CV JENNIFER SUNDAY

Assistant Professor | William Dawson Scholar website: jennsunday.weebly.com

Department of Biology twitter: @jennsunday
McGill University email: [email protected]
Montreal, Quebec

RESEARCH POSITIONS
2019 - William Dawson Scholar, McGill University
2018 - Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, McGill University
2018 - Research Affiliate, Hakai Institute, British Columbia
2017 - 2018 Research Associate, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs,
University of Washington
2013 - 2017 Biodiversity Post-doctoral Fellow, Biodiversity Research Center,
University of British Columbia

EDUCATION
2006 – 2013 PhD in Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Canada
1997 – 2002 BSc in Ecology with Honours, University of British Columbia, Canada

HONOURS AND AWARDS

2021-2023 Early Career Research Fellow, Ecology Society of America
2020-2022 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Ocean Sciences
2019-2024 William Dawson Scholar, McGill University
2020-2021 Top 1% cited researcher in field distinction by Clarivate
2017 Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Research Prize, University of British Columbia
2014 Early Career Award, Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
2013 Raymond B. Huey Award in Ecology and Evolution, Society for Integrative
and Comparative Biology

PUBLICATIONS
h-index = 30, top 1% cited researcher in field (2020, Clarivate), 10 Highly Cited papers (ISI
Web of Science), three cover features; four papers recommended by the Faculty of 1000.
* indicates trainees.
1. Bennett, J.M., Sunday, J.M., P. Calosi, F. Villalobos, B. Martínez, R. Molina-
Venegas, M.B. Araújo, A.C. Algar, S. Clusella-Trullas, B.A. Hawkins, S.A. Keith, I.
Kühn, C. Rahbek, L. Rodríguez, A. Singer, I. Morales-Castilla, M. Ángel Olalla-Tárraga.
The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth. Nature Communications. 12, 1198
2021. Web of Science highly cited.
2. Srivastava, D.S., L. Coristine, A.L. Angert, . Bontrager, S.L. Amundrud, J.L. Williams,
A.C.Y. Yeung, D.R de Zwaan, P.L Thompson, S.N. Aitken, J.M. Sunday, M.I. O'Connor,
J. Whitton, N.E.M. Brown, C.D. MacLeod, L.W. Parfrey, J.R. Bernhardt, J. Carrillo,
C.D.G. Harley, P.T. Martone, B.G. Freeman, M. Tseng, S.D. Donner. 2021. Wildcards in
climate change biology. Ecological Monographs 91 (4).

