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外流影片鈥檚 newest Canada Research Chair is Dr. Mark Mallory, a seabird biologist formerly with Environment Canada鈥檚 Canadian Wildlife Service in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Dr. Mallory has been named CRC in Coastal Wetland Ecosystems. Through his research and work, he will promote the restoration and conservation of healthy coastal regions worldwide.

鈥淒r. Mallory is a significant addition to Acadia鈥檚 already outstanding group of faculty researchers working on environmental issues,鈥� said Dr. David MacKinnon, Acadia鈥檚 Dean of Research and Graduate Studies. 鈥淗is research into the effects of climate change on seabirds in Canada鈥檚 North is well regarded and our students and community will benefit from his enthusiasm for environmental preservation and conservation.鈥�

Dr. Mallory earned his B.Sc. in Biology from Queen鈥檚 University in 1987 and both his M.Sc. (鈥�91) and Ph.D. (鈥�09) in Biology from Carleton University. His masters research focused on loons and waterfowl in the Sudbury to Temagami region of Ontario and their responses to ecological changes in lakes and wetlands caused by acid rain. He joined the Canadian Wildlife Service in 1992, where his work ranged from limnology to aquatic invertebrates to small fish, waterfowl and loons. He subsequently helped develop some of the wildlife habitat suitability models used in Canada-U.S. negotiations on air quality. 

In 1999, Dr. Mallory and his wife Carolyn and their three children - Conor, Jessamyn and Olivia - relocated to Canada鈥檚 Arctic to open the Iqaluit office of Environment Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service.  As a seabird biologist, he studied the effects of climate change and pollution on Arctic seabird ecology.  It was during this time that he studied northern fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) for his Ph.D. 

Dr. Mallory built two research stations: one at Cape Vera (Devon Island), and one on a small island near Polar Bear Pass National Wildlife Area for Canadian Wildlife Service research and monitoring. Aside from seabird research, these sites have been the focus of studies on the effects of seabirds moving nutrients and contaminants from the ocean to coastal ponds and wetlands with collaborators at the universities of Ottawa, Alberta, and Queen鈥檚.  During these expeditions, Mark and his colleagues also found dramatic declines in ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea) populations in Canada, which led to the species being listed as endangered in 2009. He and his colleagues and students also found new colonies of the threatened Ross鈥檚 gull (Rhodostethia rosea), and consequently Dr. Mallory serves as the National Recovery Team chair for these two species. 

鈥淚鈥檓 looking forward to living in the Wolfville area and joining the core of research collaborators at Acadia,鈥� said Dr. Mallory. 鈥淭he move from Iqaluit to Wolfville will be a big adjustment for the whole family but I really hope to be able to continue my Arctic work and offer opportunities to other researchers at Acadia to be able to work in the North, while also building on Acadia鈥檚 existing coastal research in the Maritimes. I鈥檓 also looking forward to working with students and drawing on their energy and enthusiasm.鈥�  

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