In the News
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"Fossil discovery deepens snakefly mystery"
April 06, 2021Bruce Archibald (SFU) and Vladimir Makarkin of the Russian Academy of Sciences, recently discovered... read more
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"Paleontologists discover major new insect group after solving 150-year-old mystery"
February 24, 2021Faculty of Science News has posted an article about an SFU-led team's discovery of how fossil... read more
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"Wild sockeye salmon sustainability and genomics focus of new research collaboration"
February 18, 2021The SFU News Research page recently featured a story about a new collaborative project, led by... read more
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"Study finds Sawfish face extinction unless overfishing is curbed"
February 11, 2021The Faculty of Science has posted a story about a new study by Nick Dulvy and colleagues, showing... read more
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"Global decline of oceanic shark and ray populations ‘staggering’, SFU experts warn"
February 01, 2021Nick Dulvy is a co-author of a new scientific paper in Nature that warns of rising extinction risk... read more
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"What Is a Bird?"
December 08, 2020Tony Williams has published his third book (just in time for Christmas). It's called 'What Is A... read more
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Kevin Lam's online teaching experience featured in CEE blog post
September 24, 2020SFU's Centre for Educational Excellence (CEE) posted a blog about Kevin Lam and his efforts to... read more
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Abundance of Salmon Key to Feeding 'Underdog' Stream Fish: SFU Research
September 23, 2020Researchers from Simon Fraser University’s Salmon Watershed Lab have found when salmon returns are... read more
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Study Suggests Sea Lice on Salmon is Under-reported at B.C. Salmon Farms
September 10, 2020Sean Godwin, a PhD student at SFU at the time of the research (currently a Liber Ero Fellow at... read more
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"eDNA technology more effective in monitoring salmon runs: SFU research"
July 16, 2020Dr. Vicki Marlatt and Gitanyow Fisheries Authority’s head fisheries biologist, Mark Cleveland, are... read more
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"New fossil discovery shows 50 million-year-old Canada-Australia connection"
June 16, 2020ScienceDaily features Bruce Archibald and his collaborators discussing their new fossil discovery.... read more
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"Faculty of Science interviews Dr. Leithen M'Gonigle"
May 22, 2020Read the interview with Biology's Leithen M'Gonigle on the Faculty of Science New Faculty Profiles... read more
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"Elana Varner (Gries-lab) talks about the impact of COVID 19 on rat populations"
April 26, 2020BurnabyNow talks to Elana Varner (Gries-lab) about the impact of COVID 19 on rat... read more
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"SFU Researchers Discover Potential Way to Manage Insects Without Chemicals"
November 29, 2019A team of researchers from Gerhard Gries's lab led by Adam Blake have made a key discovery about... read more
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"First Fossil Dragonflies From B.C. Identified and Named"
November 04, 2019SFU News features Bruce Archibald and his collaborators. Read more... read more
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"New Evidence Shows Human Presence in Haida Gwaii 2,200 Years Earlier Than Previous Estimates"
September 10, 2019SFU News features a new study by Rolf Mathewes and his collaborators. Read more... read more
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"New analysis of century-old fish scales reveals startling decline in salmon populations"
August 20, 2019SFU News features a new study by Michael Price (Reynolds lab) and colleagues. Read more... read more
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"Demographic dynamics of the smallest marine vertebrates fuel coral-reef ecosystem functioning"
June 06, 2019Congratulations to Simon Brandl, a post-doc in the Côté lab, whose paper in Science ('Demographic... read more
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"The Dirt on Sustainable Sheep Farming"
May 27, 2019The Faculty of Science news page has a feature story about David Hik's newest massive online open... read more
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"Debunking Spider Misconceptions"
May 14, 2019Andi Fischer from the Gries lab was on Breakfast Television last week with his spiders, promoting... read more
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"Biology Class Analyzes Dog DNA for Body Size, Snout Length and Coat Length"
April 17, 2019SFU Faculty of Science talks to Kathleen Fitzpatrick and her students in BISC 302, a genetics lab... read more
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"Anal Secretions of Aphids Provide Sustenance for Mosquitoes"
April 08, 2019SFU Faculty of Science features a new study by Dan Peach and colleagues from the Gries Lab. ... read more
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"Citizen scientists' rare fossil bird finds shed new light on avian history"
April 08, 2019The Vancouver Sun published an article last Saturday on a new study co-authored by Bruce... read more
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Dan Greenberg and Wendy Palen author Perspective in Science and is quoted by CBC!
