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Brendon Samuels

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PhD Candidate in Biology: Ecology and Evolution, Western University

I am a PhD candidate at Western University doing research on strategies for preventing bird-window collisions. I also work in the nonprofit sector and specialize in community partnerships, civic engagement and advocating for climate resiliency, biodiversity conservation and environmental justice. My interests include species at risk protection, sensory ecology, mitigating urban wildlife conflicts, gardening with native species and litter prevention. I combine community science, creative arts and storytelling to educate the public about actions to live in balance with nature.

Experience

  • –present
    PhD Candidate in Biology: Ecology and Evolution, Western University

Education

  • 2018 
    Western University, Neuroscience
  • 2014 
    University of Guelph, Psychology

Publications

  • 2024
    Community-engaged flood mitigation and ecological restoration on a university campus, Environmental Research: Ecology
  • 2022
    Opening the black box of bird-window collisions: passive video recordings in a residential backyard, PeerJ
  • 2021
    European starlings (sturnus vulgaris) discriminate rhythms by rate, not temporal patterns, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America