Mary Catherine Martin | |
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Born | March 28, 1949 |
Nationality | Canadian |
Occupation | Ornithologist |
Known for | Cavity Using Wildlife and Mountain Avifauna |
Academic background | |
Education | B.Sc. Biology (1970), University of Prince Edward Island, M.Sc. Zoology (1973) University of Alberta, Ph.D. Biology (1985) Queen's University |
Thesis | The utility of bi-parental care in Willow Ptarmigan: ecological and evolutionary considerations (1985) |
Doctoral advisor | Fred Cooke |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Conservation biology/ornithology |
Institutions | University of British Columbia Environment and Climate Change Canada |
Website | https://profiles.forestry.ubc.ca/person/kathy-martin/ |
Kathy Martin is a Canadian ornithologist who is an expert on arctic and alpine grouse and ptarmigan, and on tree cavity-nesting vertebrates.[1][2][3][4] She is a professor in the Faculty of Forestry[5] at the University of British Columbia and was a senior research scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada.[6]
Martin, who trained in ornithology, is past President[7] (April 2020-August 2026) of the American Ornithological Society. Martin continues to be active in Canada's Conservation Biology research and higher education community.[8] In the 1990s she represented Canada on the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN Species Survival Commission for grouse (galliformes). During the 2000s, Martin served on the council of the American Ornithologists Union (2003–07), and chaired the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Ecology and Evolution Grant Committee.[8]
At the national level, Martin participated in early discussions about the formation of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution in 2006, and was a founding member of the organization, later serving on its Governing Council (2008-11[9]). In 1996, Martin and her colleagues received The Wildlife Society's Wildlife Publication award, for their paper "Impact of food and predation on the snowshoe hare cycle."[10][11] In 1992, when she was an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, Scarborough College, Martin developed and taught one of the earliest courses in Conservation Biology in Canada: C65S.
Martin founded and directed two primary, long-term research programs in the Americas. The first, on the life history variation and ecology of alpine birds, began in 1980 and has expanded to sites in Australia, while the second, examining the structure and function of cavity-nesting vertebrate communities,[12][13] commenced in 1995 and expanded to other sites across North and South America.[14] The edited volume, Ecology and Conservation of Mountain Birds ISBN 978-1-108-94042-9 will be published by Cambridge University Press in late summer 2023.[15]
Kathy Martin is a native of Prince Edward Island, Canada. She received her undergraduate degree in Biology from the University of Prince Edward Island in 1970.[16] She then completed an MSc at the University of Alberta, Edmonton in 1973,[citation needed] and a PhD at Queen's University, Kingston 1985, with geneticist Fred Cooke.[citation needed]
Following the completion of her doctorate on Willow Ptarmigan ecology, Martin received a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta (1985–1988).[6]
Martin founded and edited the first 40 issues of the Prince Edward Island Natural History society's newsletter.[17] In 1977, she wrote the guide Island Woodland Plants.[18]
In 1981, Martin wrote the monograph Watershed Red,[19] about the natural history of the Dunk River Watershed.
Martin was as an assistant professor at the Université de Sherbrooke from 1988–89, then an NSERC University Research Fellow and assistant professor in life sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough campus from 1989–1992.[citation needed] In 1993, Martin assumed a joint appointment with the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia and Environment and Climate Change Canada. Martin retired from the Canadian Federal Government in December 2020, and remains an emeritus scientist.[citation needed]
Martin has published over 200 journal articles and book chapters.[20]