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Tim Goater, Ph.D.

Office: Building 370, Room 112Tim Goater
Phone: 250-753-3245 (local 2325)
Fax: 250-740-6482
Email: Tim.Goater@viu.ca
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Research and Teaching Interests

  • Invertebrate Zoology
  • Ecological Parasitology
  • Entomology
  • Herpetology

Education

  • B.Sc. Brandon University, 1983
  • M.Sc. Wake Forest University, 1985
  • Ph.D. Wake Forest University, 1989

Supervision of Student Research

Since 1996, I have supervised and mentored 26 students at VIU. My students conduct ecological research on a variety of symbioses in terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments. These range from parasite population and community ecology, to the ecology of diverse marine invertebrate symbioses, and the ecology of insect herbivore and insect-plant gall–parasitoid interactions. Examples of six of these projects provide a flavour of the types of research conducted by my students over the years.

  • Shawn Stenhouse – Ecology of symbiotic pea crabs in marine bivalves.
  • Sara Skotarek – Monitoring strongyle nematode parasites in horses.
  • Nadine Simpson – Lung fluke parasitism in introduced bullfrogs.
  • Larissa Nelson – Ecology of gall wasps and parasitoids of thimbleberry plants.
  • Jennifer Waller – Effects of insect seed herbivores on germination of Garry Oak acorns.
  • Stefan Iwasawa – Population ecology of ticks of cane toads in Belize