April 04, 2019Wendy recently authored a Perspective article in Science and was interviewed extensively for the... read more
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"Early-career lecturer Kevin Lam driven by life-long passion for teaching"
March 05, 2019SFU News has a feature article about our own Kevin Lam, the recipient of a 2018 SFU Excellence in... read more
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"Study predicts warmer, drier mountains pose a double whammy for cold-adapted amphibians'
January 25, 2019SFU Faculty of Science features a recent publication from Wendy Palen and collaborators. Read more... read more
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"Decline of the different: Evolutionarily isolated Amphibians less likely to leave the forest"
December 12, 2018SFU Faculty of Science features a recent publication from Arne Mooers' lab. Read more about the... read more
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"Putting the salmon into salmonberry"
December 12, 2018SFU Faculty of Science features a recent publication from the lab of Ron Ydenberg, with Biological... read more
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Halloween "inspidered" news from the Gries lab!
November 01, 2018Halloween "inspidered" media interest in the "alien empire" of spiders. Andreas... read more
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"Steelhead life cycle linked to environment, pink salmon abundance"
October 05, 2018See the SFU News post about a new study, led by PhD candidate Colin Bailey in John Reynolds'... read more
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"Global study finds taller plant species taking over as mountains and the Arctic warm"
October 01, 2018Read the SFU News report on a study by a global team, including our own professor David Hik... read more
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ESC Women in Entomology Series Features Heather Coatsworth!
August 29, 2018The Entomological Society of Canada (ESC) has started a "Women in Entomology Series" and... read more
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"Ornithologists are flocking to Vancouver for IOC2018"
August 14, 201818-28 August 2018 Vancouver will be hosting the 27th International Ornithological Congress 2018, on... read more
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"Young salmon may leap to 'oust the louse'"
August 10, 2018Read the SFU News feature about Reynolds' lab honours student Emma Atkinson's research into why... read more
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"Indigenous students take on genomics in new research program"
August 07, 2018The initial offering of SING Canada 2018 was hosted by Faculty of Science and Faculty of Health... read more
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"Scientists on Twitter: Preaching to the choir or singing from the rooftops?"
July 12, 2018Check out the SFU News article about Isabelle Côté and Emily Darling's analysis into who is... read more
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"Happy Flying Ant Day"
July 09, 2018On the recent "Happy Flying Ant Day", droves of winged ants were observed descending on... read more
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New picnic tables for the courtyard
June 26, 2018You may have noticed our shiny new picnic tables. The Grad Caucus asked for these as a way of... read more
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Bad mosquito season on the way
June 07, 2018Dan Peach, PhD candidate in the Gries lab, was on TV this week, warning of the mosquitos on their... read more
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"Prime growing areas for B.C. oysters contain alarmingly high concentrations of plastic microbeads"
May 24, 2018SFU News has posted a research feature highlighting recently published work from Leah Bendell's... read more
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"A few lost souls may help salmon populations thrive"
May 23, 2018The Faculty of Science has posted a research feature highlighting recently published work from... read more
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"Why we should listen to bees-scientist and poet collaborate on new book"
May 08, 2018Mark Winston has collaborated with the City of Surrey's poet laureate Renee Saklikar (pictured... read more
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New Postage Stamps Celebrate Bees!
