Burton Lim
Class of 2013
Burton Lim received a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Toronto, and is an assistant curator of mammalogy at the Royal Ontario Museum. He has an interest in journalistic reporting on biological discovery with an emphasis on bridging the gap between communicating academic research to the general public through various forms of media, including print and social.
Crowd sourcing science: Professional biologists team up with over 500 amateur naturalists for a ‘Bio-Blitz’ in Toronto’s Humber River
‘Let’s just say an unbearable smell was emitted’: How do you reduce a blue whale to a pile of bones?
Biodiversity bonanza: Guyana’s Rupununi
How ‘biology’s Indiana Jones’ discovered a tiny, bizarre suction-cup bat in the western Amazon
Urban Scrawl: Every year thousands of birds die. Some go to researchers, others are kept as ‘museum specimens’
DNA barcoding on the verge of revolutionizing everyday life
They Only Come Out at Night
Bats and more: an astonishing array of wildlife greets visitors to Borneo’s Gunung Mulu
‘It’s good to have fun sometimes’: Scientists divided over appropriateness of using sex to market their work
Barcode of Life: Guelph-based DNA database a digital Noah’s ark aiming to ID all living organisms
How I discovered a new species of opossum, and why it matters
Outer limits in brain science
Air Canada can refuse to ship monkeys for research, agency rules
Decoding the DNA code: What is a Genome?
Loss of bats to white-nose disease could hurt Ontario farm economy