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3. Buxton, R.T., Bennett, J.R., Reid, A.J., Shulman, C., Cooke, S.J., Francis, C.M., Nyboer,
E., Pritchard, G., Binley, A., Avery-Gomm, S., Ban, N.C., Beazley, K.F., Bennett, E.,
Blight, L.K., Bortolotti, L.E., Camfield, A.F., Gadallah, Z., Jacob, A.L., Naujokaitis-
Lewis, I., Raudsepp-Hearne, C., Roche, D.G., Soulard, F., Stralberg, D., Sadler, K.D.,
Solarik, K.A., Ziter, C.D., Brandt, J., McKindsey, C., Greenwood, D.A., Boxall, P.C.,
Ngolah, C.F., Chan, K.M.A., Lapen, D., Poser, S., Girard, J., DiBacco, C., Hayne, S.,
Orihel, D., Lewis, D.W., Littlechild, D., Marshall, S.J., McDermott, L., Whitlow, R.,
Browne, D., Sunday, J., and Smith, P.A. 2021. Key information needs to move
from knowledge to action for biodiversity conservation in Canada. Biological
Conservation 256, 108983.
4. Bernhardt J.R., M.I. O'Connor, J.M. Sunday, A. Gonzalez. 2020. Life in fluctuating
environments. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375 (1814), 20190454.
Recommended by Faculty of 1000
5. Sunday, J.M. 2020. When do fish succumb to heat? Science 369 (6499), 35-36
6. Sunday, J.M. 2020. The pace of biodiversity change in a warming climate. Nature 580
(7804), 460-461.
7. Pérez-Jvostov, F., W.J. Sutherland, R.D.H. Barrett, C.A. Brown, J.A. Cardille, S.J. Cooke,
M.E. Cristescu, N.F. St-Gelais, G.F. Fussmann, K. Griffiths, A.P. Hendry, N.W.R.
Lapointe, E.A. Nyboer, R.L. Pentland, A.J. Reid, A. Ricciardi, J.M. Sunday, I. Gregory-
Eaves. 2020. Horizon scan of conservation issues for inland waters in Canada. Canadian
Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 77(5) 869-881.
8. Pinsky, M.L., A.M. Eikeset, D.J. McCauley, J.L. Payne, J.M. Sunday. 2019. Greater
vulnerability to warming of marine versus terrestrial ectotherms. Nature. 569: 108– 111.
Cover feature, covered in News and Views. Web of Science highly cited.
9. Sunday, J.M., J.M. Bennett, P. Calosi, S. Clusella-Trullas, S. Gravel*, A.L. Hargreaves,
F. Leiva, W. Verberk, M. Ángel Olalla-Tárraga, I. Morales-Castilla. 2019. Thermal
tolerance patterns across latitude and elevation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society B. 374 (1778), 20190036.
10. J.B. Harrison, J.M. Sunday, S.M. Rogers. Predicting the fate of eDNA in the environment
and implications for studying biodiversity. 2019. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286
(1915), 20191409. Web of Science highly cited.
11. Morley, S.A., L.S. Peck, J.M. Sunday, S. Heiser, A.E. Bates. 2019. Physiological
acclimation and persistence of ectothermic species under extreme heat events. Global
Ecology and Biogeography. 28 (7): 1018-1037.
12. D’Aloia, C.C., I. Naujokaitis-Lewis, C. Blackford, C. Chu, J. Curtis, E. Darling, F.
Guichard, S. Leroux, A. Camargo Martensen, B. Rayfield, J.M. Sunday, A. Xuereb, M-J.
Fortin. 2019. Coupled networks of permanent protected areas and dynamic conservation
areas for biodiversity conservation under climate change. Frontiers in Ecology and
Evolution. 7, 27
13. Donelson, J.M., J.M. Sunday, W.Figueira, J.D. Gaitan-Espitia, A.J. Hobday, C.R.
Johnson, J.M. Leis, S. Ling, D. Marshall, J.M. Pandolfi, G. Pecl, G.G. Rodgers, D.J.
Booth and P.L. Munday. 2019. Understanding interactions between plasticity, adaptation
and range shifts in response to marine environmental change. Philosophical Transactions
of the Royal Society B. 374: 20180186.

