Joe.nocera@unb.ca
Professor
Forestry and Environmental Management
University of New Brunswick
Canada
Biography
Dr. Joseph Nocera joined the Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Management in July 2016 as an Assistant Professor with focus on issues of wildlife management. Dr. Nocera got his BSc in Biology from Connecticut State, his MSc in Biology from Acadia University, and his PhD in Biology, focusing on grassland birds, from UNB. From 2008 to 2016 he was a Research Scientist in Species-at-Risk with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources & Forestry, and a regular graduate faculty member at Trent University. These dual roles gave him the experience to ensure his students’ and his research fill a gap in fundamental wildlife science and serve an applied purpose by entering the policy stream. Many aspects of his work have defined new policy for several levels of government. Dr. Nocera’s research takes an integrative approach to cross-disciplinary questions in population ecology by modelling wildlife-habitat relationships from a management perspective. He has used field experiments, comparative and meta-analyses, and behavioural, ecological, and physiological datasets to address these questions. His focus has been on field studies of birds (e.g., aerial insectivores and woodpeckers) and mammals (e.g., American badgers, eastern moles).
Research Interest
Forestry and Environmental Management
