Rate My Professor Stephen Lougheed

Stephen C. Lougheed is Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies and holds the Baillie Family Chair in Conservation Biology at Queen’s University. He also serves as Director of the Queen’s University Biological Station. His research integrates genomics, spatial ecology, experiments, and modeling to investigate the origins and maintenance of vertebrate biodiversity across landscapes, species ranges, and assemblages, as well as human impacts on species of conservation concern. Fieldwork has taken him across the Americas from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic, and he leads or co-leads major projects funded by Genome Canada and the New Frontiers in Research Fund focused on northern species management in collaboration with Inuit communities and the development of eDNA and metabarcoding tools for aquatic biodiversity monitoring.