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14. Bernhardt, J.R., J.M. Sunday, P.L. Thompson, M.I. O'Connor. 2018. Nonlinear averaging
of thermal experience predicts population growth rates in a thermally variable
environment. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 285 (1886), 20181076.
15. Bernhardt, J.R., J.M. Sunday, M.I. O'Connor. 2018. Metabolic theory and the
temperature-size rule explain the temperature dependence of population carrying capacity.
The American Naturalist. 192 (6). Recommended by Faculty of 1000
16. Freeman, B.J., J.A. Lee‐Yaw, J.M. Sunday, A.L. Hargreaves. 2018. Expanding, shifting,
and shrinking: The impact of global warming on species’ elevational distributions. Global
Ecology and Biogeography. 27 (11).
17. Bennett, J.M., P. Calosi, S. Clusella-Trullas, B. Martínez, J.M. Sunday, A.C. Algar, M.B.
Araújo, B.A. Hawkins, S. Keith, I. Kühn, C. Rahbek, L. Rodríguez, A. Singer, F.
Villalobos, M. Ángel Olalla-Tárraga, I. Morales-Castilla. 2018. GlobTherm: a global
database on thermal tolerances for aquatic and terrestrial organisms. Nature Scientific
Data. 5: 180022.
18. Sunday, J.M. 2018. Survival of the finfish. Nature Climate Change. 7 (10): 692.
19. Pecl, G.T., M.B. Araújo, J.D. Bell, J. Blanchard, T.C. Bonebrake, I-Ching Che, T.D.
Clark, R.Colwell, F. Danielsen, B. Evengård, L. Falconi, S. Ferrier, S. Frusher, R.A.
Garcia, A.J. Hobday, C. Janion-Scheepers, M.A. Jarzyna, S. Jennings, J. Lenoir, H.I.
Linnetved, V.Y. Martin, P. C. McCormack, J. McDonald, N.J. Mitchell, T. Mustonen,
J.M. Pandolfi, N. Pettorelli, E. Popova, Sharon A. Robinson, B.R. Scheffers, J.D. Shaw,
C.J. B. Sorte, J.M. Strugnell, J.M. Sunday, M.-N. Tuanmu, A. Vergés, C. Villanueva,
T.Wernberg, E. Wapstra, S. E. Williams. 2017. Biodiversity redistribution under climate
change: impacts on ecosystems and human well-being. Science. 355:6332, eaai9214. Web
of Science highly cited.
20. Osmond, M.M., M. Barbour, J. Bernhardt, M. Pennel, J.M. Sunday, M.I. O'Connor. 2017.
Warming induced changes to body size stabilize consumer-resource dynamics. The
American Naturalist, 189 (6). Cover feature
21. Sunday, J.M., K.E. Fabricius, K.J. Kroeker, K.M. Anderson, N.E. Brown, J.P. Barry,
S.D. Connell, S. Dupont, B. Gaylord, J.M. Hall-Spencer, T. Klinger, Marco Milazzo, P.L.
Munday, B.D. Russell, E. Sanford, V. Thiyagarajan, M.L.H. Vaughan, S.Widdicombe,
and C.D.G. Harley. 2017. Ocean acidification can mediate biodiversity shifts by changing
biogenic habitat. Nature Climate Change. 7(1): 81-85. ISI highly cited.
22. Patiño, S., C.C. Keever, J.M. Sunday, I. Popovic*, M. Byrne, M.W. Hart. 2016. Sperm
bindin divergence under sexual selection and concerted evolution in sea stars. Molecular
Biology and Evolution, msw081.
23. Sunday, J.M., G.T. Pecl, S. Frusher, A.J. Hobday, N. Hill, N.J. Holbrook, G.J. Edgar, R.
Stuart-Smith, N. Barrett, T. Wernberg, R.A. Watson, D.A. Smale, E.A. Fulton, D.
Slawinski, M. Feng, B.T. Radford, P.A. Thompson, A.E. Bates. 2015. Species traits and
climate velocity explain range shifts in an ocean warming hotspot. Ecology Letters.18(9):
944-953. ISI highly cited.
24. Bates A.E., T.J. Bird, R.D. Stuart‐Smith, T. Wernberg, J.M. Sunday, N.S. Barrett, G.J.
Edgar, S. Frusher, A.J. Hobday, G.T. Pecl, D.A. Smale, M. McCarthy. 2015.
Distinguishing geographical range shifts from artefacts of detectability and sampling
effort. Diversity and Distributions. 21(1): 13-22.

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25. Gaylord, B., K.J. Kroeker, J.M. Sunday, K.M. Anderson, J.P. Barry, N.E. Brown, S.D.
Connel, S. Dupont, K.E. Fabricius, J.M. Hall-Spencer, T. Klinger, M. Milazzo, P.L.
Munday, B.D. Russel, E. Sanford, S. J. Schreiber, V. Thiyagarajan. 2015. Ocean
acidification through the lens of ecological theory. Ecology. 96(1): 3-15. ISI highly cited.
26. Sunday, J.M., A.E. Bates, M.R. Kearney, R.K. Colwell, N.K. Dulvy, J.T. Longino, R.B.
Huey. 2014. Thermal-safety margins and the necessity of thermoregulatory behavior
across latitude and elevation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(15):
5610-5615. ISI highly cited.
27. Sunday, J.M., P. Calosi, S. Dupont, P. Munday, J. Stillman, T. Reusch. 2014. Evolution
in an acidifying ocean. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 29: 117-125. Web of Science
highly cited.
28. Sunday, J.M., W. Palen, M. Foreman, I. Popovic*, M.W. Hart. 2014. Oceanographic
circulation predicts low larval dispersal and observed genetic structure along a complex
coastline. Molecular Ecology, 23 (20): 5036–5047.
29. Bates, A.E., G.T. Pecl, S. Frusher, A.J. Hobday, T. Wernberg, D.A. Smale, J.M. Sunday,
N.A. Hill, N.K. Dulvy, R.K. Colwell, N.J. Holbrook, E.A. Fulton, D. Slawinski, M. Feng,
G.J. Edgar, B.T. Radford, P.A. Thompson, R.A. Watson. 2014. Defining and observing
stages of climate-mediated range shifts in marine systems. Global Environmental Change.
26: 27-38. Web of Science highly cited.
30. Hart, M.W., J.M. Sunday, I. Popovic*, K.J. Learning, C.M. Konrad. 2014. Incipient
speciation of sea star populations by adaptive gamete recognition coevolution. Evolution,
68 (5): 1294-1305.
31. Sunday, J.M. and M.W. Hart. Sea star populations diverge by positive selection at a
sperm-egg compatibility locus. 2013. Ecology and Evolution. 3(3): 640–654.
32. Sunday, J.M., A.E. Bates, N.K. Dulvy. 2012. Thermal tolerance and the redistribution of
animals. Nature Climate Change. 2: 686–690.
Cover feature, Recommended by Faculty of 1000, Web of Science highly cited.
33. Sunday, J.M., R.N. Crim, C.D. Harley, M.W. Hart. 2011. Quantifying rates of
evolutionary adaptation in response to ocean acidification. PLOSOne. 6(8).
34. Sunday, J.M., A.E. Bates, N.K. Dulvy. 2011. Global analysis of thermal tolerance and
latitude in ectotherms. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 278, 1823–1830.
Recommended by Faculty of 1000, 2nd most cited article in PRSB in 2011, Web of
Science highly cited.
35. Crim, RN, J.M. Sunday, C.D. Harley. 2011. Elevated CO2 concentrations impair larval
development and reduce larval survival in endangered Northern abalone (Haliotis
kamtschatkana). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 400 (1-2): 272-
277.
36. J. Sunday1, Keever, C.1, J. Puritz, J. Addison, R. Toonen, R. Grosberg, M. Hart. 2009.
Discordant distribution of populations and genetic variation in a sea star with high
dispersal potential. Evolution. 63(12): 3214-3237. (1equal authorship)
37. Sunday, J., L. Raeburn*, H. Stewart, and M.W. Hart. 2008. Allelic inheritance in
naturally occurring parthenogenetic offspring of the gonochoric sea star Patiria miniata.
Invertebrate Biology. 128(3): 276-282.

