Laura Graham

Dr. Laura Graham is a professor in the Biology Department at the College of New Caledonia. She has a long history working with wildlife, starting as a zoo keeper in Ontario and then continuing on in research at the Smithsonian Institution and various facilities and post-secondary institutions back in Canada. Her research focuses on developing and applying non-invasive methods of assessing physiological function in wildlife species to facilitate their welfare and management. She has done research on everything from Puerto Rican Crested Toads to elephants and for the past several years has also been working with the recovery group for the Vancouver Island marmot (see www.wrgconservation.org for research highlights). She is currently working on applying the non-invasive endocrine methods she developed for zoo wildlife management to their free-ranging conspecifics in order to understand their physiological responses to anthropogenic disturbances. Part of this research will be taking place in the College of New Caledonia's Research Forest where camera trap surveys are regularly done. We are currently focussed on moose and black bear physiology in the CNC Research Forest studies but may expand beyond these two species in the future. The CNC Research Forest team are interested in research collaborations and sharing camera trap data.