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Applications of learning theory to human-bear conflict: the efficacy of aversive conditioning and conditioned taste aversion
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I tested the efficacy of aversive conditioning (AC) and conditioned taste aversion (CTA) on American black bears (Ursus americanus) in Whistler, British Columbia. Black bears subjected to 3-5 day AC programs responded by increasing their wariness toward humans, while control bears habituated. ...
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2015-10-15
SSHRC Awarded IG 2016: Savons-nous mourir au 21e siècle? La fin de vie est aujourd'hui monopolisée par la pratique médicale et le milieu hospitalier, mais ceux-ci sont-il les plus 'hospitaliers' pour accueillir l'expérience radicalement singulière de mourir? Comment faire de celle-ci le vrai...
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2013-10-07
SSHRC Awarded IG 2014: This four year project that will analyse the influential but under-examined feminist periodical Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics. Heresies was a quasi-biannual magazine edited and produced by a collective that included artists, art historians, activists,...
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2020-10-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2021. With this project, I pursue the legacy of influential documentary photographer Lewis Hine, who developed his techniques in the service of his social science teacher role. I examine the historical moments of exchange, influence, or overlap between the worlds of artists and...
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2021-10-09
SSRHC IG awarded 2022: L’histoire des bandes dessinées au Canada à cette problématique des « 2 solitudes ». Les volets francophone et anglophone de la production nationale se sont développés de façon parallèle, et ce sans vraiment tisser de liens. Si plusieurs essais traitent de l’histoire de la...
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09/24/2021
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: Videogames offer tremendous potential for more meaningful interactions with music and sound, but in most cases, the role that sound and music plays is subservient to the story or game world, rather than being a point of exploration in and of itself. What if composers...
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Aversive conditioning of grizzly bears produces high probabilities of retreat from human-bear conflict locations
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Parks and protected areas provide important refugia for source populations of threatened grizzly bears in Alberta, where high human-use and recreation can cause human-bear conflict. Many jurisdictions in Alberta and beyond use hazing and aversive conditioning (hereafter AC) programs to deter...
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Aversive conditioning on horse back: A management alternative for grassland systems threatened by sedentary elk populations
DownloadFall 2009
Loss of migratory behaviour in ungulates has been observed worldwide and invites new tools for managing the habitat degradation that results from these sedentary populations. We assessed use of aversive conditioning on horseback as a means of reducing grazing pressure and restoring migratory...
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2013-10-01
SSHRC Awarded IG 2014: This project will study the development of Bertrand Russell's philosophy during the ten most productive years of his career as analytic philosophy and symbolic logic were being founded as academic disciplines. The project will include the letters to Russell from two of...
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2018-10-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2019: The research we propose builds upon work completed under SSHRC IG 435-2012-0140, Apachean Origins: New Explorations of the Canadian Heritage of A.D. 13th Century Dene at Promontory Point, Utah. That work focused on the astonishing array of perishable artifacts excavated in...