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38. Sunday J., L. Raeburn*, and M. Hart. 2008. Emerging infectious disease in sea stars:
castrating ciliate parasites in Patiria miniata. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 81: 173-176.
39. Keever, C., J. Sunday, C. Wood*, M. Byrne, and M. Hart. 2008. Microsatellite
crossamplification in asterinid sea stars. Biological Bulletin. 215: 164-172.
40. Hart, M. and J. Sunday. 2007. Things fall apart: biological species form unconnected
parsimony networks. Biology Letters. 3: 605-512.

NON-REFERRED REPORTS
1. Hofmann, G.E., Hazen, E.L., Ambrose, R.F., Aseltine-Neilson, D., Carter H., Caselle,
J.E., Chan, F., Kone, D., Levine, A., Micheli, F., Panos, D., Sunday, J., White, J.W.
Climate Resilience and California’s Marine Protected Area Network: A Report by the
Ocean Protection Council Science Advisory Team Working Group and California Ocean
Science Trust, June 2021.

GRANTS (Total funds at McGill = $1.82 M)

2022 Portfolio projection of biodiversity responses under climate change. J. Pandolfi, PI.
Australian Research Council, Discovery Projects. (Co-PI) $550,724.
2021 Parks Canada, sole-source contract (PI) Exploring applications of eDNA
metabarcoding for marine biodiversity monitoring of Gwaii Haanas. $12,639.
2020 Genome Canada, Genomic Applications Partnership Program (PI). Optimizing the
eDNA approach to monitor biodiversity in Canada’s Marine Protected Areas.
$757,409.
2020 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship Fund (PI). $100,000.
2019 NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience Program (co-PI). NSERC
CREATE in ecology, evolution and environmental science: The Living Data Project.
$1,650,000. ($47,708.00 to McGill)
2019 Canadian Innovation Fund, John R. Evans Leaders Fund (PI). A micro-ecosystem
array for testing ecological impacts of climate change. $428,283
2019 William Dawson Scholar Award (PI). $15,000 per year, total $75,000.
2019 Sole-source contract with Environment and Climate Change Canada (PI). Testing
thermal tolerance limits as proxies for climate change vulnerability. $25,000
2019 Canadian Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Thematic Program Funding (co-PI).
How does life deal with uncertainty in fluctuating environments? $13,350
2018 McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative Ideas Fund (PI). DNA-TRACE: Using eDNA
to track species responses to environmental change. $50,000
2018 Canadian Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Thematic Program Funding (PI).
Incorporating phenotypic variation of thermal tolerance to improve projections of
climate responses in Canada. $9,400.
2018 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery
Grant (PI). Changing species interactions along environmental gradients. $29,000 per
year, total $145,000.
2018 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Early Career
Researcher Discovery Grant Supplement (PI). $12,500.
2018 McGill Start Up Grant, Prof. Sunday (PI). $150,000.

