Louise Archer

Louise is a Polar Bears International Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Her research combines ecological modelling and bioenergetics to understand how polar bear populations will respond to rapid Arctic warming and resulting declines in sea ice.

She earned a BSc in Zoology from University College Cork (Ireland), an MSc in Computational Biology from Imperial College London (UK) followed by a PhD in Ecology from University College Cork, where she focused on the effects of warming temperatures and reduced food availability brown trout energetics. Louise’s passion for northerly ecosystems was ignited by her time spent doing research in Iceland.

For her postdoc at University of Toronto Scarborough, she is using bioenergetic theory to develop models of polar bear energy uptake and expenditure (termed “energy budgets”).