Keith Somers

Holds adjunct associate professorship with University of Toronto,conjunct professorship with Trent University, and adjunct professorships at York and Nipissing universities.
Responsible for program delivery and safe operation of Dorset Environmental Science Centre as Site Supervisor since 2000.
Scientific lead on studies of long-term changes of lake and stream benthic macroinvertebrate communities and crayfish populations.
Collaborates with colleagues who have collected long-term data sets on biota and chemistry of small, softwater lakes to develop statistical methods for examining temporal coherence.
Works on statistical methods to characterize normal, reference, or background conditions to evaluate ecological significance of environmental impacts.

Received Environmental Commissioner’s Recognition Award for work on the Ministry’s Ambient Environmental Monitoring Network in 2004.
Received Ministry of the Environment Staff Achievement Award for Research and Technology Development in 1998.
Co-authored 50 articles in refereed journals and more than 150 presentations at conferences and scientific meetings.
Most recent publications – see the special issue on 30 years of science at the Dorset Environmental Science Centre in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences – May 2008.

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