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FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2013-2017 Biodiversity Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia
2013-2016 National Sciences and Engineering Research Council Post-Doctoral Research
Fellowship.
2012 Helmholtz Association of German Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship
(declined)
2012 Australia Research Council Super Science Fellowship (declined)
2012 Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement for visit to University of Tasmania
2012 Simon Fraser University President’s Research Stipend
2009-2012 NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canadian Graduate Scholarship
2009 Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre Research Scholarship

INVITED TALKS
Invited Plenary Talks
2022 Gordon Research Conference, Unifying Ecology Across Scales, Maine, USA.
(upcoming)
2018 Gordon Research Conference on Global Change Biology, Waterville, USA.
2018 International Biogeography Society meeting on Climate Change Biogeography, Evora,
Portugal.
2016 North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) Meeting, San Diego, USA.
2016 Species on the Move conference, Hobart, Australia.
2014 Early Career Award talk, Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution meeting,
Montreal, Canada.
2013 International Macrophysiology Workshop, San Francisco, USA.
2012 Evolutionary Potential in Marine Populations Meeting, Sylt, Germany.

Invited Seminars
2021 Biology Department, Lakehead University. Host: Adam Alger
2021 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univeristy of California, Davis. Host: Jay
Stachowitz
2021 Annual Conservation Speaker, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department,
University of Toronto. Host: Marie-Josée Fortin
2021 Department of Biology, Dalhousie University. Host: Boris Worm
2020 Institute of Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia. Host: Brian Hunt
2019 Department of Biology, University of Vermont. Host: Melissa Pespini
2019 Department of Biology, Université Quebec à Montreal. Host: Beatrix Beisner
2018 Bren School, University of California Santa Barbara, USA. Student-hosted
2017 Department of Biology, University of Montana. Host: Arthur Woods
2017 Department of Biology, McGill Univeristy. Host: Frederic Guichard
2017 Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of
Zurich. Switzerland.
2017 Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Canada
2016 Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation, Univeristy of California, Davis
2016 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa
Cruz. Host: Kristy Kroeker
2015 Department of Marine Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California
Santa Barbara, Host: Gretchen Hoffman
2015 Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Host: Jeremy Kerr
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2012 GEOMAR–Heimholtz Center for Ocean Research, Germany. Host: Frank Melzner
2012 Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Australia. Host: Gretta Pecl

Invited Symposium Presentations

2021 Commonwealth Science Conference, Science for a Resilient Future. Session:
Trajectories, challenges and solutions for biodiversity. Royal Society, Global, virtual.
2019 University of Laval Annual Biology Conference, Quebec, CA.
2018 Society for Experimental Biology Satellite Meeting: The height, breadth and depth of
physiological diversity. Florence, Italy
2018 Association for the Study of Limnology and Oceanography, Victoria, Canada
2018 Department of Fisheries and Oceans Nearshore Habitat Productivity Workshop,
Vancouver, Canada.
2017 Helmholtz-Institute for Symposium for Functional Marine Biodiversity, Oldenburg,
Germany.
2017 International Webinar, Outstanding Early Career Ecologists: Perspectives on Future
Earth. Hosted by: Ecological Society of America.
2013 Vulnerability of Tropical Ectotherms to Climate Change, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2011 American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Meeting Symposium, Evolution in
a Brave New World, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

CONTRIBUTED TALKS (select)

2022 Pacific eDNA Coastal Observatory: a demonstration project for efficiently tracking
dynamic biogeography and climate sensitivity in the coastal zone. Ocean Sciences
Meeting. Virtual.
2021 UN Decade of the Ocean. Virtual Early Career Ocean Profesionals Conference. Virtual
global.
2020 International Humboldt Day Symposium, The geography of species associations,
International Biogeography Society, Virtual global.
2019 North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), Victoria, Canada
2019 Species on the Move conference, Kruger National Park, South Africa.
2016 Western Society of Naturalists Meeting, Monterey, California.
2014 International Marine Conservation Congress, Glasgow, Scotland.
2014 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting, Austin, USA.
2013 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting, San Francisco, USA.

WORKSHOPS AND WORKING GROUPS (participant in 24, leader of 5)

2022-23 Designing Canada's Biodiversity Observation Network. Canadian Institute for
Ecology and Evolution thematic program.
2022 Organizer and convener, Working group. Canadian Datasets for Teaching in
Ecology and Evolution. Living Data Project thematic program.
2021-present Bioshifts Working Group. Global redistribution of biodiversity: A macro- and
eco-evolutionary approach to understand species vulnerability to global
changes. Centre for Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity (CESAB), France.
2020-present Biodiversity Integration Working Group, Quadra Centre for Coastal Dialogue,
Hakai Institute, virtual meetings.

