehnert, Sarah Department Ocean Sciences Centre |
Memorial University of Newfoundland | RGPIN | Quantifying mechanisms of rapid adaptation to predict responses to climate change | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Léveillé-Bourret, Étienne Department Sciences biologiques |
Université de Montréal | RGPIN | Systematics, biogeography and evolution of northern floras | 5 | $38,000.00 |
| Little, Chelsea Department Environment, Faculty of |
Simon Fraser University | RGPIN | Ecosystem Function in Watershed Meta-Ecosystems | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Lotze, Heike Department Biology |
Dalhousie | RGPIN | Climate change impacts on Canada's Northwest Atlantic Ocean ecosystem: observations, projections, and implications | 5 | $40,000.00 |
| Maps, Frédéric Department Biologie |
Université Laval | RGPIN | From individual traits to the big picture: trait-based approaches to predict zooplankton fate in a rapidly changing Arctic Ocean | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Marchand, Philippe Department Institut de recherche sur les forêts (IRF) |
Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue | RGPIN | Bridging the gap from individual-based processes to joint species distributions in a forest landscape | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Markham, John Department Biological Sciences |
University of Manitoba | RGPIN | Ecosystem engineers in the subarctic | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| McGuire, Liam Department Biology |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | The role of heterothermy in the migration and overwintering strategies of bats and birds | 5 | $38,000.00 |
| McIntosh, Anne Department Augustana Campus |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | Recovery Across a Gradient of Disturbance Novelties: Patterns and Drivers of Understory Plant Community Dynamics in Northern Lodgepole Pine Forests | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Metaxas, Anna Department Oceanography |
Dalhousie | RGPIN | Linking ecological connectivity to population resilience in a marine system | 5 | $65,000.00 |
| Miyashita, Tetsuto Department Biology |
University of Ottawa | RGPIN | An Integrative Approach to the Evolutionary Assembly of Vertebrate Body Plans | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Montwé, David Department Forest Resources Management |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Resilience of western Canadian forests to climatic extremes | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Morrissey, Christy Department Biology |
University of Saskatchewan | RGPIN | Detecting Cryptic Exposure and Effects of Neurotoxic Insecticides to Migratory Birds | 5 | $55,000.00 |
| Murray, Alison Department Anthropology |
University of Victoria | RGPIN | Experimental approaches to understanding the evolution of human phenotypic diversity | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Noonan, Michael Department Okanagan |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Statistically efficient integration of animal tracking data into ecological theory and evidence-based conservation | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Osmond, Matthew Department Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Models to infer evolution in declining populations and across space | 5 | $38,000.00 |
| Owens, Gregory Department Biology |
University of Victoria | RGPIN | Why so mixed up? Exploring the history and adaptive significance of pervasive large chromosomal inversions in sunflowers. | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Parfrey, Laura Department Botany |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Testing the role of microbial distribution and functional traits in the ecology and evolution of symbiosis | 5 | $40,000.00 |
| Poisot, Timothée Department Sciences biologiques |
Université de Montréal | RGPIN | The many paths to ecological network inference: reconciling machine learning, empirical data, and ecological knowledge | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Raby, Graham Department Biology |
Trent University | RGPIN | The causes and consequences of sex differences and body size variation in fish | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Raine, Nigel Department Environmental Sciences, School of |
University of Guelph | RGPIN | Tracking pollinator movements and resource use in response to environmental stressors at a landscape scale | 5 | $40,000.00 |
| Rundle, Howard Department Biology |
University of Ottawa | RGPIN | Sexual selection, conflict and isolation: experimental insight into the population genetic consequences of mate competition and the origin of species | 5 | $78,000.00 |
| Schluter, Dolph Department Zoology |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Evolution of species interactions in adaptive radiation | 5 | $95,000.00 |
| Schott, Ryan Department Biology |
York University | RGPIN | Molecular Evolution of Vertebrate Visual Systems | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Shackelford, Nancy Department Environmental Studies, School of |
University of Victoria | RGPIN | Using restoration to test community assembly in a heavily invaded ecosystem | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Simons, Andrew Department Biology |
Carleton University | RGPIN | The evolutionary consequences of environmental uncertainty | 5 | $40,000.00 |
| Springer, Stevan Department Biology |
University of Prince Edward Island | RGPIN | Adaptation by improbable changes can identify the phenotypic targets of selection | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Thiemann, Gregory Department Environmental Studies, Faculty of |
York University | RGPIN | Drivers and consequences of individual specialization in an Arctic marine top predator | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Turgeon, Katrine Department Sciences naturelles |
Université du Québec en Outaouais | RGPIN | Transient biodiversity and food web responses in regulated aquatic ecosystems | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Vanderwel, Mark Department Biology |
University of Regina | RGPIN | Climate sensitivity of regional carbon stocks in Canada's western boreal forest | 5 | $40,000.00 |
| Waterman, Jane Department Biological Sciences |
University of Manitoba | RGPIN | Sociality and reproductive tactics in ground-dwelling squirrels: cooperation, tolerance and reproductive skew | 5 | $33,000.00 |
| Whidden, Christopher Department Computer Science, Faculty of |
Dalhousie | RGPIN | Advancing algorithm design for phylogenetic inference using agreement forests and graph exploration | 5 | $28,000.00 |
| Wilson, Scott Department Forest and Conservation Sciences |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Spatial and temporal variation in the response of migratory species to anthropogenic land use | 5 | $24,900.00 |
| Young, Andrew Department Ontario Agricultural College |
University of Guelph | RGPIN | Flower visitation on two wings: the impact of Diptera as pollinators | 5 | $28,000.00 |