Julie Lee-Yaw, University of Ottawa

Research

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Latest funding

Global Change Ecology and Macroecology
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$215,000
Testing ecological and evolutionary hypotheses for geographic range limits
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$140,000

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Global Change Ecology and Macroecology

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Lee-Yaw, Julie

Keywords: evolutionary ecology; geographic distributions; range limits; conservation genomics; amphibians

$215,000

Testing ecological and evolutionary hypotheses for geographic range limits

Principal investigatorNSERC2020Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Lee-Yaw, Julie

Keywords: geographic range limits; species' distributions; niche limits; adaptation; gene flow; species interactions; amphibians

$140,000

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 Lee-Yaw, 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 "Global Change Ecology and Macroecology" (2022), 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]