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2019-present Organizer and convener, working group, How does life deal with uncertainty
in fluctuating environments? Canadian Institute for Ecology and Evolution
thematic program. Virtual meetings.
2018-present Organizer and convener, working group, Incorporating phenotypic variation
of thermal tolerance to improve projections of climate responses in Canada.
Canadian Institute for Ecology and Evolution thematic program and Quebec
Centre for Biodiversity Sciences working group. Meetings in Quebec, Canada,
and virtual.
2019-2021 Ocean Protection Council Science Advisory Team Working Group: MPAs and
Climate Resilience Science Synthesis and Data Needs. Sacramento, USA &
virtual.
2020 Workshop, Identifying Canada's information needs for biodiversity
conservation. Environment and Climate Change Canada. Ottawa, Canada.
2019 Synthesis and writing workshop, Species on the Move 2019. Kruger National
Park, South Africa.
2019 Workshop, Next-Generation Techniques for Understanding Global Change in
the Marine Environment. Seattle, USA.
2019 Horizon Scan Workshop, Emerging Issues in Conservation of Inland Waters of
Canada. McGill, Canada.
2019 Workshop, National Climate Change Science and Knowledge Plan,
Environment and Climate Change Canada. Ottawa, Canada
2015 Co-organizer and convener, working group. Does biodiversity explain
underfilling of species’ thermal ranges? UBC Biodiversity Centre
2014-17 Working group, Unifying marine and terrestrial biodiversity at the interplay of
macroecology, macrophysiology and macroevolution, German Centre for
Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Leipzig, Germany. Meetings in
Leipzig, Germany and Madrid, Spain.
2017 Workshop, Wildcards in Climate Change Biology. Vancouver, Canada.
2016 Working group, Canadian protected areas in a changing climate: A cross-
ecosystem approach to designing effective networks of protected areas.
Canadian Institute for Ecology and Evolution. Toronto, Canada.
2016 Synthesis and writing workshop, Species on the Move 2016, Hobart, Australia
2016 Workshop, Plasticity, adaptation and range shifts in the sea. Hobart, Australia
2014 Co-organizer and Convenor, Focus group, International Marine Conservation
Congress. Managing marine resources on the move. Glasgow, Scotland.
2014 Working Group, Planet Earth-Planet Ocean. Tansley Series, Silwood Park,
Royal College of London, UK.
2013 International Roundtable Workshop, Ocean Acidification: Implications for the
Marine Environment, UBC Wall Centre, Canada.
2012 Workshop, Climate change and range shifts in the ocean: detection, prediction
and adaptation, Yeosu, Korea.
2012 Co-organizer, workshop, Synthesis of biophysical proceses related to range
shifting species in the South East and West of Australia, Hobart, Australia.
2011 Focus Group, Monitoring resilience to climate change in temperate marine
systems, Victoria, Canada.

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SERVICE & LEADERSHIP
Action Committees
2020-present Member, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee, Department of Biology
2018- present Member, Communications Committee, Department of Biology
2020- present Member, Management Board, Canadian Institute of Ecology and Evolution,
National

Peer Review
2021 Member, Joint Prizes Selection Committee for the Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council of Canada, National
2020-2022 Member, CREATE Internal Review Committee, McGill University
2021 Reviewer, McGill Biology BIPOC research opportunity fellowship,
Departmental
2016- 2019 Subject Editor, Ecography
2019 Reviewer, Trottier Institute Public Science Policy Fellows program, McGill
University
2018 Reviewer, Early Career Award, Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution,
National
2015 Reviewer, Hesse Research Award in Ornithology, UBC, Institutional
2014 Judge, Raymond B. Huey Award, Austin, Texas, International

