Awards & Recognitions
Congratulations to all of our award-winning EEB graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty.
Martin Krkošek receives NSERC’s E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship

A Canada Research Chair in population ecology, Krkošek sheds light on disease dynamics between wild and farmed salmon on Canada’s west coast. He collaborates with Indigenous communities, particularly with the Dzawada’enuxw and ‘Namgis First Nation, involving community members in his work.
“This award recognizes a collective effort of a community of students, collaborators, mentors and local peoples in the remote and unceded Kwakwakaʼwakw territory,” says Krkošek. “I am exceptionally fortunate for this village that raised me as a mathematical and field biologist.”
Krkošek’s “career and his vital research in this field are richly deserving of this support,” says Melanie Woodin, dean of the Faculty of Arts & Science – a sentiment echoed by Professor Stephen Wright, who won the Steacie Fellowship in 2015 and who is now EEB chair: “This stellar achievement reflects the importance of his work for both broad ecological understanding and for fisheries management.”
EEB Professor Keith Somers receives Amethyst Award
Professor Keith Somers received the Ontario Government’s Amethyst Award recognizing his outstanding contributions to science and leadership in the Ontario Public Service through his work with the Ontario Ministry of the […]
Sophia Lavergne receives graduate student award of merit from the Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada
Sophia Lavergne an EEB PhD graduate student (Boonstra lab) receives award of merit from the Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada (SWAAC). Sophia studies snowshoe hares in the boreal forest at the Kluane Lake […]
EEB Professor Harvey received the “Legends in Canadian Fisheries Science & Management” award
Professor Emeritus Harold Harvey (above right) received the “Legends in Canadian Fisheries Science and Management” award from the American Fisheries Society CARS organization. The award recognizes Harold’s lifetime contributions to fisheries, […]
Dr. Jen Perry wins Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB) Young Investigator Award
Congratulations Jen Perry on winning the 2015 Christopher Barnard Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Investigator. This award was presented this week by the (ASAB) Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour at […]
New Editor-In-Chief of Proc Roy Soc Proceedings B
Congratulations to EEB University Professor Spencer C.H. Barrett who is the new Editor-In-Chief of Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences The Proceedings B: Biological Sciences is the Royal Society’s […]