Jeremy Kerr
Jeremy Kerr is a Biology professor at the University of Ottawa (uO) where he holds the University Research Chair in Macroecology and Conservation. Kerr is a member of the NSERC Council, including its executive committee, and the past president of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE). He is the Chair of NSERC's Committee on Discovery Research. In 2021, Kerr was elected to be a member of Sigma Xi Society and is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. While CSEE president (2016–18), Kerr oversaw the development of the society's  Equity, Diversity and Inclusion policies. He constituted the committee to draft its first Diversity and Inclusion Statement. Kerr, who is an ecologist and conservation biologist, is also active in public science and citizen science, including the eButterfly project. Education. Undergraduate. Completed biology honour project with David Currie at University of Ottawa. PhD. Completed in the Department of Biology, York University with Laurence Packer. Post-Doc. Completed in the Department of Zoology of University of Oxford, with Lord Robert May and Sir Richard Southwood. OUPFB Field Course. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Kerr was the instructor of Wildlife and Ecology in East  African Ecosystems, a field course offered by the Ontario Universities Program in Field Biology (OUPFB) in 2019. His field course photography collection with detailed metadata explaining lion's behaviours in Tanzania was uploaded to the digital archive of uO.