• Professor, School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo

Brendon is interested in how people's relationship to nature and their conservation actions are being influenced by interwoven ecological, social, and technological changes. He identifies as a social scientist, but his work is highly interdisciplinary because it draws on his connection to other beings, as a life-long naturalist, as well as his initial training in biodiversity science (evolutionary ecology and taxonomy). His current book project with McGill-Queen's University Press – expected to be published in Summer 2026 – collates his decades of experience across these domains: its working title is "The Naturalists' Paradox: How Our Love for Nature May Harm It." For further information about his research, please visit his website

• –present Professor, University of Waterloo

• 2004 University of California at Santa Barbara, PhD
• 1997 University of Toronto, MSc
• 1994 University of Guelph, BSc

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