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Education 

Porter, E., Luo, M. X., Lit, B., McKechnie, I., Saha, J., Ratra, P., ... & Gillis, D. (2022). Developing a Transdisciplinary Citizen Science Tool for Experiential Learning in Undergraduate Education: Squirrel Life in a Nutshell. In INTED2022 Proceedings (pp. 1781-1790). IATED.

Jacobs, S., Smith, M.A., Robertson, L, Rea, V., & Bingham, B. (2022). On the importance of inclusive access to instructors. University Affairs. 
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/career-advice-article/the-importance-of-inclusive-access-to-instructors/

Porter, E., Beltran, M, & Jacobs, S. (2022) Curricular nature-based learning in higher education to support mental and environmental health. Health Sciences Inquiry. In press. 

Bingham, B., Rea, V., Robertson, L., Smith, M. Alex, & Jacobs, S. (2022).  Frequency, topic, and preferences: Tracking student engagement with several modalities of instructor-student contact in a first-year course.  
 FEBS Open Bio., doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2211-5463.13315

Bingham, B., Coulter, C., Cottenie, K., & Jacobs, S. (2021).  A metacognitive instructional guide to support effective studying strategies.  
 Canadian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 12 (1), 5, doi: https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2021.1.8318.

Robertson, L., Porter, E., Smith, M. Alex, & Jacobs, S. (2021).  Evidence-based course modification to support learner-centered and student-driven teaching in a global pandemic: Leveraging digital and physical space for accessible, equitable, and motivating experiential learning and scientific inquiry in a first-year biology course.  
 International Journal of Higher Education, 10 (7), 96-109.

Jacobs, S., Mishra, C., Doherty, E., Nelson, J., Duncan, E., Fraser, E.D.G., Hodgins, K., Mactaggart, W., Gillis, D. (2021).  Transdisciplinary, community-engaged pedagogy for undergraduate and graduate student engagement in challenging times.  
 International Journal of Higher Education, 10 (7), 84-95.

Sigal*, M. and Jacobs, S. (2019). “Providing scaffolding: An Applied Analysis on the Efficacy of 4U and University Level Preparatory STEM Courses”. Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.5206/cjsotl-rcacea.2019.1.7996

Newton, G., Poung*, K., Laila*, A., Bye*, Z., Bettger, W., Cottenie, K., Dawson, J., Graether, S.P., Jacobs, S., Murrant, C., and Zettyl, J. (2019).  Perception of Biology Instructors on Using Student Evaluations to Inform Their Teaching.   International Journal of Higher Education, 8 (1), 133, doi: 10.5430/ijhe.v8n1p133.

Hobbins*, J. O., Eisenbach, M., Ritchie, K. L., & Jacobs, S. (2018).  Investigating the relationship between residence learning community participation and student academic outcomes in a Canadian institution.   Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 9 (2): article 7. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1192646

Cash-Barlow*, C., Letargo*, J., Graether, S., & Jacobs, S. (2017).  An analysis of the perceptions and resources of large university classes.   CBE Life Sciences Education, 16 (33), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.16-01-0004

Gillis, D., Nelson*, J., Driscoll*, B., Hodgins, K., Fraser, E., Jacobs, S. (2017).  Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research and Education in Canada: A Review and Suggested Framework.   Collected Essays in Learning and Teaching, 10, 203-222. https://doi.org/10.22329/celt.v10i0.4745

​Manley*, B., Elliot, S., & Jacobs, S. (2017).  Expedition Cruising in the Canadian Arctic: Visitor Motives and the Influence of Education Programming on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviours.   Resources, 6 (3), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3390/resources6030023

Hobbins*, J., Eisenbach, M., Jacobs, S., & Ritchie, K. (2016).  Residence learning communities at Canadian comprehensive institutions.   Teaching and Learning Innovations Journal, 18. https://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/tli/article/view/3554

Jacobs, S. & Gillis, D. (2016).  Innovation through transdisciplinary training.   Zygote Quarterly, 2, 80-89. 

Landry*, A., Jacobs, S. R., & Newton, G. (2015).  Use of Peer Assessment in a Graduate Level Writing Assignment.   International Journal of Higher Education, 4 (1), 38-51.  https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1060621

Jacobs, S. (2015).  Reversing the process of learning.   Teaching and Learning Innovations Journal, 17. https://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/tli/article/view/3128 

​Jacobs, S., Bender, S., & McAdam, A. (2015).  The Dandelion Outreach Program: Learning through inquiry-based community engagement.   Evolution: Education and Outreach, 8, 4, doi: 10.1186/s12052-015-0033-8. ​https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-015-0033-8
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Knowledge translation and transfer in Biomimetics

Jacobs, S., Eggermont, M., Helms, M., & Wanieck, K. (2022). The Education Pipeline of Biomimetics and Its Challenges. Biomimetics, 7(3), 93.

Jacobs, S., & Wanieck, K. (2022). 
Biom*: on becoming a teachable discipline (invited).  In Eggermont, M, Shyam, V, and Hepp, AF (Eds.), Biomimicry for Materials, Design and Habitats: Innovations and Applications. Elsevier.

​Wanieck, K., Ritzinger, D., Zollfrank, C., & Jacobs, S. (2020).  Biomimetics: Teaching the tools of the trade.   FEBS Open Bio., doi: 10.1002/2211-5463.12963.
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Chirazi, J., Wanieck, K., Fayemi, P., Zollfrank, C., & Jacobs, S. (2019).  What do we learn from good practices of Biologically-inspired Design in innovation?   Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering, 9, 650. https://doi.org/10.3390/app9040650

Wanieck*, K., Fayemi, P., Zollfrank, C., & Jacobs, S. R. (2017).  Biomimetics and its tools. Bioinspired, biomimetic, and nanobiomaterials, 6 (2), 53-66. https://doi.org/10.1680/jbibn.16.00010

Hoeller, N., Farnsworth, M., Jacobs, S., Chirazi, J., Salustri, F., et al. (2016).  A Systems View of Bioinspiration: Bridging the Gaps. INSIGHT, 19 (1), 36-40. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Taryn-Mead/publication/294894518_A_Systems_View_of_Bioinspiration_Bridging_the_Gaps/links/5ae1f2bc458515c60f66ec04/A-Systems-View-of-Bioinspiration-Bridging-the-Gaps.pdf 

Jacobs, S. (2014).  Biomimetics: a simple foundation will lead to new insight about process.   International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics, 9 (2), 83-94. 

​Jacobs, S., Nichols*, E., & Helms, M. (2014).  Where are we now and where are we going? The BioM Innovation Database.   Journal of Mechanical Design, 136., doi: 10.1115/1.4028171.  ​https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4028171

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Ecology

Kahane-Rapport, S. R., Whelan, S., Ammendolia, J., Hatch, S. A., Elliott, K. H., & Jacobs, S. (2022). Food supply and individual quality influence seabird energy expenditure and reproductive success. Oecologia, 199(2), 367-376.

Ammendolia, J., Saturno, J., Bond, A. L., O'hanlon, N. J., Masden, E. A., James, N. A., & Jacobs, S. (2022). Tracking the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic-related debris on wildlife using digital platforms. Science of The Total Environment, 848, 157614.

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​Ammendolia, J., Saturno, J., Brooks, A. L., Jacobs, S., & Jambeck, J. R. (2020). An emerging source of plastic pollution: Environmental presence of plastic personal protective equipment (PPE) debris related to COVID-19 in a metropolitan city. Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987), 269, 116160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2020.116160

Dolson, SJ., Loewen, E., Jones, K., Jacobs, SR., Solis, A., Hallwachs, W., Brunke, AJ., Janzen, DH., and Smith, MA. (2021). Diversity and phylogenetic community structure across elevation during climate change in a family of hyperdiverse neotropical beetles (Staphylinidae). Ecography, 44(5), 740-752. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05427

Ammendolia, J., Saturno, J., Jacobs, SR. (2020) Environmental concern emerges from COVID-19 pandemic: PPE waste by the public. Can. Sci. Policy Cent. https://sciencepolicy.ca/posts/environmental-concern-emerges-from-covid-19-pandemic-ppe-waste-by-the-public/

Collins, S., Hatch, S., Elliott, K., & Jacobs, S. (2019).  Investigating neophobia as a behavioural syndrome to measure mate choice and reproductive success in Rissa tridactyla.   Animal Behaviour, 154, 67-74.

Cunningham, J., Elliott, K., Cottenie, K., Hatch, S., & Jacobs, S. (2018).  Individual foraging location, but not dietary, specialization: implications for rhinoceros auklets as samplers of forage fish. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 605, 225-240.

Gibson*, D., Adamowicz, S., Jacobs, S., & Smith, A. (2018).  Host specificity in subarctic aphids.   Environmental Entomology, 47 (1), 77-86.

Braune, B., Jacobs, S. R., & Gaston, A. (2018).  Variation in organochlorine and mercury levels in first and replacement eggs of a single-egg clutch breeder, the thick-billed murre, at a breeding colony in the Canadian Arctic.The Science of the Total Environment, 610-611, 462-468. 

Cunningham*, J., Le Vaillant, M., Gaston, A., Roper-Coudert, Y., Kato, A., Jacobs, S., Elliott, K. (2017).  Reduced activity during middle-age for thick-billed murres (Uria lomvia): evidence for age-related trends in fine-scale foraging behaviour.   Animal Behaviour, 126, 271-280. 

Jacobs, S., Elliott, K. H., & Gaston, T. (2013).  Parents are a drag: long lived birds share costs with their offspring. PLoS ONE, 8:e54594. 

Jacobs, S., Elliott, K. H., Gaston, A. J., Guigueno, M. F., Redman, P., J. R. Speakman, and J.M. Weber (2012).  Determining seabird body condition using non-lethal measures.   Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 85, 85-95, doi: 85:85-95. 

Jacobs, S., Edwards, D., Ringrose, J., Elliott, K. H., Weber, J. M., Gaston, A.J. (2011).  Changes in body composition during breeding: Reproductive strategies of three seabird species under poor environmental condition.   Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 158, 77-82, doi: B 158:77-82

Jacobs, S., Elliott, K. H., Gaston, A. J., & Weber, J. M. (2009).  Fatty acid signatures of female Brunnich's guillemots suggests reliance on local prey for replacement egg production.   Journal of Avian Biology, 40, 327-336. 

Elliott, K. H., Jacobs, S., Ringrose, J., Gaston, A. J., & Davoren, G. K. (2008).  Is mass loss in Brunnich's guillemots Uria Iomvia an adaptation for improved flight performance or improved diver performance?   Journal of Avian Biology, 39, 619-628, doi: 39:619-628. 
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