Seminar Organization
2021 Facilitator, Biology Summer Student Science Skills Training. Ask a scientist:
career stories and the value of failure. Institutional.
2020 Panellist and organizer, information session about graduate school for Biology
undergraduates. Institutional.
2020 Panellist, GEOMAR Annual General Meeting. What is a postdoc? Are they
necessary, how to get one, and life after becoming a doctor. National.
2019 Host, 3 seminar speakers at McGill, meeting and social organization. Institutional.
2021 Organizer, Non-Academic Careers in Biology Panel Discussion, Institutional.
2020 Co-organiser, International Humboldt Day Symposium, The geography of species
associations, International Biogeography Society, virtual. International.
2019 Symposium chair, Species on the Move Conference, Krugar National Park, South
Africa. International.
2014 Discussion Leader, Gordon Research Conference, Unifying Ecology Across
Scales, Maine, USA. International.
2013 Discussion Leader, Second International Macrophysiology Workshop, San
Francisco, USA. International.
2011 Symposium organizer and chair, Beyond Impactology: population effects of ocean
acidification. World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Aberdeen, Scotland.
International.
2011 Organizing committee, Interdepartmental Ecology of Aquatic Systems
Symposium, Simon Fraser University. Institutional.
2009-2011 Coordinator, Biology Graduate Research Symposium, Simon Fraser University.
2009 Organizer and chair, Darwin and the Sea: adaptations to a changing ocean. US
and Canada.

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2009 Student symposium, Western Society of Naturalists, Monterey, US and Canada.
2007 Organizer, The Fall Speaker Series on Climate Change, Simon Fraser University.
Institutional.
Advisory Service & Consulting
2020 Ocean Protection Council of California, Science Advisory Team
2020 Identifying Canada's information needs for biodiversity conservation.
Environment and Climate Change Canada.
2019 National Climate Change Science and Knowledge Plan, Environment and
Climate Change Canada
2018-2021 Member of advisory committee for 8 PhD and 3 MSc students, institutional.
2018-2021 Thesis examiner for 7 PhD and 1 MSc students, institutional and international.

GRANT REVIEWER FOR: The National Science Foundation, USA.

PEER REVIEWER FOR:
Nature • Science • Nature Climate Change • Nature Communications • Science Advances
Ecology Letters • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • The American Naturalist
• Global Change Biology • Ecology • Proceedings of the Royal Society, B • Evolutionary
Applications • PLoS One • Ecography • Marine Ecology Progress Series • Global
Environmental Change • Axios Reviews • Animal Ecology • Fisheries and Oceanography •
Invertebrate Biology • New Phycologist • Annales Zoologici Fennici • Water

TEACHING
Institutional Courses
2019-22 Instructor and Co-ordinator, Biodiversity and Ecosystems 310, McGill University.
2022 Co-Instructor, Organismal Biology Research and Professional Skills, 603, McGill
University.
2020-21 Co-Instructor and coordinator, Skills in Data Synthesis, Directed Studies 651,
McGill University.
2019-21 Co-Instructor, Introduction to Ecology and Evolution 215, McGill University.
2012 Co-instructor, graduate course, Marine evolution under climate change, Centre for
Marine Evolutionary Biology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

National Programs
2020-21 Co-Instructor, Synthesis Statistics in Ecology and Evolution, 1 credit graduate
module taught across 10 campuses in Canada, part of the Living Data Project.
2020-21 Organizer and speaker, CIEE-Living Data Project training workshop, Testing
hypotheses through data synthesis: preparing for success. Online across-Canada
workshop.

Course Development
2021-present Development committee, FSCI 198: The Climate Crisis and Climate Actions,
100-level course for all McGill students
2019-present Development of national graduate training program in reproducible data and
synthesis science: NSERC CREATE in Ecology, Evolution and Environmental
science: The Living Data Project.

Guest lectures

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2020-2022 Data Visualization, in Scientific Manuscript Writing Biol 610.
2021 Advances in Aquatic Ecology Biol 515. Reviewed and provided feedback as
part of a mock NSERC panel for graduate students.

Research trainees directly supervised

Trainee Level Dates
Current trainees
Dr. Joseph Burant Post-doctoral Sept 2021- present
Kaitlin Sheridan PhD Student September 2019 - present
Benjamin Millard- PhD Student September 2019 - present
Martin
Jake Lawlor PhD Student January 2020 - present

