Jeremy T. Kerr

Department of Biology, University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

** Dr. Jeremy Kerr holds the University Research Chair in Macroecology and Conservation and is Full Professor and Chair of Biology at University of Ottawa. His primary research seeks to discover how the environmental change affects biodiversity. This work has led to discoveries with broad impact, most recently around how and why climate change has affected species survival, with a number of publications in journals like Science. Dr. Kerr is strongly engaged in public science at the science-policy interface, working for many years on creating and implementing policies on equity, diversity, and inclusion, and in areas related to his research. He is Past-President of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, and an alumnus of the Global Young Academy. Research successes include Young Researcher of the Year, Early Researcher Award from Ontario, the Excellence in Media Relations prize for Research, the 2018-2019 Science Ambassador for Partners in Research. He is an executive member of Council for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and is Chair of its Committee on Discovery Research, appointed to this role by Federal Cabinet.

Presentation(s):

• COS 27-2 - Range shifts and emergence phenology advances in odonates (dragonflies and damselflies) are interrelated across Europe and North America

  Monday, August 15, 2022
  3:45 PM – 4:00 PM EDT

• COS 85-5 - Global effects of El Niño and climate change on thermal niche position of terrestrial mammals

  Tuesday, August 16, 2022
  2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EDT

• OOS 23-1 - Guidelines for bridging the divide between ecological forecasts and decision-making

  Wednesday, August 17, 2022
  8:00 AM – 8:15 AM EDT

• COS 144-2 - Are agricultural landscapes a buzz kill? Bumblebee trait diversity and species persistence

  Wednesday, August 17, 2022
  10:15 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

• COS 161-5 - Experimental evidence of decoupled predator-prey dynamics in a multitrophic metacommunity

  Wednesday, August 17, 2022
  11:00 AM – 11:15 AM EDT

• COS 192-1 - Abiotic and biotic drivers of blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) abundance in distinct regions of establishment in Canada

  Wednesday, August 17, 2022
  3:30 PM – 3:45 PM EDT

• COS 222-1 - Using high resolution thermal remote sensing and the limits of species' tolerance to assess local vulnerability to climate extremes

  Thursday, August 18, 2022
  8:00 AM – 8:15 AM EDT