Jeremy Kerr, University of Ottawa

Research

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Latest funding

Testing a new framework to understand climate change effects on range shifts, phenological change, and metacommunities
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$208,000
Predicting climate and land use change impacts on pollinators across landscapes to continents
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$120,000
Predicting climate and land use change impacts on pollinators across landscapes to continents
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$348,000

All 7 grants and awards

No publications available.

Testing a new framework to understand climate change effects on range shifts, phenological change, and metacommunities

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Kerr, Jeremy

Keywords: biodiversity; climate change; climate variability; macroecology; remote sensing; conservation biology; species distributions

$208,000

Predicting climate and land use change impacts on pollinators across landscapes to continents

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Discovery Grants Program - Accelerator Supplements

Principal investigators: Kerr, Jeremy

$120,000

Predicting climate and land use change impacts on pollinators across landscapes to continents

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Kerr, Jeremy

$348,000

Using global change as a pseudo-experiment to build and test macroecological hypotheses

Principal investigatorNSERC2011Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Kerr, Jeremy

$230,000

Building stronger macroecological theories for global change prediction

Principal investigatorNSERC2008Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Kerr, Jeremy

$67,965

NSERC - CANPOLIN (Canadian Pollination Initiative)

Co-investigatorNSERC2007Research Networks

Principal investigators: Kevan, Peter

$5,278,700

Ecosystem function deficit and its impacts on biotic communities and the distribution of species

Principal investigatorNSERC2003Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Kerr, Jeremy

$100,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Kerr, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Testing a new framework to understand climate change effects on range shifts, phenological change, and metacommunities" (2023), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]