ROBERT SISSONS - Conservation Biologist, Grasslands National Park of Canada, Val Marie, Saskatchewan
Rob is originally from the Eastern Townships of Quebec, but moved to the prairies to get an undergraduate degree in Range Management from the University of Alberta and has been here ever since. After completing his undergraduate, he embarked on a Masters program under Dr. Fiona Schmiegelow at the University of Alberta studying the feeding ecology of Burrowing Owls in southern Alberta. He completed his MSc in the fall of 2003, but by this time had already started work in Grasslands National Park in Val Marie as a conservation biologist. Rob’s current focus is ecological monitoring in the park, focusing on grassland breeding birds and the vegetation communities, but his work encompasses a broad range of subjects from remote sensing to species at risk to coordinating the ecological preparation for a recent bison reintroduction to Grasslands National Park.