Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution

The Canadian Institute of Ecology and Evolution (CIEE) is a national organization that sponsors scientific programs aimed at synthesizing information on natural systems, developing new theory and providing unbiased scientific assessments on the ecological and evolutionary aspects of public policy. The CIEE is operated by a consortium of Canadian universities, including Carleton University, McGill University, University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto. In addition, CIEE is supported by the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, the national learned society.

Individual research groups in ecology and evolution engage in programs of discovery that are motivated by broad conceptual questions. By necessity, however, each group focuses on one or a few biological systems—a species, an ecosystem, a gene, a lineage—whose particularities may obscure underlying generalities. CIEE programs bring together top scientists working on diverse systems to pool data and do the higher level analyses that can resolve disparate interpretations, yield novel insights, catalyze theory development and identify promising new areas of inquiry. In short, CIEE seeks to accelerate scientific progress by fostering working interactions in ways that standard organizations cannot.

The objectives of CSEE are:
(1) to promote the study of ecology and evolution in Canada
(2) to raise public awareness of the importance of ecology and evolution to Canadian Society
(3) to facilitate communication between members of the Society and decision-makers in the public, private and non-governmental sectors
(4) to act as a liaison with Federal and Provincial funding agencies to support and promote ecological and evolutionary research in Canada