May 08, 2018Elizabeth Elle consulted on the most recent collectible stamps from Canada Post, highlighting the... read more
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"Connecting salmon scientists through free research publications"
April 20, 2018Jonathan Moore is part of a global team that launched the Salmon Science Network (SSN) earlier this... read more
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"Scientists suggest protecting ‘reefs of hope’ may offset climate-change damage to coral reefs"
April 20, 2018SFU News featured a story about a recent study by SFU alumna Emily Darling and our own Isabelle... read more
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"A new approach to understanding and protecting diversity among shark species"
April 13, 2018The Faculty of Science has posted a research feature highlighting recent work from the Mooers... read more
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Faculty of Science interviews Bernie Crepsi
March 22, 2018The Faculty of Science has posted an interview with our own Bernie Crespi about his research, why... read more
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"No plastics left behind: Study confirms plastic beach debris a danger to ocean life"
March 09, 2018The Faculty of Science has posted a news article featuring Leah Bendell and her student's research... read more
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"Wildlife conservation in North America may not be science-based after all"
March 07, 2018Read the SFU News article about a recent study led by BISC PhD alumnus Kyle Artelle. Along with... read more
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"SFU students use CRISPR genome editing technology in hopes of improving yields of rice and wheat"
March 07, 2018SFU News has posted an article featuring BISC 357 students - their lab results may improve rice and... read more
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"Student Finds Attending High-School and SFU a Perfect Mix"
January 29, 2018The Faculty of Sciences has posted a feature news article about Carl Lowenberger and a BISC 298... read more
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CBC Feature on Triangle Island
January 11, 2018In case you missed it, the CBC did a great feature on seabird research on Triangle Island by... read more
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"It's the small things that matter - when insects shaped today's natural world"
January 16, 2018The Faculty of Science has posted a story on a study led by our own researcher, Bruce Archibald... read more
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Faculty of Science interviews Jonathan Moore
December 12, 2017The Faculty of Science has posted a "Featured Researcher" piece about our own Jonathan... read more
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"New food baits for trapping house mice, black rats and brown rats"
November 12, 2017The Gries-lab has devised "a fiendishly clever way to trick rats into getting inside a trap by... read more
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"Sociodiversity in honeybees and humans"
December 07, 2017The Faculty of Science has posted a feature of an invited research commentary by our own Tier 1... read more
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Faculty of Science interviews Tony Williams
November 27, 2017The Faculty of Science has posted a "Featured Researcher" piece about our own Tony... read more
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New study shows conservation spending actually works
October 25, 2017Professor Arne Mooers and two former students are part of an international team that have now shown... read more
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New Study Shows Banning Shark Fin in the U.S. Won't Help Save Sharks
September 28, 2017The Faculty of Science News page has posted a summary of a recent paper by Biology Postdoctoral... read more
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TLC Features Sherryl Bisgrove's New Strategies for Teaching Developmental Biology
August 22, 2017Check out the TLC Blog Post about Sherryl Bisgrove's experience using new strategies, including the... read more
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KEY Big Data Features Nick Dulvy's Work on Shark Populations
July 28, 2017Read the story about how Nick Dulvy's research group uses Big Data. The story by KEY, SFU's Big... read more
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Study finds greater risk of extinction among high diversity amphibian groups
May 29, 2017SFU's Issues and Experts and SFU News have featured a recent study by Dan Greenberg and Arne... read more
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"Response diversity, nonnative species, and disassembly rules buffer freshwater ecosystem processes from anthropogenic change"
April 19, 2017The Faculty of Science Research News page has posted a summary of a recent paper by Jonathan Moore... read more
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"Global representation of threatened amphibians ex situ is bolstered by non-traditional institutions, but gaps remain"
April 11, 2017A study led by graduate students Alannah Biega and Dan Greenberg with post doctoral researcher Tom... read more
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"Bright spots of hope for sharks and rays"
April 06, 2017The Faculty of Science Research News page has posted a summary of a recent paper by Nick Dulvy and... read more
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"Choosey female guppies select for more colourful males with bigger Y chromosomes"
April 04, 2017The Faculty of Science Research News page has posted a summary of a recent paper by Felix Breden... read more
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"Honey bees navigate using magnetic abdomens"
March 28, 2017Physicsworld reports that "Honey bees navigate using magnetic abdomens"... read more
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"How and why are humans like social insects?"
