Conservation Science and Practice Faculty

  • Erin Baerwald
    MSc and PhD University of Calgary
    • Assistant Professor
    Phone: 250-960-5664
    Office Number: 8-206

    Areas of expertise: Animal behaviour, bat biology, conservation biology, ecology, migration biology

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  • Lauren Harding
    PhD, Anthropology (UBC), MA, Social Anthropology (York University), BA (University of Alberta)
    • Assistant Professor
    Phone: 250-960-5885
    Office Number: 8-244

    Areas of expertise: Environmental anthropology, anthropology of tourism, settler-colonial studies, human-wildlife conflict, ethnographic methods, multi-species ethnography, social anthropology, critical tourism studies, human-wildlife relations, political ecology.

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  • Chris Johnson
    BSc University of Victoria, PhD University of Northern BC
    • Professor, Landscape Conservation and Management
    Phone: 250-960-5357
    Office Number: 8-330

    Areas of expertise: caribou, conservation, cumulative impacts, ecological thresholds, endangered species

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  • Philip Mullins
    PhD, MA, BA, HBOR
    • Associate Professor, Wildland Conservation and Recreation
    Phone: 250-960-5509
    Office Number: 8-244

    Areas of expertise: Outdoor recreation, outdoor education, adventure education, adventure, expeditions, wilderness, travel, tourism, skill, environmental ethics, recreation management, experiential education, experiential learning, mobilities, phenomenology, hermeneutics, qualitative research methodologies.

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  • Dr. Ken Otter
    PhD, MSc (Queen's University), BSc (University of British Columbia)
    • Professor
    • Chair, Ecosystem Science and Management
    • Co-Chair, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    Phone: 250-960-5019
    Office Number: 8-341

    Areas of expertise: Animal communication, reproductive strategies, behavioural ecology, avian ecology, urban & disturbance ecology

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  • PhD University of Queensland, Australia
    • Professor, Landscape Conservation and Management
    • FRBC West Fraser Conservation Solutions Research Chair
    Phone: 250-960-0134
    Office Number: 8-334

    Areas of expertise: Conservation Science and Practice

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  • Jennifer Wigglesworth
    PhD (Queen's University), MA (University of Ottawa), BSc (University of Ottawa)
    • Assistant Professor
    Phone: 613-888-2375

    Areas of expertise: Outdoor recreation, outdoor sport, gender, place names, sociocultural studies, settler colonialism, nature-based tourism, rock climbing, adventure, experiential learning, intersectional feminism, qualitative research methodologies, embodiment, sex-integrated sport

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