Fawnsfoot (Truncilla donaciformis) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 15

Biographical Summary of Report Writer

Dr. Todd J. Morris is a Species at Risk Research Biologist with the Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. He has a B.Sc (Hons.) in Zoology from the University of Western Ontario (1993), a Diploma in Honors Standing in Ecology and Evolution from the University of Western Ontario (1994), an M.Sc. in Aquatic Ecology from the University of Windsor (1996) and a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Toronto (2002). Dr. Morris’s research interests focus on the biotic and abiotic factors structuring aquatic ecosystems and he has worked with a wide variety of aquatic taxa ranging from zooplankton to predatory fishes. He has been studying Ontario’s freshwater mussel fauna since 1993, has authored three recovery strategies addressing eight Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC)-listed freshwater mussel species, chairs the Ontario Freshwater Mussel Recovery Team and is a member of the Molluscs Specialist Subcommittee of COSEWIC.

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