Associate Professor

Program: ENVS/Biology

Email: jsircom@mun.ca

Phone: 709-639-6515

Office: AS3015

 

Credentials

BSc Honours, Acadia; MSc and PhD, Dalhousie

 

Research Interests

Invertebrate ecology broadly, most recent work on pollinators

 

Teaching

Biology of Invertebrates (BIOL2122), Analytical Ecology (ENVS4132), Freshwater Ecology (ENVS3130), Principles of Ecology (BIOL2600), Biology of Vertebrates (BIOL2210) , Invertebrate Bioindicators (ENVS4911), Senior seminar and project courses (ENVS4000, 4950), Honours theses (ENVS4951, 4959), Statistical Model Building in Boreal Ecology (BEAS6052)

 

Representative scholarly contributions

Doyle ML, Bowden JJ, Moise ER, Sircom J. 2025. Seeing the forest for the trees: an assessment of stand-level variation in arboreal spider (Araneae) assemblages in western Newfoundland, Canada. The Canadian Entomologist 157:e29.

Pinksen J, Moise ER, Sircom J, Bowden JJ. 2021. Living on the edge: Effects of clear-cut created ecotones on nocturnal macromoth assemblages in the eastern boreal forest, Canada. Forest Ecology and Management 494:119309