Andrea Smith
Ph. D. Biology (Queen’s University)
M. Sc. Biology (Queen’s University)
B. Sc. Biology and Environmental Studies (Trent University)
Selected Publications
Smith, A. L., D. R. Bazely and N. Yan. Submitted. Missing the boat on invasive species: a review of post-secondary curricula in Canada. Canadian Journal of Higher Education.
Bolton, M., A. L. Smith, E. Gómez-Díaz, V. L. Friesen, R. Medeiros, J. Bried, J. L. Roscales and R. W. Furness. 2008. Monteiro’s storm-petrel Oceanodroma monteiroi: a new species from the Azores. Ibis 150: 717-727.
Smith, A. L., and R. J. Robertson. 2008. Seasonal changes to arthropod abundance in successional forests of the Yucatan Peninsula, with implications for overwintering forest birds. Ornitologia Neotropical 19 (1): 81-95.
Friesen, V. L., A. L. Smith, E. Gómez-Díaz, M. Bolton, R. W. Furness, J. González-Solís and L. Monteiro. 2007. Sympatric speciation by allochrony in a seabird. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (47): 18589-18594.
Smith, A. L. and V. L. Friesen. 2007. Differentiation of sympatric populations of band-rumped storm petrel in the Galapagos Islands: an examination of genetics, morphology, and vocalizations. Molecular Ecology 16(8): 1593-1603.
Smith, A. L., L. Monteiro, O. Hasegawa and V. L. Friesen. 2007. Global phylogeography of the band-rumped storm-petrel (Oceanodroma castro; Procellariiformes: Hydrobatidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43: 755-773.
Smith, A., J. Salgado Ortiz and R.J. Robertson. 2001. Distribution patterns of migrant and resident birds in successional forests of the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico. Biotropica 33: 153- 170.
Biography
Andrea Smith is a post-doctoral researcher at IRIS. She is interested in how scientific knowledge can be successfully translated into environmental policy. Since joining IRIS in 2008, Andrea has been investigating Canada’s preparedness to deal with the inter-disciplinary threats of invasive species. Her work to date has focused on how effectively education and public policy address the challenges of invasive species. Andrea completed a curriculum review of post-secondary education on invasive species in Canada which is currently under review at the Canadian Journal of Higher Education. Andrea also conducted a comparative policy review of Ontario and Minnesota’s efforts to prevent and control invasive species. Andrea is currently carrying out a knowledge synthesis of the interactive effects of climate change and invasive species for the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. Her work in this area will focus on projected range changes of invasive species under climate change, as well as biofuels as a potential source of new invasive species, and what these changes will mean for the environment, economy and society in Canada.
Andrea received her M. Sc. in Conservation Biology and her Ph. D. in Evolutionary Genetics at Queen’s University. Her Masters research examined the impacts of agricultural land use in the Yucatan Peninsula on migrant and resident bird populations. For her doctoral dissertation, Andrea studied seabird population differentiation and phylogeography. Her work led to the identification of a new species of storm-petrel (Monteiro’s storm-petrel), and provided the first evidence of sympatric speciation in a seabird.
Andrea has worked as a regional coordinator, policy analyst and writer for Ontario Nature, a researcher for the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, and as a field biologist for the Canadian Wildlife Service, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U. S. National Biological Survey. Andrea has conducted field research in temperate, arctic and tropical regions, including projects in Haida Gwaii, Hudson Bay, the Mojave Desert, the Yucatan Peninsula, and the Galapagos Islands.
