Ian M. Smith, Ph.D.

Contact details
Telephone: 613-759-1783
Fax: 613-759-1927
E-mail: smithi@agr.gc.ca

• Current Research Projects
• Expertise
• Affiliations
• Honours
• Presentations
• Publications

Current Research Projects

• Systematics and ecology of mites, especially Prostigmata

Expertise

• Systematics and ecology of world fauna of water mites

Affiliations

• 1977-present: Member, Scientific Committee, Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods)
• 1992-present: Member, Working Group, Federal Biosystematics Partnership
• 1992-present: Member, Biodiversity Forum, Biodiversity Convention Office, Environment Canada
• 1992-present: Collaborator, Biodiversity of Southeastern USA project, Mississippi State University
• 1996-present: Member, Biodiversity Science Board, Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network (EMAN)
• 1996-present: Leader, Assessment of Species Diversity in Canadian Ecozones Project, EMAN
• 1996-present: Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Mixedwood Ecozone Ecological Science Cooperative, EMAN
• 1997-present: Lecturer, Summer Acarology Program, Ohio State University
• 1998-present: Collaborator, Biota of the Great Plains Project, University of Kansas

Honours

• 1969 University Board of Governors Gold Medal, Honours Zoology, University of Western Ontario
• 1969-1973 National Research Council Postgraduate Scholar, University of Toronto
• 1988 Member, National Organizing Committee, International Congress of Entomology
• 1999 Patricia Roberts-Pichette Award, EMAN

Presentations

• Soil Formation and Mite Colonization of Rehabilitated Mine Tailings, Sudbury Canada. ( by M.G. St. John, V.M. Behan-Pelletier, G. Bagatto, E.E. Lindquist, J.D. Shorthouse, I.M. Smith)

Publications

• Author of over 80 scientific papers and articles on systematics and ecology of mites and related biodiversity issues. To see a list of these along with pdf files of some, click here.

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