Danielle MacRae MSc Student September 2020 - present

Jory Griffith MSc Student September 2021 - present
Nicole Moore MSc Student and September 2021 - present
Undergraduate September 2019 - 2021
Anya Mueller Undergraduate Summer 2020 - present
Victor Cruz Undergraduate Summer 2022
Tessa Rehill Undergraduate Summer 2022
Alumni Current position
Dr. Juan Vicente Post-doctoral 2019 - 2021 Post-doc, Uni. Rey
Gallego Rubalcaba Juan Carlos, Spain
Dr. Joanna Bernhardt Post-doctoral 2020 Post-doc, UBC
Brendon McGuinness Rotational, PhD 2019 PhD student, McGill
Brit Van Amerom Undergraduate 2020 - 2021 MSc, SFU
Julia Briand MSc Student 2019 - 2022 PhD student,
University of Alberta
Nuha Anver Mohamed Undergraduate 2019 - 2019 Associate Project
Rizan Manager, NeuroRx
McKenzie Burnett Undergraduate 2019 Plastic Free YYC
Sarah Gravel Undergraduate 2018 - 2019 MSc, Biology, SFU
Emaan Qazi Undergraduate 2021 - 2022
Thomas O’Callaghan- Undergraduate Winter 2022
Brown

NEWS COVERAGE & PUBLIC OUTREACH

Research featured in 171 news stories. Work cited in 19 policy documents across eight
international organisations, including, IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a
Changing Climate, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),
United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), International Union for Conservation of
Nature (IUCN), the European Union (EU), UK Government, World Meteorological
Organization (WMO), and Analysis & Policy Observatory (APO).
GENERAL INTERVIEWS

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2021 CBC interview with Emily Chung, Scientists can detect animal species by vacuuming
their DNA out of the air (quoted)
2020 Scientific American interview with Jim Daley, Ocean Species Are Shifting toward the
Poles (quoted)
2020 Inside Climate News interview with Bob Berwin, Unchecked Global Warming Could
Collapse Whole Ecosystems, Maybe Within 10 Years (quoted).
2019 National Geographic Magazine interview with Alejandra Bojandra, Oceans and ice
are absorbing the brunt of climate change. (quoted)
2017 Science Magazine interview with Giorgia Guglielmi, Just 1°C of ocean warming can
upend marine ecosystems. (quoted)
2016 National Geographic Magazine interview with Craig Welch, The Blob That Cooked the
Pacific. (fact-checking)
2016 New York Times interview with Carl Zimmer, Warming oceans putting marine life ‘in
a blender’. (quoted)
2016 Inside Climate News, Surprising Number of Species Going Extinct in Their Usual
Homes, Study Says. (quoted)

ARTICLE COVERAGE
Sunday, Science 2020.
Le Devoir: Plus du tiers des espèces de poissons menacées par le réchauffement du climat.
Pinsky et al. Nature 2019
National Geographic: Ocean species disappear faster than those on land
Smithsonian Magazine: Ocean dwelling species are disappearing twice as quickly as land
animals
Inside Climate News: global Warming Is Hitting Ocean Species Hardest, Including Fish
Relied on for Food
Mashable.com: Why sea creatures are fleeing their homes
Pecl et al. Science, 2017
National Geographic: Half of All Species Are on the Move—And We're Feeling It
The Guardian Newspaper: Climate change: global reshuffle of wildlife will have huge
impacts on humanity
Science Nordic: New study reveals how climate change will overturn nature
CBC Canada: Wildlife shuffle study co-author calls for action on climate change
The Sydney Herold: Climate change pushing humans, other species to the brink
Science et Avenir (France): Le changement climatique affecte déjà l’homme
Sunday et al. Nature Climate Change, 2017
CBC Radio Victoria On the Island, live interview
Metro News Vancouver: Ocean acidification threatens biodiversity in some marine
habitats: UBC study
Sunday et al. Ecology Letters, 2015
Pacific Standard Magazine: Predicting how sea animals will react to climate change
Conservation Magazine: Which ocean animals will escape warming waters?
Sunday et al. Nature Climate Change, 2012
Environmental Research Web: Climate migration: was Darwin right?
Local radio interview: CFAX Radio
Science Daily: Land and sea species differ in climate change responses: study
Sunday et al. PlosONE, 2011
Scientific American: Which ocean species will outlast the rising acidity of seawater?
The New Scientist: Sea urchins evolving to cope with ocean acidification.
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 Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution News: Acid-induced Evolution
Nature News Blog: Adapting to an acid ocean.
Sunday et al. Proc. Roy. Soc. B, 2011
Local radio interviews: Radio EcoShock, CFAX Radio

PUBLIC TALKS AND ARTICLES

2020 Cutting Edge Lecture Series, Redpath Museum, Montreal, Canada.
2019 Big Biology Podcast interview with Art Woods and Marty Martin.
2018 Soup and Science, Redpath Museum, Montreal, Canada.
2015 Exhibit opening talk, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Vancouver, Canada.
2015 Author, TheConversation.com: How you can help scientists track how marine life
reacts to climate change.

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