Photo Credit: michael Runtz
About Me
I am passionate about science and education. I have been a science educator and wildlife researcher for over 10 years. I am currently an Adjunct Professor in the Environmental & Life Sciences Graduate Department at Trent University and an instructor in the Biology Department. My current focus is on building online biology curriculum that is interactive, mobile, and widely accessible.
Check out www.cordulia.com to find out more.
My research has focussed on how hybridization and environmental factors, including human influences, alter evolutionary trajectories and lead to contemporary evolution of species. Much of my work has been on Canis species and in particular Eastern Wolves (Canis lycaon), a threatened species in Ontario and Canada. In 2012, I founded the Eastern Wolf Survey, a research project focussed on non-invasively tracking Eastern Wolves in southern Ontario's Provincial Parks.
Check out www.cordulia.com to find out more.
My research has focussed on how hybridization and environmental factors, including human influences, alter evolutionary trajectories and lead to contemporary evolution of species. Much of my work has been on Canis species and in particular Eastern Wolves (Canis lycaon), a threatened species in Ontario and Canada. In 2012, I founded the Eastern Wolf Survey, a research project focussed on non-invasively tracking Eastern Wolves in southern Ontario's Provincial Parks.
news: october 9, 2017
The RADsequencing data associated with our publication in Biology Letters (Rutledge et al. 2015. RADsequencing and genomic simulations resolve hybrid origins in North American Canis) (http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/11/7/20150303) is now more easily accessible through the Dryad Repository at: http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.pr318
news: Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Our comment on hybrid origins of eastern and red wolves was published today in Science Advances. Read it here.
