FORTIN LAB:. Species persistence, dispersal, and range dynamics

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News

Prospective Students

  • I am not taking graduate students anymore.

2021

  • Congratulations to Nikol Dimitrov on completing her Master’s degree!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Tianna Peller!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Samantha Andrews!
  • Welcome to the lab as a Master’s student: Ben Zdasiuk.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Korryn Bodner!
  • Congratulations to Korryn Bodner and Carina Firkowski on their Ecosphere paper.
  • Congratulations to Carina Firkowski on her Facets paper.
  • Congratulations to Carina Firkowski on her Ecological Monographs paper.
  • Marie-Josée Fortin received the University of Toronto’s 2021 J.J. Berry Smith Doctoral Supervision Award.
  • Congratulations to Amanda Xuereb on her Conservation Biology paper.
  • Congratulations to Chris Blackford on his Marine Biology paper.
  • Welcome to the lab as postdoctoral fellows: Dr. Amanda Schwantes and Dr. Celina Baines.
  • Congratulations to Chris Brimacombe on his Ecography paper.
  • Congratulations to Eliza Deutsch on her Remote Sensing paper.

2020

  • Congratulations to Katherine Ziebarth on completing her Master’s degree!
  • Congratulations to Chris Brimacombe and Korryn Bodner on their Ecography paper.
  • Welcome to the Fortin Lab:
    • Carina Firkowski (PDF)
    • Chuliang Song (PDF)
    • Peter Rodriguez (PhD)
    • Jack Goldman (PhD)
    • Nikol Dimitrov (Master’s)
  • Congratulations to Dr. Marie-Hélène Brice!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Carina Rauen Firkowski!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Ridouan Bani!
  • Marie-Josée Fortin received the prestigious University Professor designation.

2019

  • Welcome Christopher Brimacombe (new PhD student).
  • Congratulations to Russell Turner (MSc, 2019).
  • Congratulations to Samantha Morin (MSc, 2019).
  • Congratulations to S. MacFarlane (MSc, 2019).

2018

  • Welcome Louis Donnelle (new PhD student).
  • Welcome Katherine Ziebarth (new MSc student; co-advised with Njal Rollison).
  • Welcome Dr. Chin (MITACS-TRCA PDF, 2018).
  • Welcome Dr. Andrello (Research Associate, 2018).
  • Welcome Dr. Cassidy D’Aloia (PDF, 2018).
  • Welcome Jun-Long Huang (Visiting PhD, 2018-2019).
  • Congratulations to Dr. Xuereb.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Chin.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Aquilué.
  • Congratulations to Christopher Blackford (MSc, 2018).
  • Congratulations to Lindsey Bargelt (MSc, 2018).

2017

  • Marie-Josée Fortin delivered the 2017 Kolshorn Keynote Lecture at the University of Minnesota.
  • Welcome Ariel Greiner as a PhD student in the Martin Krkosek and Marie-Josée Fortin labs.
  • Congratulations to Marie-Hélène Brice for receiving the Best Oral Presentation Award at Écovég13: Congrès International Francophone en Écologie Végétale.
  • Congratulations to Marie-Hélène Brice for receiving the Governor General’s Gold Medal.
  • Congratulations to Russell Turner for winning first place in the poster presentation category at the Ontario Ecology, Ethology and Evolution Colloquium (Queen’s University).
  • Marie-Josée Fortin was a WSL Visiting Fellow in Zurich, Switzerland, for five months.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Emily Darling on receiving the 2017 CSEE Early Career Award.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Colin Daniel!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Alexandre Martensen!
  • Marie-Josée Fortin was a plenary speaker at the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science Symposium (McGill University, Montreal).
  • Marie-Josée Fortin was awarded a Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier 1 in Spatial Ecology.
  • Marie-Josée Fortin was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC).
  • A CIEE-funded working group on Protected Areas, led by Cassidy D’Aloia, Ilona Naujokaitis-Lewis, and Marie-Josée Fortin, held its second meeting at the University of Toronto.
  • Welcome Stephen MacFarlane as a new PhD student.

2016

  • Marie-Josée Fortin became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
  • A CIEE-funded working group on Protected Areas held its second meeting at the University of Toronto (December 5-7, 2016).
  • Welcome Stephen MacFarlane as a new student.
  • Emily Darling began an NSERC Banting Fellowship in the Martin Krkosek and Marie-Josée Fortin labs.
  • Marie-Josée Fortin was a plenary speaker at the International Statistical Ecology Conference (Seattle, 2016).
  • A CIEE-funded Protected Areas workshop was held at the University of Toronto (May 30-June 1, 2016).
  • Congratulations to Carina Firkowski on her paper in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
  • Congratulations to Julia Linke on her appointment as Science Coordinator of ABBY-NET.
  • Congratulations to Georgina O’Farrill on her position as Senior Project Coordinator at the Commission for Environmental Cooperation.
  • Congratulations to Jackie Awad on completing her Master’s degree.
  • Welcome Dr. Luke Frishkoff as a postdoctoral fellow.
  • Welcome Korryn Bodner as a new PhD student.

