GRAHAM J. FORBES B. A. - York University, Toronto (Biogeography) M.A. - University of Waterloo (Geography) Ph.D. - University of Waterloo (Geography) Director, Sir James Dunn Wildlife Research Centre Director, NB Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Assistant Professor, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, Faculty of Science, UNB Coordinator, Greater Fundy Ecosystem Research Project Chair, Biodiversity Committee, Fundy Model Forest Board of Directors, Northeastern Naturalist Journal

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

After degrees in biogeography at York University and geography at University of Waterloo, Dr. Forbes completed his Ph.D. in 1994 at the University of Waterloo, Ontario studying predator-prey relationships and cross-boundary management issues. He has taught courses on conservation, population ecology, environmental impact assessment, and wildlife management at the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of New Brunswick. Since 1989, he has worked as an ecological consultant in Ontario was a regional coordinator in the Ontario Mammal Atlas project from 1991-93, and advises forest companies on sustainable forest management. In addition to current projects on small mammals, white-tailed deer, black bear, weasels and marten, bats , Arctic hare, Yellow Rail in the Maritimes, wildlife ecology and park management, Dr. Forbes has conducted research on birds in the high Arctic, white-tailed deer in Bruce Peninsula National Park, gray wolf, moose and habitat disturbance in Algonquin Provincial Park, and black bear in Fundy National Park. Dr. Forbes presently is the Director of the NBCFWRU, a research lab working on needs of wildlife and resource managers in the Maritimes, is Director of the Sir James Dunn Wildlife research Centre and Coordinator of the Greater Fundy Ecosystem Research Project, an interdisciplinary research initiative on ecosystem assessment and management near Fundy National Park, NB.

Research Interests:

My interests are varied. As Director of the NB Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, I aim to provide assistance to government and non-government agencies, industry, and the public on wildife-related issues. We presently are conducting studies on white-tailed deer and forestry, spatial scale effects on small mammals in managed forests, weasels, marten and fisher relationships to snow, arctic hare ecology and park management, and yellow rails. I also am involved in developing forest management guidelines for maintaining biodiversity, as well as protected area issues in New Brunswick. Overall, my research interests focus on predator-prey ecology, scale in ecology, forest wildlife, and conservation biology. Future work will include work on bats-forestry, and salamander-forestry issues.

e-mail to: forbes@unb.ca