March 13, 2017The Faculty of Science Research News page has posted a summary of a recent paper by Bernie Crespi,... read more
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"Natural perfumes mediate mate choice and speciation in stick insects"
February 23, 2017A team of scientists from around the world, including researchers from Simon Fraser University... read more
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"How flies are flirting on the fly"
February 20, 2017SFU News featured a story about a study led by the Gries lab that "reveals that the... read more
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Dulvy paper in PNAS looks at black-swan events
March 08, 2017Nick Dulvy and colleagues have a new paper in PNAS, looking at black-swan events in animal... read more
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Wendy Palen's op-ed in the New York Times
February 14, 2017Wendy Palen has a NYTimes opinion piece today about the muzzling of Canadian scientists--and... read more
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TLC Blog Post Features SFU Teaching and Learning Grants underway - including a study by Ivona Mladenovic!
January 20, 2017Check out the TLC Blog Post highlighting studies by faculty using SFU grants, including one by our... read more
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Birds don't need exercise to stay fit for epic flights
January 13, 2017How hard do animals work during routine activities (finding food, mates)? This was the topic of a... read more
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SFU News Features BISC grad's work at the Smithsonian!
October 31, 2016The SFU News website has a feature article about BISC grad Jayme Lewthwaite's trip to the... read more
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100 Voices for Canadian Science Communication
October 11, 2016Professor Isabelle Côté has been recognized as one of 100 voices for Canadian Science... read more
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New paper by Crossin and Williams explains weird penguin reproduction
October 05, 2016Crested penguins do a lot of weird stuff when it comes to reproduction: they lay two eggs but only... read more
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New paper by Dembo, Collard, and Mooers earns some press
July 05, 2016Mana Dembo (left), who completed her PhD in June, has written a paper with HESP and BISC members... read more
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Sea Star Study Featured in SFU News
June 24, 2016The SFU News & Events page features a new study by Jessica Schultz, Ryan Cloutier and Isabelle... read more
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Economics Drive the Extinction of Large Marine Animals
June 13, 2016The Faculty of Science news page features a recent study from Nick Dulvy and colleagues, who found... read more
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Simon Valdez a Finalist in NSERC'S Science Exposed Contest!
June 09, 2016Graduate Student Simon Valdez is a finalist in the NSERC Science Exposed image contest. There is a... read more
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Gries Lab Featured by SFU News
April 11, 2016The SFU News "Engaging Research" page featured the Gries Lab's latest discoveries using... read more
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Biology Co-op Student In the News!
March 22, 2016A Biology Co-op student, Warren H.L. Wong, has been written up in the Agassiz Harrison... read more
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Gries Lab in the News
February 29, 2016Scotts Canada is the new industrial sponsor for Gerhard Gries' research chair, and according to Dr.... read more
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Professor Emeritus Larry Dill and Colleagues Publish Article in Nature Communications
February 23, 2016Read the article by Professor Emeritus Larry Dill and colleagues published today in Nature... read more
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Faculty of Science Interviews Margo Moore
January 26, 2016The Faculty of Science has posted a "Featured Researcher" blurb about our own Margo... read more
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Hands-On Learning on the Mountain
January 18, 2016We're happy to update that, as well as the Faculty of Science post, SFU News has posted a feature... read more
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Sea Stars Shed Light on Human Reproduction
January 14, 2016The Faculty of Science has posted a story about Mike Hart and colleagues' research into sea stars... read more
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Chair Elizabeth Elle Featured in Canadian Geographic
January 08, 2016An article about insect declines in the December 2015 wildlife issue of Canadian Geographic relies... read more
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TLC Blog Post Celebrates BISC 272!
