McLennan, Donald

Donald McLennan is senior scientist and researcher at Polar Knowledge Canada, based at the Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS) in Cambridge Bay, NU. He completed a Bachelor of Science at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB, a Master of Science in palynology at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC, and then a PhD in forest ecology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver. Donald worked man years for the Parks Canada Agency, where he was the national ecological integrity monitoring ecologist, building and heading up a team of monitoring ecologists that designed and implemented condition and effectiveness monitoring in all 42 national parks in Canada. Donald also led Parks Canada inventory initiatives and worked with an intergovernmental team to develop and apply terrestrial ecosystem mapping methods in arctic national parks to support the development of park monitoring programs and climate change adaptation strategies. Donald has also worked much of his career as a consulting ecologist in British Columbia, where he owned Oikos Ecological Services, a small consulting company specializing in ecosystem based management and ecosystem mapping. Through his work for Polar Knowledge Canada at CHARS in Nunavut, he is presently conducting baseline inventories of tundra ecosystems to support the implementation of long term monitoring experiments in the CHARS Experimental and Reference Area (CHARS ERA), and to support the work of visiting scientists.

Sackville, NB
Burnaby, BC
Vancouver
Cambridge Bay, NU

Scientist
Researcher
Ecologist
Consultant

RAD, July 2008 version. Canadian Council of Archives.

Catalogued August 2023.

1) Archival material
2) https://www.arcticfocus.org/users/Donald_McLennan/
3) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Donald-Mclennan-4
4) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Donald-Mclennan
5) https://t2environnement.com/en/arctic-soil-inventory/