Road A National Agenda for Canada Speaker Bios Moderators

Dave Ireland Brad Steinberg Tanya Pulfer Dave is the Managing director Brad Steinberg has worked Tanya is the Citizen Science of the Centre for in Ontario Parks for over 15 Coordinator at Ontario at the Royal Ontario Museum. years, and is currently the where her primary focus is to He is responsible for devel- senior conservation ecologist engage citizens in the collec- oping programs, projects and for parks and protected areas tion of natural history data. partnerships that help people with the MNR. He has de- Her primary project is the On- understand and conserve signed ecopassages, worked tario Reptile and Amphibian biodiversity. His role is help on several ecology Atlas. Before joining Ontario internal teams work with each projects, and is developing Nature in 2013, Tanya worked other toward unified and fo- protected area policy that will for several conservation or- cused goals, and to represent guide road management and ganizations including Florida the Centre of Discovery in use within Ontario Parks and Marine Research Institute, Biodiversity with all external conservation reserves. Ministry of Natural Resources, partners. He is also the Chair and the Nature Conservancy of the Ontario Road Ecology of Canada. Group (OREG), and has been instrumental in building the program since its inception in 2009. Conference brought to you by Keynote Speaker

Harvey Locke Harvey Locke is a recognized global leader in the field of parks, wilderness and large landscape conservation. He is a founder and strategic advisor to the Yellow- stone to Yukon Conservation Initiative and to conservation or- ganizations around the world. He is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected. In 2013 he received the J. B. Harkin Medal and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Panel I - Perspectives on Road Ecology

Jochen Jaeger Jeremy Guth Trevor Kinley Shawn Taylor Jochen A.G. Jaeger received his Jeremy Guth is a Trustee with After 23 years as a consulting Mr. Taylor is an aquatic biolo- PhD in Environmental Sciences the Woodcock Foundation biologist in southeast- gist by training and a member from the Swiss Federal Institute in New York and a Founding ern British Columbia, Trevor of the Ontario Road Ecology of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Sponsor of the 2011 ARC began working for Parks Cana- Group. Shawn is a Registered Switzerland in 2000. He worked International Wildlife Cross- da in 2010. His main responsi- Professional Biologist who has as a postdoctoral fellow with ing Infrastructure Design bilities have been the planning, developed specialist design Lenore Fahrig at Carleton Uni- Competition and is a sponsor construction and monitoring skills in the area of road- versity in Ottawa 2001-2003 and and member of the steering of projects in way mitigation, ecosystem again in Zurich at the ETH 2003- committee for its current Kootenay National Park. restoration, natural channels, 2007. He joined the Department iteration, ARC Solutions. constructed , sedi- of Geography, Planning and Since 1999, Jeremy has been ment and erosion control and Environment at Concordia Uni- actively funding initiatives to soil bioengineering. With 24 versity in Montreal as a professor reconnect large landscapes: years of hands-on experience in 2007. He is working in the in west - with Yellowstone with Dillon Consulting, Shawn fields of landscape ecology, road to Yukon, in the east - with has conducted, coordinated ecology, , ecolog- the Open Space Institute’s and supervised numerous ical modeling, environmental Transborder Fund. aquatic & terrestrial resource indicators, environmental impact assessments, and integrated assessment, and trans-disci- the results into multi-disci- plinary research concepts. plinary environmental assess- ments for a variety of linear infrastructure needs.

Panel II - On-the-Ground Research & Design

Jeff Bowman Kari Gunson Namrata Shrestha Cameron Smith Mandy Karch Jeff is a Research Scientist Eco-Kare’s principal, Namrata has led and/ Cameron Smith is the Mandy has been the with the Wildlife Research Kari has worked for the or contributed to various Secretary of the Algonquin coordinator of the Ontario and Monitoring Section past sixteen years as a initiatives that advance TR- to Adirondacks Collabo- Road Ecology Group since of the Ontario Ministry contract road ecologist on CA’s ecosystem manage- rative, an environmental its formation in 2009. Her of Natural Resources and road mitigation projects ment objectives. She has organization dedicated interest in Road ecology Forestry, and an Adjunct throughout North America, been active in fostering to improving biodiversity stems from a love for tur- Professor in the Environ- including Banff National research collaborations and habitat connectivity in tles and turtle conservation, mental and Life sciences Park, Montana, New York, and applied research so and around the Frontenac and inititally got involved Graduate Program at Trent Vermont, and Ontario. She as to provide science Arch, an area that is the in OREG through her work University. Jeff has been is currently synthesizing based guidance to policy, critical link for maintaining at the Toronto Zoo. She is with MNRF since 2001 her expertise into several planning, and practice of proud to work with OREG’s and has been involved in best management practice ecosystem management in Northeastern North members and partners to research projects on many documents at a municipal, within TRCA. America. help resolve road ecology different species. regional and provincial issues across the province. level.

