Lauren is focussing on utilizing genetic and genomic techniques to elucidate the evolutionary, geographic and resource factors driving grizzly and black bear population structure along the interior to coastal ecotone of British Columbia. She is passionate about integrating laboratory and field based science and applying molecular techniques to the ecological questions of large carnivore conservation. I believe that good science is community driven, conducted and motivated.
As modern scientists, we frequently deal in abstraction. We are separated from the species and ecosystems we study often by hundreds of miles, bureaucratic bubbles, cloistered campuses, and the machinations of innumerable statistical analyses whirring silently away in the electric flatness…