Past Graduate Students
Tyler Wheeldon
Ph.D.
Defended: January 2020
Thesis Title: Population Dynamics of Eastern Coyotes in Southeastern Ontario
Keith Munro
Ph.D.,co-supervised with Dr. Bruce Pond
Defended: October 2019
Thesis Title: White-Tailed Fear: The Human-Created Landscape of Fear and its Effect on White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Behaviour
Courtney Irvine
M.Sc.
Defended: September 2019
Thesis Title: Discriminating grey wolf (Canis lupus) predation events in a multi-prey system in central Saskatchewan
Kaiti Nixon
M.Sc., co-supervised with Dr. Bruce Pond
Defended: March 2015
Thesis Title: Canid predation of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) on Ontario farms: land cover associations and disruptive deterrent testing
Luke Vander Vennen
M.Sc., co-supervised with Dr. John Fryxell
Defended: April 2014
Thesis Title: Daily temporal dynamics of a large mammal predator-prey system
John Benson
Ph.D.
Defended: April 2013
Thesis Title: Hybridization dynamics between wolves and coyotes in central Ontario
Morgan Anderson
M.Sc., co-supervised with Dr. John Fryxell
Defended: April 2012
Thesis Title: Wolf responses to spatial variation in moose density in northern Ontario
Scott Moffatt
M.Sc., co-supervised with Dr. John Fryxell
Defended: April 2012
Thesis Title: Time to event modelling: wolf search efficiency in northern Ontario
Jean Arseneau
M.Sc., co-supervised with Dr. Dennis Murray
Linda Y. Rutledge
Ph.D., co-supervised with Dr. Brad White
Defended: January 2010
Thesis Title: Evolutionary origins, social structure, and hybridization of the eastern wolf (Canis lycaon)
(Please contact us if you would like a copy of Linda's dissertation)
Josh Holloway
M.Sc., co-supervised with Dr. Dennis Murray
Defended: December 2009
Thesis Title: Size dependent resource use of a hybrid wolf (C. lupus X C. lycaon) population in northeast Ontario
Karen Frances Hussey
M.Sc., co-supervised with Dr. Dennis Murray
Defended: November 2009
Thesis Title: Space use patterns of moose (Alces alces) in relation to forest cover in southeastern Ontario, Canada
Karen Loveless
M.Sc.
Defended: September 2009
Thesis Title: Foraging strategies of eastern wolves in relation to migratory prey and hybridization
Stacey Lowe
M.Sc., co-supervised with Dr. Dennis Murray
Defended: May 2009
Thesis Title: Behavioural responses of moose (Alces alces) to ambient temperature: is there evidence for behavioural thermoregulation?
Tyler Wheeldon
M.Sc., co-supervised with Dr. Dennis Murray
Defended: January 2009
Thesis Title: Genetic characterization of Canis populations in the western Great Lakes Region
Ken Mills
M.Sc., co-supervised with Dr. Dennis Murray
Defended: April 2006
Thesis Title: Wolf (Canis lycaon) pup survival, dispersal, and movements in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada