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  SHOSHANAH JACOBS, PH.D.
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Publications 

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Education 

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, in press.

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. 

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. 

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. 

​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. 

Hobbins*, J., Eisenbach, M., Jacobs, S., & Ritchie, K. (2016).  Residence learning communities at Canadian comprehensive institutions.   Teaching and Learning Innovations Journal, 18.

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. 

Jacobs, S. (2015).  Reversing the process of learning.   Teaching and Learning Innovations Journal, 17. 

​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. 
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Knowledge translation and transfer in Biomimetics

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.

Wanieck*, K., Fayemi, P., Zollfrank, C., & Jacobs, S. R. (2017).  Tools to support and facilitate biomimetics.   Bioinspired, biomimetic, and nanobiomaterials, 6 (2), 53-66. 

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. 

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. 

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Seabird Ecology

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.

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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