Hi! I'm (she/her) a Postdoc in the Quantitative Biodiversity Lab at McGill University working on how to measure biodiversity change. 📈🦉🐟🦎🐿🐳🐢
https://katherinehebert.github.io/
Katherine Hébert
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So many indicators, so little time! ⏰ We wrote a guide to streamline the choice of indicators for tracking biodiversity targets, thanks to key criteria, evaluation sheets, and most importantly - collaborations! 🌱 @biodiversite-quebec.ca
Last week, I had the very cool opportunity to talk about Blitz the Gap (our Canada-wide initiative to fill biodiversity data gaps this summer blitzthegap.org) on Moteur de Recherche at Radio-Canada. I had a blast! Listen here (in French) 🔊 shorturl.at/lJisw
Blitz the Gap was recently featured in Le Devoir with an action shot of @laura-pollock.bsky.social blitzing the gap! 🌱 Seems crazy that there are only 9 days left to the project's first summer to fill gaps in Canadian #biodiversity data with #iNaturalist. We've reached >2,500,000 observations!
Katherine Hébert
For biodiversity indicators to influence decisions, we need to trust them - and to trust them, we need to test them.
Happy to share our new paper about how to do that (for genetic diversity) with @seanmhoban.bsky.social & @laura-pollock.bsky.social 😊
📝 doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2026.111824
pollocklab.github.io/blitz-the-ga...
This summer, we are trying to Blitz the Gap 🕵️ in our knowledge about species 🦇🐛🦉🐟🐸🌿 that haven't been seen for 15, 30 or 50+ years in Canada!
Check it out!👇
Peter Soroye @wcscanada.org explains how @inaturalist.bsky.social data factors into Key Biodiversity Areas (@keybiodiversity.bsky.social).
Join them in Blitz The Gap 2025! blitzthegap.org
#CSEE2025
This map ⬇️ is from a challenge I designed that encourages people to go out and observe the major group of taxa 🐟🍄🐍🪲🦫🪻 that is unusually under-represented in their county 🇨🇦
Katherine Hébert
This report just posted addresses one of the biggest questions that countries always ask about the genetic diversity indicators: how often and how much monitoring is needed for the Ne500 indicator, in realistic situations? ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... @katherinehebert.bsky.social
Katherine Hébert
In case you missed my talk at #CSEE2025, you can explore your own collaborative networks and see a little summary on my website!
www.lucaseckert.ca/side-project...
Katherine Hébert
Janaina Serrano
Lucas Eckert
Lucas Eckert
Aerin Jacob, PhD
Les espèces de la faune et de la flore canadiennes ont été répertoriées dans d’un projet scientifique citoyen.
New 📰| Selecting indicators to track progress towards the Global Biodiversity Framework: a case study of Quebec's 2030 Nature Plan 🐢 buff.ly/HJhGdaN
👥 @katherinehebert.bsky.social @src-rsc.bsky.social @usherbrooke.bsky.social @qcbs.ca @ulaval.ca
📷 Dagoberto Hernandez Acevedo
A series of 🏆 Challenges 🏆 were designed by graduate students, researchers, avid iNat users, conservation practioners, and more throughout Canada to highlight species and places that deserve a little more attention:
pollocklab.github.io/blitz-the-gap/
