About
Dr. Joseph (Joe) Nocera is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Management, having joined the faculty in July 2016. His research focuses on issues of wildlife management. He got his BSc from Connecticut State, his MSc from Acadia University, and his PhD here at UNB.
From 2008 to 2016 he was a Research Scientist in Species-at-Risk with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources & Forestry, and a regular graduate faculty member at Trent University. These dual roles gave him the experience to ensure his students’ and his research fill a gap in fundamental wildlife science and serve an applied purpose by entering the policy stream. Many aspects of his work have defined new policy for several levels of government.
Joe’s research takes an integrative approach to cross-disciplinary questions in population ecology by modeling wildlife-habitat relationships from a management perspective. He has used field experiments, comparative and meta-analyses, and behavioural, ecological, and physiological datasets to address these questions. He largely now works in forested systems, although he has addressed conservation issues using data from a wide range of habitat types (ranging from aquatic to agricultural).
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Outside of academia, Joe volunteers for the John Howard Society of Saint John (link), where he is the chair of the Criminal Justice Advocacy Committee.
He is also an artist (of sorts)...see his artsy website