Heather Proctor, University of Alberta
Biological Sciences
Professor
Edmonton, Alberta
hproctor@ualberta.ca
Office:
(780) 492-5704
Expert In
Bio/Research
My first academic position was as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Queen's University in Ontario. There I continued my dual life as an acarologist/pollination ecologist. I also met and married my husband, Dr. Dave Walter, who was then a Lecturer at the University of Queensla...
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Bio/Research
My first academic position was as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Queen's University in Ontario. There I continued my dual life as an acarologist/pollination ecologist. I also met and married my husband, Dr. Dave Walter, who was then a Lecturer at the University of Queensland in Australia. After three years of a very long-distance marriage, I moved to Queensland to take up a lecturer position at Griffith University. During my five years at Griffith I continued to work on water mites and other aquatic invertebrates, but expanded into soil-invertebrate ecology and feather mite taxonomy and biology. I also took part in a fruitful interdisciplinary project on assessment of rainforest restoration using plants, arthropods, vertebrates, forest structure, and various processes such as decomposition rate as indicators of 'success'. In 2002 there was an opening at the University of Alberta for a freshwater invertebrate biologist, and with the support of my husband and some good luck, I applied for and was awarded the position. This time I'm home for good.
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