Current Projects
- Biodiversity on Working Landscapes. (SSHRC Insight Grant, 2024-2029).
- Conservation Easements in Canada. (SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant. 2023-2024.)
- Environmental Action in Faith Communities. (SSHRC Insight Development Grant. 2021-23. PI: Tanhum Yoreh, School of Environment)
Ongoing & Past Projects
- Read about SAR research on CBC North and the Globe & Mail
- Bison as Reconcilation on the Great Plains (SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2021 - 2023)
- Read a piece about bison I co-authored in NiCHE & Fokelore
- Transformative Politics of the Wild (SSHRC Connection Grant, 2019 - 2021)
- Read a piece about biodiversity laws in Canada I co-authored in The Narwal and The Conversation
Canadian Species at Risk Conservation
- Read an interview I gave for The Narwhal.
- Read a piece I wrote for the Saskatoon Star Phoenix.
- Read an interview I gave for the Globe and Mail.
- Read my criticism of the Ford Gov't and turtle conservation in The Narwhal
- Read my criticism of the Ontario ESA in the Hamilton Spectator.
- Read my take on federalism and species at risk in The Narwhal.
- Read an interview I gave for CBC Saskatchewan.
- Read an interview I gave for Mississauga.com
- Read a piece I wrote for The Conversation
- See me on The Agenda with Steve Paikin.
- Read an interview I gave for CBC.
- Read an interview I gave for MetroNews
Canada-US Transboundary Environmental Policy & Governance
- Read an interview I gave for the National Observer on Catherine McKenna.
- Read an interview I gave for CBC.
- Read an interview I gave in Grist
Political Ecology of the Bakken Formation (SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2016 - 2019)
- Read a piece about Saskatchewan's climate plan I co-authored in Policy Options.
- Read about my take on climate change and oil in Saskatchewan in Policy Options.
- Hear me discuss some of this work on The Prairie Naturalist.
- Read about it on CBC.
- Read a piece I wrote for the Regina LeaderPost
Graduate Research Opportunities I welcome graduate students in Political Science or Geography who are interested in environmental policy, especically wildlife conservation and Canada-US environmental relations. In Geography, I accept MA and PhD students. In Poiltical Science, I accept PhD students. NOTE: I am not accepting students in 2025-2026.
Current Graduate Students
- Forrest Hisey, PhD. Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
- Vanita Clare, PhD Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
- Emma Gill-Alderson, PhD Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
- Megan DeVries, PhD Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.
- Lily Dart, PhD Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
Past Graduate Students
- Nathan Olmstead, PhD Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
- Melissa Heppner, M.A. Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, 2022
- Spencer Williams, MScSM, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2022
- Oliver Brandt, M.A. Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, 2021
- Mary-Kate Pizzuti, MScSM, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2021
- Forrest Hisey, M.A. Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, 2020
- Allegra Bethlenfalvy, MScSM, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2020
- Minh Do, PhD, Department of Political Science, 2020
- Grant Penton, MA, Department of Geography, 2018
- Philip Szwiec, MScSM, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2018
- Patrick Braszak, MA, Department of Geography, 2017
- Katie Valentine, MA, Department of Geography, 2017
- Alexandra Van der Pol, MScSM, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2016
- Katrina Jansen, MA Department of Geography, 2015
- Angela Ayers, MPP student, University of Michigan Dearborn, 2011