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Open Positions

We welcome inquiries from prospective students and collaborators at all career stages. If you are interested in joining the lab, please contact Dr. Riva by email at federicoriva@cunet.carleton.ca explaining why you are interested in joining the team and which research questions you foresee answering in your research.

PhD opening: Managing Landscapes to Sustain Biodiversity

This project aims to provide guidance for designing landscapes that sustain and promote biodiversity. Relevant themes include habitat fragmentation, connectivity, and heterogeneity, and how these factors influence optimal area-based conservation strategies for protecting species and ecosystems. The project may leverage datasets compiled at local, provincial (Ontario), continental, or global scales, depending on the student’s interests and the specific research questions developed, and builds on a long tradition of related work conducted at GLEL. Supervision: Dr. Federico Riva, in collaboration with Drs. Lenore Fahrig and Amanda Martin.

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MSc opening: Documenting biodiversity with the Nunavik Sentinels program

This project aims to better understand how the Nunavik Sentinels program (https://espacepourlavie.ca/en/nunavik-sentinels-one-kind-project) has contributed to biodiversity discovering and monitoring across northern Canada. The position will contribute to an exciting program that merges conservation research and education across multiple northern communities in Canada, and will be co-developed with Dr. Maxim Larrivée, Director of the Montreal Insectarium. The selected student will take on the task of evaluating progress and discoveries after several years of activities, identifying challenges and opportunities while synthesizing the major breakthrough occurred since the beginning of the program. The project can include fieldwork activities and is ideal for students with a strong interest in biodiversity science and socio-ecological systems. Applicants with interest in GIS tools and biodiversity science are strongly encouraged to apply.

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Lab Culture & Values

We strive to maintain the supportive and intellectually stimulating research environment of GLEL. Our lab culture is grounded in a few core principles (see Resources for more details on lab policies and standards):

  • Lab philosophy — We work on questions for which we truly do not know the answer. We are fully committed to open, reproducible, and transparent research practices.
  • Equity, diversity, and inclusion — We welcome people of all backgrounds, identities, and abilities. We strongly believe that science is a collective endeavour, and we actively seek interdisciplinary partnerships and value diverse perspectives.
  • Mentoring and work-life balance — The growth of every lab member is guided depending on different career goals, with different strategies for students interested in academia, government, or the private sector. We value independent thinking and support healthy ways to combine private life with academic responsibilities.

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Department of Biology
Carleton University
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Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada