Kyle Wilson

Faculty Positions

We are hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Indigenous Environmental Governance and Management. Very excited for this position.

Please circulate widely among your networks:
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Cover of Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences highlighting the most read article in 2025 with aquatic plant imagery.

Our most read article of 2025 compiles freshwater life-cycle timing of Pacific salmon and steelhead in Canada. Read it now ▶️ https://ow.ly/NZV850XVOgo

👥 Samantha M. Wilson and Stephanie J. Peacock

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Check out this unique opportunity for international PhDs and postdocs looking to do some great research in Canada

Anglers delight in salmon returns, but SFU study warns of coho population collapse

SFU News story that covers our new paper on coho salmon declines in the North and Central Coast of BC.

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Check out our new paper on downscaling the safe operating space approach to understand impacts from cumulative effects and climate change for salmon watersheds

Thanks, it took a good long while to make!

New paper highlighting the complex landscape of cumulative effects policies for Pacific salmon. Nice job @ulaskimarta.bsky.social

Using fisheries risk assessment to inform precautionary and collaborative management in a declining coho salmon fishery The conservation and management of Pacific salmon in Canada faces an uncertain future. While fisheries policies, like Canada's Wild Salmon Policy, increasingly emphasize conservation, salmon continue ...

New paper out in @cjfas.bsky.social on coho salmon on the North and Central Coast of B.C. (open access).

Using fisheries risk assessment to inform precautionary and collaborative management in a declining coho salmon fishery cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....

#fish #salmon #fisheries #oceans

I've now been an assistant professor at SFU for a year now! It's been an exciting but busy time - glad to see the research lab coming along.

Balancing all the demands across teaching, research, and service can be hard at times but very rewarding as well.

Still lots to learn!

#newPI #academia

Yes please! As a new PI, I am finding that my time is too easily soaked up in administrative busy work and meetings about meetings.

We are still recruiting a PhD student for this awesome position on Pacific salmon collaborating with Heiltsuk First Nation, the Wild Salmon Center, and Hakai Institute.

If interested, let me know if you have any questions.

Here is a bioRxiv link to our draft paper on long-term changes in coho salmon population dynamics in the North & Central Coast of British Columbia.

Deadline for this PhD application for an exciting and collaborative project is coming up on February 21st.

Interested applicants can get in touch with me for additional questions.

Postdoctoral researcher opportunity at SFU in the School of Resource and Environmental Management on social-ecological traps in salmon hatcheries.

#Postdoc opportunity with us here at SFU REM in the Fisheries Management Lab. The Postdoc will focus on understanding social-ecological traps in #salmon hatcheries. Diverse research partners, approaches, and datasets. See attached for application details.

Please share widely. #fisheries

Absolutely awful to hear the news coming out re: US federal agency workers and freeze on US federal grants.

These executive orders impact some great people that are doing important jobs that really benefit society.

Unfortunate to see the (yet again) wild decisions from the Trump White House.

Should be a great project for folks interested in quantitative ecology, Pacific salmon conservation and management, and co-developing research.

Feel free to contact me with any questions.

In partnership with the Heiltsuk Integrated Resources Management Department, the Wild Salmon Center, and Hakai Institute, the Fisheries Management Lab at Simon Fraser University (SFU) is seeking to hire a PhD Student in quantitative fisheries ecology to work on the collaborative Ocean and Freshwater Ecosystem Indicator project to understand Pacific salmon ecology and population dynamics in the Central Coast.

We seek a PhD student who can implement quantitative analyses of Pacific salmon and work alongside Heiltsuk and agency science partners to assess questions of interest for the collaborative project. The successful candidate will have: MSc or equivalent experience in fisheries ecology; A track record of communicating science to community partners; Work effectively in a collaborative team; Experience running quantitative analyses on ecological data Some related background or interests in salmon systems or fisheries Awareness of inclusive research practices with Indigenous communities Salary: funding for this position comes from a combination of HIRMD and SFU sourcing covering a guarantee of four (4) years for the PhD Candidate subject to SFU policies and is anticipated to be ~$35,000 CAD. Application: Applicants should email a CV and a brief cover letter to Dr. Kyle Logan Wilson (kl_wilson@sfu.ca) with the subject: “2025 Ocean and Freshwater Ecosystem Indicators application”. Applications will be reviewed starting on February 21, 2025. Please note: Your CV should reference relevant work and educational experience and contact information for three (3) professional references; Your cover letter should be two (2) pages or less and should: ·Highlight relevant experience and quantitative expertise; ·Specific interest and potential research directions for this project; ·Communicate the timing of your availability. The application should be submitted as pdf files and the file names should start with the applicant’s last name.

Another PhD opportunity in our lab.

We seek a PhD student applicant to study how ocean and freshwater changes affect Pacific salmon in the Central Coast. Partners include: Heiltsuk First Nation, the Wild Salmon Center, and Hakai Institute. See attached advertisement. Please circulate widely!

For those interested, feel free to ask me any questions here or over email!

Merry Xmas eve, eve!

We are looking for a PhD student applicant interested in working on Pacific salmon, quantitative ecology, and collaborative fisheries management with the Central Coast First Nations. See attached advertisement. Please circulate widely!

Yesterday our new #globalsharktrends paper came out in @science.org
@nickdulvy.bsky.social did a great thread on the paper and included some GIFs that we had made but they did not play here on @bsky.app
I'm hoping this now works.
Status change through time...
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End of my first semester at SFU. Was a bit of a grind at times (most of the time?) but glad to have some time back to pick up some research again!

#newPI

Thanks!

Thank you!

Kyle Logan Wilson ‪Assistant Professor | Simon Fraser University‬ - ‪‪Cited by 786‬‬ - ‪Fisheries‬ - ‪Ecology‬ - ‪Conservation Biology‬

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I'm aiming to develop a lab handbook next semester to provide a resource on field and lab safety training, research expectations, funding and scholarship opportunities, EDI measures, managing collaborations, etc.

Any tips or resources folks want to share would be most helpful!

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NSERC Discovery Grant: submitted.

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Long weekend? Long weekend trying to defeat my NSERC Discovery Grant. I think it is defeating me.

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In a recent paper, we tested the idea that Gulf of Mexico Bluefin Tuna mature and spawn at later ages than the Mediterranean.

In general, we found similar patterns between populations but tremendous variation among individuals.

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