UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands. Postdoctoral Felow, Section of Population Biology, 1999-2000. Advisor, Dr. Maurice Sabelis.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS, Davis, California. Doctor of Philosophy in Population Biology, May 1999. Advisor: Dr. Richard Karban. Organization for Tropical Studies Course Tropical Biology: An Ecological Approach (1995).
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Master of Arts in Conservation Biology, May 1994. Advising committee: Drs. Brenda Casper, W. John Smith, and Neil Shubin.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bachelor of Arts in Biology, Magna Cum Laude, May 1994.
Premier’s Research Excellence Award, Ontario Ministry of Energy, Science and Technology
Phi Beta Kappa (elected)
ARCS Scholar (elected)
Buell Award, Ecological Society of America (honorable mention, 1998)
Young Investigator Award, American Society of Naturalists (1999)
Merton Love Award for an outstanding thesis in Ecology and Evolution (U.C. Davis, 1999)
NSF Career Award (2004)
Ecological Society of America Geroge Mercer Award for outstanding paper in ecology (2006)