January 04, 2016The Teaching and Learning Centre has posted a blog about our own Kevin Lam's undergraduate course... read more
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Carl Lowenberger talks to Global TV about kissing bugs
November 17, 2015Carl Lowenberger and his colleague Dr. María Magdalena Ramírez spoke to Global TV on Tuesday about... read more
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The Ruff featured in Nature Genetics
November 16, 2015Biology adjunct Dov Lank is lead author on an exciting paper published today in Nature... read more
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Mammoths in Haida Gwaii
October 08, 2015Rolf Mathewes is senior author of a new research paper that focuses on the past environment during... read more
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Insects in the news
August 24, 2015Nathan Derstine from the Gries Lab spoke to The Province about wasps this Sunday, in an... read more
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Jon Moore and colleagues publish a letter in Science
August 10, 2015Jon Moore, of Biological Science and Resource and Environmental Management, has published (with 10... read more
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Landmark Paper from HESP and BISC members Mark Collard and Arne Mooers
July 31, 2015HESP and BISC members Mark Collard (left) and Arne Mooers (right) lead a “landmark” paper published... read more
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Inspiring BISC Alumna
July 30, 2015Poh Tan graduated with a BSc in Biological Sciences (Animal Physiology) in 2002. She went on to... read more
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New Faculty Profile: Vicki Marlatt
July 10, 2015Check out the interview with Biology's Vicki Marlatt on the Faculty of Science New Faculty Profiles... read more
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Earth2Ocean Feature on Faculty of Science Blog
July 17, 2015Check out Diane Mar-Nicolle's feature article about Biology's Earth2Ocean group, on the Faculty of... read more
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Elle Lab Report picked up by local media
April 08, 2015Elle Lab report for Metro Vancouver on pollinator declines picked up by local media. Find the... read more
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3-Minute Thesis 2015
March 10, 2015On March 9, Antonia Musso (Gries lab), took 2nd place in the SFU-wide 3-Minute Thesis (3MT)... read more
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View BISC entries in NSERC's SCIENCE, ACTION!
March 10, 2015Two of our very own grads are finalists in NSERC's SCIENCE, ACTION! 60 second video competition:... read more
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The Vancouver Sun talk to Isabelle Côté about High Seas Fishing Ban
February 13, 2015Most countries would benefit if the high seas were closed to fishing, according to a study... read more
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Sleep soundly thanks to the Gries Lab
December 22, 2014The Gries lab has made important discoveries about bedbugs that will help in their control. Check... read more
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MacLeans Highlights the Science of Brewing
November 13, 2014Brewing science sparks collaboration across disciplines, a thirst for knowledge, and the perfect... read more
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CBC's On the Coast talks to Arne Mooers
October 08, 2014Our very own Arne Mooers spoke to CBC's On the Coast about muzzling of government scientists in... read more
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Sean McCann tells GlobalTV about fire ants
October 07, 2014In case you missed it, Sean McCann from the Gries Lab appeared on GlobalTV this week, to tell... read more
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Jill Packham's BISC Co-op Experience with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
September 17, 2014Biology and Math Coordinator, Stuart Billings recently wrote about BISC Co-op student Jill... read more
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Mark Winston has an Op-ed in the New York Times
July 14, 2014Honey bees are declining, and the reasons why are important not only for bees, but for our society... read more
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Brewing Science in the news!
April 16, 2014Zamir Punja and students of the Brewing Science course are featured in this article from The... read more
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Radio Canada International features Dr. Lance Lesack's work on the Mackenzie River delta
April 07, 2014CBC International has run a web-based story on Dr. Lesack and colleagues' recent work on the... read more
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Bernie Crespi and colleagues make the cover of Science!
May 15, 2014Read the article by Bernie Crespi and colleagues in the latest issue of Science: "Stick Insect... read more
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Elizabeth Elle speaks to Global News about pesticides and pollinator decline
June 24, 2014Elizabeth Elle comments on a meta-analysis linking systemic pesticides to pollinator declines. See... read more
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Wendy Palen and colleagues urge stepping back from pipelines in Nature
June 25, 2014Wendy Palen and colleagues urge the US & Canada to step back from pipelines in a comment... read more
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Dov Lank's research on the Ruff featured in the Vancouver Sun
May 15, 2014Read the article on David Lank's work with a flock of Ruffs in The Vancouver Sun: "It's a... read more