TRU researchers awarded $355,000 in grants

“TRU is thrilled with today’s announcement as it builds on TRU’s research capacity and supports the important work of our faculty and students,” Christine Bovis-Cnossen, TRU’s interim president and vice-chancellor says in the release.

This is the largest investment in research from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada this year, and it includes $70 million in new funding announced for this year’s budget.

“The Discovery Grant program is an invaluable resource for scientists in Canada engaged in fundamental research. With the increase in NSERC funding from the Federal Government in this most recent competition, I am already supporting even more students working on important questions in evolution, behaviour, and conservation,” Dr. Matt Reudink, associate professor of biology, says. “I’m incredibly excited about the research my students and I will undertake over the next five years – unravelling connections across seasons and between continents in migratory birds, reconstructing the evolution of fundamental life history traits and behaviours, and understanding how these phenomena interact to shape the lives of birds.”

Grant recipients include Reudink, Dr. Mateen Shaikh, and Dr. Thomas Pypker.

Reudink’s will be used toward examining movement, colour and behaviour. Shaikh’s will look into statistical learning algorithms for high-dimensional non-normally distributed data, and Pypker’s will focus on understanding the feedbacks between canopy structure and hydrologic flow paths.

by Ashley Legassic

TRU researchers awarded $355,000 in grants

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