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I grew up in British Columbia, Canada bouncing between Vancouver and a gulf island in the Straight of Georgia. As a child, I always had a fascination for all things ecological and spent many hours observing tide-pools and frogs. As an adult, this fascination only grew as I got involved in research throughout my undergrad and ultimately inspired me to embark on a PhD.

When I'm not involved in academic pursuits, find me kayaking, backpacking, or playing music in any of the places that I call home.  

 

The work I do and the land upon which I live is in the traditional territories of many Indigenous peoples. As a settler, I am privileged to be here and share in the resources of these lands. I acknowledge the ongoing and systemic injustices created by the settler-colonial state of Canada. 

My life in Vancouver rests on the traditional and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. In Toronto, I live on the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. 

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Lertzman-Lepofsky G, ​ Dolezal A, Waters M T, Fuster-Calvo A, Black A, Flaman S, Straus S, Langendorf R, Eckert I, Fan S, Branch H, Chardon N, Collins C G. Temporal changes in taxon abundances are positively correlated but poorly predicted at the global scale. Ecography, accepted fall 2024. 

 

Frishkoff L, Lertzman-Lepofsky G, Mahler DL. Evolutionary opportunity and the limits of community similarity in replicate radiations of island lizards. Ecology Letters. October 2022. DOI: ​10.1111/ele.14098

Lertzman‐Lepofsky G, Kissel A, Sinervo B, Palen W. Water loss and temperature interact to compound amphibian vulnerability to climate change. Global Change Biology. 2020 Sep;26(9):4868-79. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.15231

Lertzman-Lepofsky G, Mooers AØ, Greenberg D. Ecological constraints associated with genome size across salamander lineages. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 2019 Sep 25;286(1911):20191780. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.1780

Toniello G, Lepofsky D, Lertzman-Lepofsky G, Salomon A, Rowell K. 11,500 y of human–clam relationships provide long-term context for intertidal management in the Salish Sea, British Columbia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2019 Oct 29;116(44):22106-14. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/10/09/1905921116.short?rss=1

Gavia Lertzman-Lepofsky, Luke O. Frishkoff, D. Luke Mahler. Consequences of deforestation on functional community structure reverse at high elevations. Presentation. Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution, Vancouver.

Gavia Lertzman-Lepofsky, Luke O. Frishkoff, D. Luke Mahler. Deforestation and elevation jointly shape morphospace occupation in anole communities. Presentation. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Seattle.

Gavia Lertzman-Lepofsky. Intermediate R workshop. Faculty of Information iSkills. University of Toronto. 

Panelist in Massey Dialogue: ClimateMusic Project Executive Director Stephan Crawford, composer Richard Festinger, Gavia Lertzman-Lepofsky, moderated by Dr. Dianne Saxe. ClimateMusic Icarus in Flight: What does global heating feel like? https://tinyurl.com/ru365vwu

Panelists in CIFAR Massey Lecture: Dr. Jenny Tung, Gavia Lertzman-Lepofsky, Mariela Faykoo-Martinez, Rushay Naik. How social relationships get under the skin. Massey College, Toronto

Panelists in Massey Dialogue: Dr. Johannes Refisch, Gavia Lertzman-Lepofsky, Dr. Dianne Saxe. Zoonoses to pandemics: how biodiversity loss contributes to zoonotic disease. Massey College, Toronto

Gavia Lertzman-Lepofsky, Dan A. Greenberg, and Arne Ø. Mooers. Presentation. Genome Size Constrains Breeding Habitat. Eco-Evo, Squamish

Gavia Lertzman-Lepofsky, Amanda Kissel, Wendy Palen, and Barry Sinervo. Presentation. Water loss and temperature and amphibian vulnerability to climate change. North American Congress for Conservation Biology, Toronto

Gavia Lertzman-Lepofsky, Amanda Kissel, Wendy Palen, and Barry Sinervo. Presentation. Desiccation Risk of Alpine Amphibians. Joint Meeting of Ichthyology and Herpetology, New Orleans

NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship: Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement

NSERC Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship

Moira Whalon Prize: recognizing Junior Fellows who embody the spirit and ethos of the Massey College Community 

 

Queen Elizabeth II/Dr. F. M. Hill Scholarship in Science and Technology at the University of Toronto

Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Junior Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto

2012-2017

Simon Fraser University

Bachelor’s of Science from Simon Fraser University Honours First Class with Distinction

2019-Current

PhD candidate in the Mahler lab at the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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