From 2006 to 2011, Dawn led the Canadian section of the International Polar Year project, GAPS: Gas, Arctic Peoples and Security. She spent her 2011–12 sabbatical as a Bullard Fellow at Harvard Forest, Harvard University, and as a Visiting Researcher in the Biodiversity Institute, Oxford University. In 2018, she was a visiting professor in Environmental Studies, Visva Bharati University, West Bengal, India. She is the Fulbright Canada Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yale University for 2024-25 (embargoed as of April 26, 2024)
Dawn wears many academic hats but is, at heart, a grass biologist. Forty years ago, she cut her botanical teeth on the coast of Hudson Bay, spending five years becoming a world expert on snow goose poop while studying sub-arctic salt-marsh nitrogen cycles. Dawn has extensive field experience in grasslands, forests, and tundra. Her Zoology doctorate from Oxford University looked at sheep grazing behaviour. Dawn’s many scholarly publications include the edited volume, “Environmental Change and Human Security in the Arctic”, and the monograph, “The Ecology and Control of Introduced Plants..
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Dawn is a biology professor in York University's Faculty of Science. She directed York’s Institute for Research and Innovation (IRIS) in Sustainability for seven years, receiving the university’s Sustainability Leadership Award and the title of University Professor.
Dawn wears many academic hats but is, at heart, a grass biologist. Forty years ago, she cut her botanical teeth on the coast of Hudson Bay, spending five years becoming a world expert on snow goose poop while studying sub-arctic salt-marsh nitrogen cycles. Dawn has extensive field experience in grasslands, forests, and tundra. Her Zoology doctorate from Oxford University looked at sheep grazing behaviour. Dawn’s many scholarly publications include the edited volume, “Environmental Change and Human Security in the Arctic”, and the monograph, “The Ecology and Control of Introduced Plants.
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