Samuel Robinson, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Researching conservation and agriculture in working landscapes, and using science to improve agricultural sustainability in Canada.

Sam joined the IWWR team in 2024, and will be working on improving knowledge of agricultural ecosystem services, and identifying practices that benefit both agriculture and biodiversity. Originally from the West Coast, his work has led him everywhere from Carnation Creek, BC, to Ellesmere Island, NU, to Lethbridge, AB, and more recently, to Oak Hammock Marsh, MB. Sam brings ecological, agricultural, and analytical experience to the IWWR team that he will use to help develop regionally-specific sustainable agricultural practices that will be useful to farmers and wildlife alike.

Education:

Ph.D., Biology, University of Calgary
M.Sc., Biogseosciences, University of British Columbia
B.Sc., Biogeosciences, University of British Columbia

Publications:

Kutby, R., B. Baer-Imhoof, S. Robinson, L. Porter, and B. Baer. 2024. The effect of hive type on colony homeostasis and performance in the honey bee (Apis mellifera). Insects 15:800.

Neame, T., S.V.J. Robinson, and P. Galpern. 2024. Proximity to non-crop vegetation increases estimates of predation frequency but not beetle numbers. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment 373:109133.

Carcamó, H., Herle, C., Schwinghamer, T., Robinson, S.V.J, Reid, P., Gabert, K., Wist, T., Tidemann, B., and Costamagna, A. 2024. Revising economic injury levels for Lygus spp. in canola: The value of historical yield and insect data to improve decision making. Crop Protection 176:106467.

Li, Y., S.V.J. Robinson, L.H. Nguyen, and J. Liu. 2023. Satellite prediction of coastal hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Remote Sensing of Environment 284:113346.

Robinson, S.V.J., T. Schwinghamer, H. Carcamó, and P. Galpern. 2023. Precision agricultural data and ecosystem services: Can we put the pieces together? Ecological Solutions and Evidence 4:e12271.

Robinson, S.V.J., R.V. Cartar, S.F. Pernal, R. Waytes, and S.E. Hoover. 2023. Bee visitation, pollination service, and crop yield in commodity and hybrid seed canola. Agriculture, Ecosystem, and Environment 347:108396.

Hennig, B.C., S.-F. Hwang, V.P. Manolii, G. Turnbull, S.V.J. Robinson, and S.E. Strelkov. 2022. Evaluation of host resistance, hydrated lime, and weed control to manage clubroot in canola. Horticulturae 8:215.

Nguyen, L.H., S.V.J. Robinson, and P. Galpern. 2022. Effects of landscape complexity on crop productivity: An assessment from space. Agriculture, Ecosystem, and Environment 328:107849.

Nguyen, L.H., S.V.J. Robinson, and P. Galpern. 2022. Medium-resolution multispectral satellite imagery in precision agriculture: Mapping precision canola (Brassica napus L.) yield using Sentinel-2 time series. Precision Agriculture 23:1051-1071.

Robinson, S.V.J, L.H. Nguyen, and P. Galpern. 2022. Livin’ on the edge: Precision yield data shows evidence of ecosystem services from field boundaries. Agriculture, Ecosystem, and Environment 333: 107956.

Robinson, S.V.J., S.E. Hoover, S.F. Pernal, and R.V. Cartar. 2022. Optimal distributions of central-place foragers: Honey bee foraging in a mass flowering crop. Behavioral Ecology 33:386–397.

Robinson, S.V.J., D. Edwards, J.L. Vickruck, L.R. Best, and P. Galpern. 2021. Non-crop sources of beneficial arthropods vary within-season across a prairie agroecosystem. Agriculture, Ecosystem, and Environment 320:107581.

Robinson, S.V.J. 2019. Central-place foraging, crop yield, and population change in bees: A study in canola agroecosystems. Dissertation, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Robinson, S.V.J., and G.H.R. Henry. 2018. High Arctic plants show independent responses to pollination and experimental warming. Botany 96:385–396.

Robinson, S.V.J., G. Losapio, and G.H.R. Henry. 2018. Flower-power: Flower diversity is a stronger predictor of network structure than insect diversity in an Arctic plant-pollinator network. Ecological Complexity 36:1–6.

Hassan, M.A., S.V.J. Robinson, H. Voepel, J. Lewis, and T.E. Lisle. 2014. Mixed-effects modeling of bedload transport in a gravel-bed stream. Geomorphology 219:260–269.

Robinson, S.V.J. 2014. Insect pollination and experimental warming in the High Arctic. Thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Robinson, S.V.J. 2011. Plant-Pollinator Interactions at Alexandra Fiord, Nunavut. Trail Six: An Undergraduate Journal of Geography 5:13–20.