CV JENNIFER SUNDAY
sunday@zoology.ubc.ca · www.jennsunday.weebly.com · @jennsunday
EDUCATION
2006 – 2012
1997 – 2002
PhD Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University
BSc in Ecology with Honours, University of British Columbia
RESEARCH POSITIONS
2013-ongoing Biodiversity Research Center and NSERC Post Doctoral Fellow,
University of British Columbia
AWARDS
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, USA.
2012 Best Talk, Second International Symposium on Effects of Climate Change on the
World’s Oceans. Yeosu, Korea.
2011 Outstanding Student Presentation Award, American Society of Limnology and
Oceanography Ocean Sciences Meeting, Puerto Rico.
2010 Graduate Student Award of Merit, Senior Women Academic Administrators of
Canada.
2010 Student Abstract Award, Global Change and Global Science: Comparative
Physiology in a Changing World, Denver, Colorado.
2010 Honourable mention, best talk, Interdepartmental Ecology of Aquatic Systems
Symposium, SFU, Canada
2009 Honourable mention, best talk, Interdepartmental Ecology of Aquatic Systems
Symposium, SFU, Canada
2009 Research Award, Northeast Pacific Shell Club
2008 Research Award, Garfield Weston Foundation/B.C. Packers
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2013 University of British Columbia Biodiversity Post-Doctoral Fellowship
2013 NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship
2012 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers Post-Doctoral Fellowship
(declined)
2012 Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement for scholarly visit to U. of Tasmania
2012 Simon Fraser University President’s Research Stipend
2009 NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canadian Graduate Scholarship
2009 Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre Research Scholarship
2008 Simon Fraser University Graduate Fellowship
2007 Simon Fraser University Graduate Fellowship
2005 Simon Fraser University Graduate Fellowship
PUBLICATIONS 677 citations, h-index: 9 (Google Scholar)
CLIMATE CHANGE ECOLOGY
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A.E. Bates, 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.
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2015. Distinguishing geographical range shifts from artefacts of detectability and
sampling effort. Diversity and Distributions. 21(1):13-22.
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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. Ocean
acidification through the lens of ecological theory. Ecology. DOI: 10.1890/140802.1.
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Bates, A.E, T. Bird, R. Stuart-Smith, T. Wernberg, J.M. Sunday, G. Edgar, S.
Frusher, A. Hobday, G. Pecl, D. Smale. Distinguishing geographic range shifts from
artefacts of detectability and sampling effort. Diversity and Distributions.
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12263.
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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.
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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.
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Sunday, J.M., P. Calosi, T. Reusch, S. Dupont, P. Munday, J. Stillman. 2013.
Evolution in an acidifying ocean. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 29(2): 117-125.
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Sunday J.M., A.E. Bates, N.K. Dulvy. 2012. Thermal tolerance and the
redistribution of animals. Nature Climate Change. 2: 686–690.
Cover article, recommended by Faculty of 1000
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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).
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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
10. 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.
POPULATION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION (* denotes mentored undergraduates)
11. 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, Early Online DOI: 10.1111/mec.12924
12. 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, Early Online DOI: 10.1111/evo.12352
13. Sunday, J.M. and M.W. Hart. 2013. Sea star populations diverge by positive
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selection at a sperm-egg compatibility locus. Ecology and Evolution. 3(3): 640–654.
14. Keever, C., J. Sunday, 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. Keever, C., J. Sunday, C. Wood*, M. Byrne, and M. Hart. 2008. Microsatellite
cross-amplification in asterinid sea stars. Biological Bulletin. 215: 164-172.
18. Hart, M. and J. Sunday. 2007. Things fall apart: biological species form unconnected
parsimony networks. Biology Letters 3: 605-512.
CONTRIBUTIONS AS A GROUP AUTHOR
19. C.C. Phillis, S.M. O’Regan, S.J. Green, J.E.B. Bruce, S.C. Anderson, J.N. Linton,
Earth2Ocean Research Derby (group authorship), B. Favaro. 2012. Multiple
pathways to conservation success. Conservation Letters 6:2: 98–106.
