Kyle Wilson
LightNews LightNews
banner
klwilson.bsky.social
Kyle Wilson
@klwilson.bsky.social
150 followers 290 following 25 posts
Assistant Professor @SFU School of Resource and Environmental Management | former quantitative ecologist @ Central Coast Indigenous Resource Alliance | studies fisheries, marine conservation, & resilience | D&D DM | baseball | he/him
Posts Replies Media Videos
klwilson.bsky.social
SFU News story that covers our new paper on coho salmon declines in the North and Central Coast of BC.

www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stor...
Anglers delight in salmon returns, but SFU study warns of coho population collapse
www.sfu.ca
October 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
klwilson.bsky.social
Check out our new paper on downscaling the safe operating space approach to understand impacts from cumulative effects and climate change for salmon watersheds
October 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
klwilson.bsky.social
New paper highlighting the complex landscape of cumulative effects policies for Pacific salmon. Nice job @ulaskimarta.bsky.social
ulaskimarta.bsky.social Marta Ulaski @ulaskimarta.bsky.social · Sep 3
New paper! #fishsci #bcpoli

Our study reveals that Pacific salmon in British Columbia face a fragmented policy landscape that fails to manage the combined impacts of industrial development and climate change.

Read the paper here:
www.facetsjournal.com/doi/epdf/10....

Thread with key take-aways 👇
Pacific salmon suffer from a myriad of cuts, laws, and jurisdictions. Pacific salmon are facing unprecedented pressures from a multitude of stressors – all regulated under separate laws that rarely account for their combined impact. Image shows the salmon life cycle impacted by numerous human activities including mines, urban development, forest harvest, crop production, ports, aquaculture, predator control, fishing, hatchery operations, and CO2 emissions. Each activity is connected to various laws and policies across multiple jurisdictions (e.g., municipal, federal, provincial, and international). A pathway forward for managing multiple stressors: Collaborative, on-the-ground monitoring can support flexible and cautious management, enabling regional CEAs can help align decision-making with true scale of environmental and social risks, and local limits can be set by establishing legal objectives through spatial planning.
September 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
klwilson.bsky.social
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
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 ...
cdnsciencepub.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
klwilson.bsky.social
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
July 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
klwilson.bsky.social
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.
ecoinvasions.bsky.social Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · May 23
"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
May 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
klwilson.bsky.social
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.
klwilson.bsky.social Kyle Wilson @klwilson.bsky.social · Jan 28
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!
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.
March 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
klwilson.bsky.social
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.
biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · Mar 3
Using fisheries risk assessment to inform precautionary and collaborative management in a declining coho salmon fishery https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.26.640431v1
March 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
klwilson.bsky.social
Deadline for this PhD application for an exciting and collaborative project is coming up on February 21st.
klwilson.bsky.social Kyle Wilson @klwilson.bsky.social · Jan 28
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!
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.
February 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
klwilson.bsky.social
#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
Postdoctoral researcher opportunity at SFU in the School of Resource and Environmental Management on social-ecological traps in salmon hatcheries.
January 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
klwilson.bsky.social
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.
January 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
klwilson.bsky.social
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!
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.
January 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
klwilson.bsky.social
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!
December 24, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Reposted by Kyle Wilson
sharkcolin.bsky.social
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...
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
December 6, 2024 at 9:05 PM
klwilson.bsky.social
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
December 4, 2024 at 5:06 PM
klwilson.bsky.social
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!

#newPI
November 16, 2024 at 7:45 PM
klwilson.bsky.social
NSERC Discovery Grant: submitted.

#NewPI #academia
a close up of a man 's face with the words it 's done on the bottom
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words it 's done on the bottom
media.tenor.com
October 30, 2024 at 5:16 AM
klwilson.bsky.social
Long weekend? Long weekend trying to defeat my NSERC Discovery Grant. I think it is defeating me.

#NewPI #academia #AcademicSky
a cartoon of spongebob using a vacuum cleaner and iron
ALT: a cartoon of spongebob using a vacuum cleaner and iron
media.tenor.com
October 15, 2024 at 12:40 AM
klwilson.bsky.social
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.

authors.elsevier.com/c/1jRozbiU21...

#fish #fisheries #oceans
July 23, 2024 at 5:24 PM