KATIE GOODWIN

Email: katie.goodwin@botany.ubc.ca Biodiversity Research Centre

Phone: (604) 809-9135 University of British Columbia

EDUCATION
Ph.D. Student in Botany 2020-Present
Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia (UBC),
Vancouver, BC
Advisor: Dr. Amy Angert

M.Sc. in Geography (Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies) 2017-2019

Northern EDGE lab, Memorial University (MUN), St. John’s, NL
Advisor: Dr. Carissa Brown

B.Sc. in Biological Sciences (First Class with Distinction) 2010-2015

Simon Fraser University (SFU), Burnaby, BC
Stream: Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation

Certificate in Environmental Literacy 2010-2015

Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC

PUBLICATIONS
K. Goodwin, A. Kissel, and W. Palen. (2019). Individual variation in thermal
performance for a temperate, montane amphibian (Rana cascadae). Herpetological
Conservation & Biology, 14(2). 420-428.

E. Suárez, K. Orndahl, and K. Goodwin. (2015). Lava flows and moraines as corridors
for early plant colonization of glacier forefronts on tropical volcanoes. Biotropica, 47(6).
645-649.
• Editor’s choice article for Biotropica 47(6)

(In Review) K. Goodwin and C. Brown. Integrating demographic niches and black
spruce range expansion at subarctic treelines. Submitted to Journal of Ecology.

(In Prep) K. Goodwin and C. Brown. Pre-seedling life stages impede black spruce range
expansion: A multivariate assessment of microsite availability.

(In Prep) L. Brehaut, K. Goodwin, K. Reid, J. Sullivan, A. Crofts, R. Danby, S. Mamet,

and C. Brown. Is pre-dispersal seed predation a biotic constraint across sub-arctic
treelines?

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AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Doctoral:
NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral ($105,000) 2020-2022
UBC Four Year Doctoral Fellowship ($72,800) (Declined) 2020-2023
UBC Faculty of Science Ph.D. Tuition Award ($6760.94) 2020-2021
UBC President’s Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award ($866.28) 2020-2021
UBC Frances Chave Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Botany ($1725) 2020

Master’s:
W. Garfield Weston Award for Northern Research – Master’s ($15,000) 2018-2019
Northern Scientific Training Program Grant ($2750) 2018
Churchill Northern Research Fund ($470) (Declined) 2018
Royal Canadian Geographical Society Graduate Scholarship ($2000) 2018
NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s ($17,500) 2017-2018
Northern Scientific Training Program Grant ($3650) 2017

Bachelor’s
SFU Vice Presidential Research Undergraduate Student Award ($4500) 2015
SFU Open Undergraduate Scholarship ($6400) 2011-2015
SFU Alumni Scholarship ($1500) 2012-2015

PRESENTATIONS
* indicates presenting author
K. Goodwin* and C. Brown (Aug 2019). Integrating demographic niche shifts and
northern black spruce range expansion. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution.
Fredericton, NB. Oral Presentation.

L. Brehaut*, K. Goodwin, K. Reid, J. Sullivan, A. Crofts, R. Danby, S. Mamet, and C.

Brown. (Aug 2019) Is pre-dispersal seed herbivory a biotic constraint across sub-arctic
treelines? Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution. Fredericton, NB. Oral
Presentation.

K. Goodwin* and C. Brown. (Mar 2019). Demographic constraints on black spruce

range expansion into tundra ecosystems. Aldrich Interdisciplinary Graduate Research
Conference. St. John’s, NL. Oral Presentation.
• Awarded best oral presentation ($350)

K. Goodwin* and C. Brown. (Nov 2018). Demographic constraints on black spruce

range expansion into tundra ecosystems. Association of Canadian Universities for
Northern Studies Student Conference. Edmonton, BC. Poster presentation.
• Awarded first place master’s poster presentation

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WORKSHOPS AND WORKING GROUPS
Climate change refugia in pacific northwest forests workshop (Mar 2020), University of
Washington, Seattle, WA. Participant. (Cancelled due to Covid-19)

Careers and research in ecology and evolution workshop (Oct 2014), University of
Toronto, Toronto, ON. Participant.

Galápagos Ecology Semester Program (Jan – Jun 2013), Universidad San Francisco de
Quito, Quito, Ecuador. Participant.

FIELD AND LAB EXPERIENCE

Doctoral dissertation field work in North Cascades, WA & BC 2019-Present
Angert Lab, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Master’s dissertation field work in Yukon 2017-2018

Northern EDGE Lab, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL

Undergraduate Research Assistant in North Cascades, WA 2015

Palen Lab, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC

Undergraduate Laboratory Assistant 2013

Landscape and Conservation Science Research Group, Simon Fraser
University, Burnaby, BC

Undergraduate Research Assistant in Cotopaxi, Ecuador 2013

Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San
Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant: GEOG 2102 – Physical Geography 2018, 2019
Memorial University, St. John’s, NL

Outdoor Educator on Alpine Ecology 2016-2017

Mount Seymour Provincial Park, North Vancouver, BC

Nature Guide on Temperate Rainforest Ecology 2014-2016

Capilano Suspension Bridge Park, North Vancouver, BC

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MENTORING EXPERIENCE
Supervision of Undergraduate Students
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
• Emma Menchions, Flowering phenology across the range 2020
of Lupinus latifolius

ACADEMIC SERVICE
Grad Representative, Biodiversity Data Scientist Search Committee 2020-2021
Biodiversity Research Centre, UBC, Vancouver, BC

Weekly Writing Group Co-Facilitator, Geography Writes 2018-2019

Geography Department, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL

Visiting Speaker Series Organizer, Scholarship of the Arts 2018-2019

Geography Department, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL

Communications Officer 2017-2019

Geography Graduate Student Association (GGSA), Memorial
University, St. John’s, NL

General Volunteer Nov 2018

GGSA Seminar for Undergraduates Thinking about Grad School,
Memorial University, St. John’s, NL
• Gave an informal talk on the graduate school experience and
choosing the right program

General Volunteer Nov 2017

Association of New Canadians and Geography Department, Memorial
University, St. John’s, NL
• Presented an interactive giant map of Canada’s arctic at
schools to engage new Canadian students in northern
geography and research

Member of:
• Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
• Association of Polar Early Career Scientists