Peter will begin a one-year postdoctoral position working in collaboration with Colleen Cassady St. Clair at UAlberta, alongside Parks Canada and Alberta Parks. He will be studying how grizzly bears and wolves move in response to the presence of humans in the Canmore area, with hopes of informing policy about how trails should be managed and designed in the area.
After completing a year in the St. Clair Lab, Peter will begin the two-year Liber Ero postdoctoral fellowship studying southern resident killer whales in the Pacific Ocean. He will be supervised by a team of biologists at Simon Fraser University, Dalhousie University, and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), and will be spending most of those two years at SFU.
Peter Thompson completed his PhD. degree in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta. He was co-supervised by Mark Lewis and Andrew Derocher.
Peter graduated from the University of Maryland in May 2019 with a B.S. in Mathematics.
He is interested in a wide array of quantitative problems regarding animal movement, including spatial memory.