20. Brett Favaro, Douglas C Braun, Earth2Ocean Research Derby (group authorship).
2013. The ‘Research Derby’: A pressure cooker for creative and collaborative
science. Ideas in Ecology and Evolution 6: 40–46.
INVITED TALKS
2014 Early Career Award talk, Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution meeting,
Montreal, Canada.
2013 Symposium Speaker, Vulnerability of Tropical Ectotherms to Climate Change,
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2013 Plenary Speaker, 2nd International Macrophysiology Workshop, San Francisco.
2012 Plenary Speaker, Evolutionary Potential in Marine Populations, Sylt, Germany.
2012 Seminar Speaker, GEOMAR–Heimholtz Center for Ocean Research, Germany.
2012 Seminar Speaker, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Tasmania, Australia.
2011 Symposium Speaker, Evolution in a Brave New World, American Society of
Limnology and Oceanography Meeting, Puerto Rico.
CONTRIBUTED TALKS
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2012
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International Marine Conservation Congress, Glasgow, Scotland.
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting, Austin, TX.
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting, San Francisco.
Society for Evolutionary Biology meeting, Ottawa, Canada. (poster)
Second International Symposium on Effects of Climate Change on the World’s
Oceans. Yeosu, Korea.
2012 IDEAS (Interdepartmental Ecology of Aquatic Systems) Symposium. Burnaby,
Canada.
2012 Ecology and Evolution Retreat for UBC/SFU/UVIC, Brackendale, Canada.
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World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Aberdeen, Scotland.
International Congress on Marine Conservation, Victoria, Canada.
IDEAS Symposium. Burnaby, Canada.
Global Change and Global Science: Comparative Physiology in a Changing
World, Denver, Colorado. (poster)
Ecology and Evolution Retreat for UBC/SFU/UVIC, Brackendale, Canada.
Western Society of Naturalists Meeting, Monterey, California.
IDEAS Symposium. Burnaby, Canada.
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting, Seattle.
IDEAS Symposium. Burnaby, Canada.
Western Society of Naturalists Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.
Ecology and Evolution Retreat for UBC/SFU/UVIC, Brackendale, Canada.
Western Society of Naturalists Meeting, Ventura, California.
Pacific Ecology and Evolution Conference, Bamfield, Canada.
UBC Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium. (poster)
INVITED WORKSHOPS
2014 Working group, Unifying marine and terrestrial biodiversity at the interplay of
macroecology, macrophysiology and macroevolution, German Centre for
Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany.
2014 Discussion Leader, Gordon Research Conference, Unifying Ecology Across
Scales, Maine, USA.
2014 Tansley Working Group: Planet Earth-Planet Ocean, Silwood Park, Royal
College of London, UK.
2013 International Roundtable, Ocean Acidification: Implications for the Marine
Environment, University of British Columbia, Canada.
2013 Discussion Leader, Second International Macrophysiology Workshop, San
Francisco, CA.
2012 Climate change and range shifts in the ocean: detection, prediction and
adaptation. Yeosu, Korea.
2012 Discussion Leader, Synthesis of biophysical proceses related to range shifting
species in the South East and West of Australia. Tasmania, Australia.
2011 Focus Group: Monitoring resilience to climate change in temperate marine
systems. International Marine Conservation Congress, Canada.
SERVICE & LEADERSHIP
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2013-2014
2010-2012
2009-2011
2010
2008-2010
2008-2010
Organizer, Biodiversity Discusion Group, UBC
Organizer, Statistics for Aquatic Ecologists weekly meetings, SFU.
University Ambassador for the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, SFU
Organizer, Publishing Demystified Workshop for graduate students, SFU
Elected representative, Biology Graduate Student Caucus, SFU
Student Representative, Graduate Studies Committee for the Department of
Biological Sciences, SFU
2007-2009 Canadian Student Representative, Western Society of Naturalists, USA
ANONYMOUS SCIENTIFIC REVIEW
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Journal article reviewer for:
Nature Climate Change (2) • Nature Communications • Ecology Letters (2) • Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences • The American Naturalist • Global Change Biology
• Ecology • Proceedings of the Royal Society, B (3) • PLoS One (2) • Marine Ecology
Progress Series • Global Environmental Change • Animal Ecology • Fisheries and
Oceanography • Invertebrate Biology • Ecography • New Phycologist • Annales Zoologici
Fennici • Water
Grant reviewer for: The National Science Foundation, USA.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION – NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL
2014
Focus group organizer, Managing marine resources on the move.
