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John Reynolds, 604-291-5636; reynolds@sfu.ca
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John Reynolds, 604-291-5636; reynolds@sfu.ca
Stuart Colcleugh, Media & PR 604-291-3035; stuart_colcleugh@sfu.ca
November 30, 2005
John Reynolds, a one-time doctoral student at Simon Fraser University and now an internationally recognized expert on biodiversity and fish ecology, has returned to SFU as the Tom Buell BC Leadership Chair in salmon conservation and management, through the province's Leading Edge Endowment Fund.
Reynolds, a Toronto native who most recently worked for 12 years as a professor and chair in conservation ecology at the University of East Anglia, England, will bring together diverse academic approaches to conserving salmon and their ecosystems.
He will be based in SFU's biology department, where he will collaborate with more than a dozen faculty members throughout the university on various aspects of salmon biology and conservation. He will also work with a number of outside organizations, including federal and provincial agencies, the Pacific Salmon Foundation and the Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council.
His projects will focus on improving scientific understanding of the dynamics of wild salmon populations and their ecosystems, identifying the importance of various potential threats to the decline and recovery of populations, and translating research knowledge into well-founded management advice for salmon and their habitats.
Reynolds plans to assemble a large team of researchers from several institutions to undertake comparative studies and long-term experiments on wild salmon populations at unprecedented levels of replication and detail.
“The connections revealed by these experiments could lead to a major shift in the way we approach salmon management,” says Reynolds. “I hope a better understanding of how salmon fisheries and habitat management affect both salmon and wider aspects of our ecosystem will lead to more holistic approaches to conservation.”
BC established 20 permanent leadership chairs across a wide variety of disciplines in 2002. The province provided $2.25 million for each chair, with matching funds to be secured by the host universities from external partners.
This LEEF chair is named after the late Tom Buell, the former president, CEO and chair of Weldwood of Canada. One of Buell's enduring concerns was the sustainability of Pacific salmon stocks.
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Website: www.sfu.ca/reynolds
Reynolds, a Toronto native who most recently worked for 12 years as a professor and chair in conservation ecology at the University of East Anglia, England, will bring together diverse academic approaches to conserving salmon and their ecosystems.
He will be based in SFU's biology department, where he will collaborate with more than a dozen faculty members throughout the university on various aspects of salmon biology and conservation. He will also work with a number of outside organizations, including federal and provincial agencies, the Pacific Salmon Foundation and the Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council.
His projects will focus on improving scientific understanding of the dynamics of wild salmon populations and their ecosystems, identifying the importance of various potential threats to the decline and recovery of populations, and translating research knowledge into well-founded management advice for salmon and their habitats.
Reynolds plans to assemble a large team of researchers from several institutions to undertake comparative studies and long-term experiments on wild salmon populations at unprecedented levels of replication and detail.
“The connections revealed by these experiments could lead to a major shift in the way we approach salmon management,” says Reynolds. “I hope a better understanding of how salmon fisheries and habitat management affect both salmon and wider aspects of our ecosystem will lead to more holistic approaches to conservation.”
BC established 20 permanent leadership chairs across a wide variety of disciplines in 2002. The province provided $2.25 million for each chair, with matching funds to be secured by the host universities from external partners.
This LEEF chair is named after the late Tom Buell, the former president, CEO and chair of Weldwood of Canada. One of Buell's enduring concerns was the sustainability of Pacific salmon stocks.
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(digital photo available)
Website: www.sfu.ca/reynolds