For the second time in her career, Dr. Lenore Fahrig has been聽awarded a Discovery Accelerators Supplements (DAS) Program award for her research project titled聽Predicting the scale of landscape context effects: How big is a landscape?

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council’s DAS Program awards additional resources to 125 researchers per year to support high calibre, transformative research programs.

Each award is valued at $120,000 over three years. Aimed at advancing research programs, these awards can be used for such things as expanding research teams, or investing in state-of-the-art equipment to further stimulate progress of their studies.

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Each year the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs and the Office of the Vice-President (Research and International)聽host the awards which聽recognize faculty who render exceptional service to graduate students as supervisors and research mentors.聽The effect of such faculty on the careers of students is frequently transformational.

Testimonials from her students were key to her nomination and subsequent confirmation. They included:

Lenore has really fostered a unique and friendly lab environment with annual traditions that have gone on for years. These traditions carried out by Lenore are聽what make a graduate student鈥檚 experience such a pleasure, creating an environment that is not only stimulating and supportive but one that also has a聽sense of community, fostering long-lasting friendships and future collaborations.

Her magic is in the atmosphere. Instead of counting the hours students spend at their desks or standing over them as they work, she invites them to add to the ongoing academic conversation. This enriched conversation takes place in the daily lunches she attends, the weekly discussions she has instituted, the regular potlucks she hosts, the聽annual camp-outs she organizes, and, of course, the pub visits she encourages. Every lab member is invited to use these events, especially the lab discussions, as opportunities to share and improve their ideas.

Her pleasant and cheery disposition makes her easily approachable and her brilliance makes her aid and suggestions highly valuable. Students feel like they are a priority with Dr. Fahrig and, as such, she develops excellent relationships with her students.

Working with Dr. Fahrig and seeing her effects on others, as well as knowing the benefits I have gained from her mentorship, have given me a model for how to be a successful and effective supervisor. Thus Dr. Fahrig’s supervision has not only improved my research skills, but also has shaped the way I will approach supervision of students in the future.

Lenore Fahrig is the ideal academic mentor. She has very sharp critical-mind that never failed to find the flaw in my logic or in the details of the analytical approach. At the same聽time, she is never out of sight of the broad-scale context of the work and excels at helping her students see how their work fits (and could/should fit) into that bigger picture. She is also鈥攁nd this is a rare gift鈥攁ble to apply those critical skills in a thoroughly constructive and sensitive way that nurtures the minds and souls of her students.

Lenore Fahrig is an excellent mentor of graduate students. She has provided rigorous and detail-oriented oversight to a host of students over the years, while maintaining an open聽and warm environment where people are free to explore important and relevant concepts in ecology.

The Award for Distinguished Landscape Ecologist is given for distinguished scientific contribution to the field of landscape ecology.

The intent of this award is to specifically recognize those unique individuals whose thinking and writing have helped to shape the field of landscape ecology. This award highlights those scholars whose scientific endeavors pervade our discipline and its continuing development.

This award is ordinarily given for outstanding scientific achievement over a period of a decade or more, and it is the most prestigious honor bestowed by the US-IALE.

One purpose of this study is to establish and investigate policies and certain practices that would enable farmers to keep the same level of agricultural output whilst enhancing biodiversity. Examining these policies allows the evaluation of their efficacy on maintaining or improving biodiversity on farmlands and agriculture sites.