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Elena Kreuzberg John McDonnell John Urquhart Kim Barrett Tracy Lee Before moving to Canada in John was born in rural west John currently works as Kim Barrett is a graduate Tracy is a senior project 2006, Elena participated in Quebec and he continues the conservation science of the University of Guelph, manager at the Miistakis the conservation and man- to reside in the municipality Manager at Ontario Nature. where she completed her Institute, a research agement of Central Asian of Mayo north of Gatineau In this capacity he oversees MSc on wood turtles in institute affiliated with biodiversity in Uzbekistan where his family originally citizen science activities in- Algonquin Provincial Park. Mount Royal University. and Kazakhstan, first as a settled almost 200 years cluding the Ontario Reptile For the past 10 years, Tracy acquired her M.Sc. student and later as a senior ago. His interests include and Amphibian Atlas which she has been the Senior from the University of researcher at the Institute conservation, community makes substantial contri- Terrestrial Ecologist with Calgary, Resources and of Zoology in Tashkent. development and connect- butions to the provincial Conservation Halton. Kim the Environment Pro- In 2008, Elena began her ing people with nature. record of road crossings of is a member of the Jeffer- gram. Tracy’s graduate work in Canada at Nature Prior to his joining CPAWS reptiles and amphibians in son Salamander Recovery work, in association with Canada as a conservation Ottawa Valley as Executive Ontario. He also oversees Team. the Miistakis Institute, manager, and also obtained Director, John was director the nature reserve program focused on the develop- her Master of Science de- of the Forêt La Blanche that aims to fight habitat ment and assessment of gree in landscape ecology. Ecological Reserve in west- loss and defragmentation a citizen science project She currently works as a ern Quebec. through direct protection to monitor biologist for of both core and corridor movement across a the Canadian Parks and Wil- habitats. major . derness Society’s Ottawa chapter. Panel IV - Towards a Canadian Road Ecology Group

Harvey Locke Kent Prior Yves Bédard Christie Spence Harvey Locke is a recognized Kent works for Parks Canada Working as a road ecology Christie Spence is the Senior global leader in the field of where he the Ecolog- specialist for thirty-three Manager for Natural Resourc- parks, wilderness and large ical Restoration Division in years, Yves Bedard has been es and Land Management for landscape conservation. He Gatineau, Quebec. Coin- involved in many impact Gatineau Park in Quebec. She is a founder and strategic cidentally, played an studies on major road has been with the National advisor to the Yellowstone to important role in Kent’s PhD projects in Quebec. He has Capital Commission for the Yukon Conservation Initiative research on the conservation been the scientist on last three years, working and to conservation organiza- genetics of snakes – during numerous research projects towards the conservation tions around the world. He is which a distressing wealth of that relate to road ecology, of Gatineau Park as well as a member of the IUCN World DNA samples were provi- including the control of inva- overseeing the corporate Commission on Protected. sioned by the intersection sive species like Phragmites research program for natural In 2013 he received the J. B. of rubber tires, asphalt, and and ragweed, the restoration resources on federal lands in Harkin Medal and the Queen serpents. Otherwise, Kent of borrow pits, vegeta- the broader Capital Region. Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee lives on a dirt road and rides tion management along Christie is particularly focused Medal. a bike to work. highways, the construction on determining and mitigating of restoration wetlands, the the effects of habitat frag- impact of major roadworks mentation in Gatineau Park. on brook trout, and the fragmentation of habitat by roads.

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