Tom Perry is an Ecological Team Leader with Parks Canada, based in Prince Albert National Park, where he leads initiatives focused on aquatic invasive species prevention and boreal ecosystem monitoring. He is a former Area Wildlife Ecologist with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment, where he led regional wildlife management and monitoring programs in the Boreal...
Gerry Kuzyk is an Area Wildlife Ecologist with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment, based in Meadow Lake. He brings extensive experience in ungulate ecology and population management, contributing to wildlife conservation and land-use planning in the boreal region.
Dr. Iga Stasiak is the Provincial Wildlife Health Specialist with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment, overseeing wildlife disease surveillance and health management programs across the province. She collaborates with partners on initiatives such as chronic wasting disease monitoring and zoonotic disease research, integrating veterinary expertise into conservation and land-use decision-making.
Dr. Ian Stavness is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at USask and directs the Biological Imaging & Graphics (BIG) lab focused on deep learning, computer vision, and 3D modeling for biological applications. Stavness is a leader in biological imaging and modelling (OpenSim Fellow; founding member and core developer of ArtiSynth, an innovative open source...
Dr. Daniel Fortin is a Professor in the Dépt. de biologie at Université Laval and holds the NSERC-Université Laval Industrial Research Chair in Silviculture and Wildlife. He studies mechanisms underpinning animal distributions in boreal landscapes from trophic interactions, food-web dynamics, and behaviour including resource selection and responses to human disturbance. Fortin maintains a research program...
Dr. Sabine Gilch is an Associate Professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Prion Disease Research at the University of Calgary in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Ecosystem and Public Health. A member of the Alberta Prion Research Institute, her work bridges the molecular biology of prion infection with therapeutics to...
Dr. Emily Jenkins is a Professor in the Dept. of Vet. Micro. at USask’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine and the head of the WCVM Zoonotic Parasite Research Unit. She is a Joint Member of the School of Public Health and Assoc. Member of the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre. Her research involves the biology...