Welcome!
I am a research scientist with the Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service [CFS profile 
]. My research program focuses on the landscape ecology of forest insects, primarily bark beetles, with special emphasis on linking patterns observed across space and through time to individual- and community-level processes. Within forest entomology, this incorporates fields of study such as plant-insect and predator-prey interactions, population dynamics, chemical ecology, and biometry, the application of statistical tools to novel ecological questions therein. Linking pattern and process across scales touches on a number of topics in natural resource management, such as insect outbreaks and disturbances, dispersal, sampling, changing climate, invasion biology, and biological control.
My program is based at the University of Northern British Columbia where I am an Assistant Professor (adjunct) within Natural Resources and Environmental Studies and the Ecosystem and Management Program.
If you are interested in graduate studies, training, or exploring collaborations with my program, please .
Education and background
| 2006-Present | Research Scientist, Canadian Forest Service |
| Assistant Professor (Adjunct), University of Northern British Columbia | |
| 2004-2005 | Visiting Fellow, Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian For. Service (Dr. Allan Carroll) |
| Research Associate, Entomology, University of Wisconsin (Dr. Kenneth Raffa) | |
| 1999-2003 | PhD, Entomology, University of Wisconsin (Dr. Kenneth Raffa) |
| MS, Biometry/Statistics, University of Wisconsin (Dr. Murray Clayton) | |
| 1997-1999 | MS, Entomology, University of Wisconsin (Dr. Kenneth Raffa) |
Selected publications
| 2008 | Aukema, B.H., Carroll, A.L., Zheng, Y., Zhu, J., Raffa, K.F., Moore, R.D., Stahl, K., and S.W. Taylor. Movement of outbreak populations of mountain pine beetle: Influence of spatiotemporal patterns and climate. Ecography 31: 348-358. | [518 KB  ] |
| 2008 | Raffa, K.F., Aukema, B.H., Bentz, B.J., Carroll, A.L., Hicke, J.A., Turner, M.G., and W. Romme. Cross-scale drivers of natural disturbances prone to anthropogenic amplification: Dynamics of biome-wide bark beetle eruptions. BioScience 58: 501-517. | [6.0 MB ] |
| 2006 | Aukema, B.H., Carroll, A.L., Zhu, J., Raffa, K.F., Sickley, T.A., and S.W. Taylor. Landscape level analysis of mountain pine beetle in British Columbia, Canada: Spatiotemporal development and spatial synchrony within the present outbreak. Ecography 29: 427-441. | [366 KB ] |
| 2004 | Aukema, B.H., and K.F. Raffa. Does aggregation benefit bark beetles by diluting predation? Links between a group-colonization strategy and the absence of multiple predator effects. Ecological Entomology 29(2): 129-138. | [296 KB ] |
| 2004 | Aukema, B.H., and K.F. Raffa. Gender- and sequence- dependent predation within group colonizers of defended plants: a constraint on cheating among bark beetles? Oecologia 138(2): 253-258. | [125 KB ] |
| 2002 | Aukema, B.H., and K.F. Raffa. Relative effects of exophytic predation, endophytic predation, and intraspecific competition on a subcortical herbivore: Consequences to the reproduction of Ips pini and Thanasimus dubius. Oecologia 133(4): 483-491. | [265 KB ] |
| 2000 | Aukema, B.H., Dahlsten, D.L., and K.F. Raffa. Improved population monitoring of bark beetles and predators by incorporating disparate behavioral responses to semiochemicals. Environmental Entomology 29: 618-629. | [215 KB ] |
A complete list of peer-reviewed publications can be found here.