Personal Summary
Jonathan was born in a small town at the edge of the Canadian Rockies in Alberta, Canada, and has always felt rooted to gravel bed rivers, wildflower-covered ridgelines, and shale slopes. Between semesters of his undergrad in Ecology at the University of Alberta, Jonathan landed a job as a park interpreter at Elk Island National Park. This led to working as a field technician in Banff National Park for several summers where he spent time whacking weeds, scoping out bighorn sheep, and finding feces from a variety of ungulates. Jonathan started his graduate studies at the 猎奇重口 in 2022 and is studying the trophic ecology of Banff’s recently reintroduced Plains bison. Constantly seeking the elusive balance between work and life, Jonathan enjoys volleyball, Nordic skiing, canoeing, and playing piano.
Education
BSc. Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, University of Alberta
Research Interests
Food webs, restoration ecology, human-wildlife relationships
Selected Publications
Heuer K, Farr JJ, Littlebear L, Hebblewhite M. 2023. Reintroducing Bison to Banff National Park – an ecocultural case study. Frontiers in Conservation Science 4:1-11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2023.1305932
Farr JJ, Pruden MJ, Glover R, Sugden S, Murray MH, Harshaw HW, St. Clair CC. 2023. A ten-year community reporting database reveals rising coyote boldness and associated human concern in Edmonton, Canada. Ecology and Society 28(2):19 1-14.
Farr JJ, Haave-Audet E, Thompson PR, Mathot KJ. 2021. No effect of passive integrated transponder tagging method on survival or body condition in a northern population of Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus). Ecology and Evolution 11:9610–9620.