Laura Pollock

Laura Pollock is an Assistant Professor in quantitative ecology at McGill University. Her research addresses various topics in ecology, biogeography, and conservation, but she is increasingly drawn to the pursuit of making sense of large-scale biodiversity patterns via statistical models. She has worked in a variety of places and continents—most recently in France with Wilfried Thuiller on a Marie Curie project CLEF ‘Conserving the Legacy of Evolution into the Future’. Prior, she worked in Australia at the University of Melbourne as part of the National Environmental Research Program (NERP Environmental Decisions Hub). Earlier, she completed her PhD with Pete Vesk studying the coolest trees (eucalypts, in case you weren’t aware of that fact), and before that in lowland swamps and marshes of the Gulf of Mexico with Loretta Battaglia, and before that in her own backyard—the mountains of Wyoming with Kate Dwire.