Gail Fraser is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, where she teaches ecology and conservation science. Gail has worked on waterbirds for over three decades (Forster’s terns, crested auklets thick-billed murres, Leach’s storm petrels, and Manx shearwaters) and currently, has a monitoring program on double-crested cormorants in Toronto. Driven by an interest in seabird conservation, Gail also works on policy-oriented research on the environmental management of offshore oil and gas extraction.

Gail did her MSc at North Dakota State University and her PhD at Memorial University of Newfoundland and was a post-doctoral fellow at York University (with Bridget Stutchbury) and Texas A & M Galveston (with environmental lawyer W. von Zharen).

Gail is also a musician, novelist, and gardener.