Keen's long-eared bat (Myotis keenii) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 15

Biographical Summaries of the Report Writers

Dave Nagorsen holds a B.Sc. degree from the University of Guelph, and an M.Sc. degree in Zoology from the University of Toronto. He was curatorial assistant in the Mammalogy Department of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto for 10 years and mammal curator at the Royal British Columbia Museum for 20 years. He is a Departmental Associate in the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology at the Royal Ontario Museum, in Toronto. He has a broad interest in mammals. During his career he has conducted mammalian field work and inventories in the Caribbean, and various regions of Canada including the Canadian Shield, Hudson Bay Lowlands, the northern Yukon Territory, and British Columbia. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 published scientific papers and reports, three books, a number of unpublished reports, and many publications for a general audience; he is an associate editor for the Canadian Field-Naturalist. Dave is involved with a number of conservation initiatives including the Vancouver Island Marmot Recovery Team; the Terrestrial Mammals Specialist Group for COSEWIC; and the Rodent Specialist Group, Species Survival Commission of the IUCN.

Doug Burles holds a B.Sc. from the University of Calgary and an M.Sc. in biology from the University of Victoria. He has worked for Parks Canada Agency at various locations in western Canada for over 30 years, and is currently Environmental Assessment Scientist for Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site. During his career he has conducted studies and inventories on large mammals and raptors in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Yukon and British Columbia. His thesis research was carried out on the M. keenii maternity colony at Gandl K’in Gwaayaay, and he continues to study this colony. He has authored or co-authored more than 35 published and unpublished reports. Doug is currently a member of the Queen Charlotte Islands Ermine Recovery Team.

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