Josie Hughes
B.Sc. (Ecology, UBC)
M.R.M. (Resource & Environmental Management, SFU)

Josie graduated from the School of Resource & Environmental Management (REM) in 2002. Her masters project was entitled "Modeling the effect of landscape pattern on mountain pine beetles". Since graduating from REM, Josie has been working as a forestry research consultant in British Columbia. Her recent work has mostly been on modeling and management of mountain pine beetles and other forest disturbance agents, but she has also dabbled in fire ecology, snowshoe hare population dynamics, metapopulation dynamics of birds in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest, and algal evolutionary ecology. She is always keen to hear about interesting projects and possibilities.

Reports & Publications

• Fall, A., J. Hughes, T. Shore, L. Safranyik and B. Riel. 2003.Toward the Development of a Landscape-Scale Mountain Pine Beetle Key for Decision-Support: Application of the MPB/SELES Landscape-Scale MPB Model. Internal Report. British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Victoria, BC.
• Wong, C., J. Westfall, D. Sachs, A. Fall, J. Hughes, and H. Sandman. 2003. Incorporating insects and diseases in ecosystem management: FII Final Report. Report to Lignum Forest Products, Inc.
• Hughes, J. and Drever, R. 2001. Salvaging solutions: science-based management of BC's pine beetle outbreak. Commissioned by the David Suzuki Foundation, Forest Watch of British Columbia (a project of the Sierra Legal Defence Fund), and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - BC Chapter. Vancouver, BC.
• Hughes, J. S. and Otto, S. P. 1999. Ecology and the evolution of biphasic life cycles. The American Naturalist 154(3): 306-320.