International Marine Conservation Congress, Glasgow Scotland.
Session Organizer and Chair, Beyond Impactology: population effects of
ocean acidification. World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Scotland.
Symposium Organizer and Chair, Darwin and the Sea: adaptations to a
changing ocean. Western Society of Naturalists, Monterey, USA.
Poster Session, Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution, Vancouver,
Canada.
2011
2009
2008
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION - REGIONAL
2013
Organizing committee, UBC/SFU/UVIC Ecology and Evolution Retreat,
Brackendale, Canada.
2009, 2011 Organizing committee, Interdepartmental Ecology of Aquatic Systems
Symposium, SFU.
2009-2011 Coordinator, Graduate Research Symposium, SFU Biology Department.
2007
Organizer, The Fall Speaker Series on Climate Change, SFU
TEACHING
2012 Instructor, Centre for Marine Evolutionary Biology, University of Gothenburg,
Sweden. Marine evolution under climate change, International graduate course.
2007 Instructor, Invertebrate Biology, Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University.
2014
2012
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2010
2009
2009
2008
Guest Lecturer, Skills and Concepts for Advanced Ecology, UBC
Guest Lecturer, Animal Ecology, Simon Fraser University
Guest Lecturer, Conservation Biology, Simon Fraser University
Guest Lecturer, Introduction to Ecology, Simon Fraser University
Guest Lecturer, Conservation Biology, Simon Fraser University
Guest Lecture, Macroecology, Simon Fraser University
Guest Lecturer, Evolution, Simon Fraser University
Guest Lecturer, Invertebrate Biology, Simon Fraser University
2012
2008
2007
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2006
2006
Teaching Assistant, Animal Ecology, Simon Fraser University
Teaching Assistant, Marine Ecology, Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre
Teaching Assistant, Seaweeds, Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre
Teaching Assistant, Invertebrate Biology, Simon Fraser University
Teaching Assistant, Larval Ecology, Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre
Teaching Assistant, Conservation Biology, Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre
2009-2011 Scientific Drawing Workshop, Invertebrate Biology, SFU
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2003-2005 Public Educator, Vancouver Aquarium Marine Sciences Centre
2002
Teaching Assistant, Shad Valley, University of British Columbia
2000
Group Directed Studies Facilitator, Patterns in Nature, 448i. University of
British Columbia
MEDIA COVERAGE AND COMMUNICATION
August, 2014 Scientific American: Which Ocean Species Will Outlast the Rising Acidity
of Seawater?
April, 2013 The New Scientist: Sea urchins evolving to cope with ocean acidification.
June, 2012
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution: Acid-induced Evolution.
Environmental Research Web: Climate migration: was Darwin right?
May, 2012
Science Daily, PhysOrg.com, e!ScienceNews, CFAX Radio: Land and sea
species differ in climate change responses: study.
May, 2011
Nature News Blog: Adapting to an acid ocean.
May, 2011
The Green Man Blog: SFU study suggests some animals may be preadapted to climate change.
May, 2011
PhysOrg.com, Radio EcoShock, CFAX Radio: Cool species take the heat
OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Public lecture, Pacific Northwest Shell Club, Seattle, USA, 2011.
Volunteer, Vancouver Aquarium OceanWise Sustainable Seafood Program, 2008-2011
Coordinator, Green Finger Campaign, SFU, 2009
Coordinator, Earth Hour, SFU: Lights-off campaign and concert in the dark, 2009.
Local Organizer, The Mass Dialogues: Live discussion with the youth delegation at the
UN Climate Change Meetings in Poznan, Poland (COP 14), SFU, 2008
Bike-to-work week team leader, Dept. Biological Sciences, SFU, 2007 & 2008
Commuter Station Organiser, Bike-to-work week, SFU, 2007
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