2015

  • Welcome Dr. Anna Torné Noguera as a visiting postdoctoral fellow.
  • Welcome Flavia Santana as a visiting PhD student.
  • Welcome Dr. Cassidy D’Aloia as a postdoctoral fellow.
  • Welcome Carina Firkowski as a new PhD student.
  • Welcome Christopher Blackford as a new Master’s student.
  • Congratulations to Alex Watts on his position at Bluedot.
  • Congratulations to Aaron Hall on his position as an aquatic ecologist.
  • Ilona Naujokaitis-Lewis published in Global Change Biology.
  • Congratulations to Ilona Naujokaitis-Lewis on her position at Environment Canada.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Alexander Watts!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Lanna Jin!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Hall!
  • Amanda Xuereb completed an internship in Dr. Manel’s lab.
  • Marie-Josée Fortin received the 2015 IALE Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievements.
  • Lanna Jin published in the Journal of Ecology.
  • Amanda Xuereb had a paper accepted.
  • Andrew Chin had a paper accepted.
  • Alex Watts published papers in EcoHealth and Frontiers in Genetics.
  • The paper by Safner et al. (2011) received the International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2015 Best Research Paper Award.

2014

  • Andrew Chin received BIO120’s Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Ilona Naujokaitis-Lewis!
  • Congratulations to Alexandre Martensen on publishing in Science.
  • Marie-Josée Fortin was named among Thomson Reuters’ 2014 Highly Cited Researchers.
  • Congratulations to Ilona Naujokaitis-Lewis on publishing in Ecology Letters.
  • Amanda Xuereb received an NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship-Doctoral (PGS-D).
  • Aaron Hall received BIO120’s Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

2013

  • Ilona Naujokaitis-Lewis published in Ecology Letters.
  • Dr. Jonathan Ruppert was interviewed on CBC Radio’s Quirks & Quarks regarding his PLOS ONE paper.
  • Alexander Watts received the Queen Elizabeth II SSGT Scholarship.
  • Colin Daniel received an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-D).
  • Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Ruppert!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Terrail!
  • Marie-Josée Fortin received the 2013 Distinguished Landscape Ecologist Award from the US-IALE.
  • Christopher Blackford received a Forest Complexity Modeling undergraduate award and joined the lab.
  • Jacqueline Awad received a 2013 NSERC USRA award and joined the lab.
  • Colin Daniel received NSERC and Forest Complexity Modeling scholarships.
  • Marie-Josée Fortin taught an intensive spatial ecology course at INPA in Manaus, Brazil.

2012

  • Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Weaver!
  • Welcome Georgina O’Farrill as a postdoctoral fellow.
  • New PhD students: Colin Daniel and Alexandre Camargo Martensen.
  • Colin Daniel received a Forest Complexity Modeling Scholarship.
  • Alexandre Camargo Martensen received a Connaught International Scholarship.
  • Alexander Watts received an OGS Scholarship.
  • Ilona Naujokaitis-Lewis received the General Motors Women in Science and Mathematics Award.
  • Ilona Naujokaitis-Lewis received a NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Award.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Josie Hughes!
  • Marie-Josée Fortin taught intensive spatial ecology courses in Spain, through the Forest Complexity Modeling NSERC CREATE program, and at a CHONe workshop.
  • Patrick Leighton began an Assistant Professor position at the Université de Montréal.
  • Landscape Ecology published a special issue on Landscape Connectivity.
  • Jonathan Ruppert received an Australia Endeavour Award for a research internship at AIMS.

2011

  • Julia Linke won the award for Best Canadian PhD Thesis in Remote Sensing.
  • Media coverage of McCauley et al. (2011) in Ecology.
  • Ilona Naujokaitis-Lewis received an OGS and a CGCS award.
  • Marie-Josée Fortin participated in an NCEAS working group on Stream Spatial Statistics.
  • New postdoctoral fellows: Francesc Montané, Kate Kirby, Julia Linke, and Patrick Leighton.
  • New PhD students: Aaron Hall and Alexander Watts.
  • Ricardo Ung graduated with an MSc.

2010

  • Welcome Hawthorne Beyer as a postdoctoral fellow.
  • Graduates:
    • Aleksandra Polakowska (MSc)
    • Allan Brand (MSc)
    • Ricardo Ung (MSc)
  • Marie-Josée Fortin taught intensive spatial ecology courses at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia.

2009

  • Marie-Josée Fortin received an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) (2009-2012).
  • Patrick James received a Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Alberta.
  • Bronwyn Rayfield received an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship at McGill University.
  • Jonathan Ruppert received an NSERC Graduate Scholarship.
  • Patrick James and Marie-Josée Fortin participated in an NCEAS working group on Landscape Genetics.