Welcome to the Global
Change and Forest Insects
Research Group!

We are a research laboratory located at the Canadian Forest Service, Atlantic Forestry Centre in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

OUR MISSION IS TO CONDUCT CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH ON A WIDE RANGE OF QUESTIONS IN FOREST SCIENCE AND TRAIN THE NEXT GENERATION OF FOREST ENTOMOLOGISTS

What we do

Our research program investigates the causes and consequences of climate change and international trade on the outbreak ecology of forest insect pests. We use theoretical and empirical approaches as well as field and laboratory techniques to study the chemical, behavioural, population and community ecology of native and non-native insects in temperate and boreal forests across North America and Europe.

We have several international projects and interdisciplinary collaborations that address the impacts of global change on forest insect populations. Our work provides information to forest managers to develop and improve strategies to mitigate pest outbreaks in northern forests.

Our lab trains graduate students at the University of New Brunswick who are funded in part with Discovery Grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

We are always looking for enthusiastic graduate students to join our group!

Importance of our research

We are experiencing unprecedented disturbances in northern forests that will have feedbacks on climate change, with potential deleterious consequences for future generations. We direly need to develop strategies to mitigate future environmental and health problems.

Our work contributes to understanding the processes that generate forest pest outbreaks to improve forecasting and management of future disturbances. Therefore, we are also committed to training the next generation of scientists and forest managers in our research program.