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Jordan Ahee (born January 8, 1985) is a biologist for the |Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry where he works on the Far North Biodiversity Project.

Background
Ahee grew up in the hamlet of Bridgenorth near Peterborough, Ontario.

Education
He graduated from Adam Scott High School in 2003. Ahee attended Trent University where he received his Bachelor of Science in Biology in 2011. During this time, Ahee discovered a new species of insect (Stenodiplosis phragmicola) that parasitizes invasive common reed ([|Phragmites australis|Phragmites australis]) one of the worst invasive plants in North America. He then went on to write a research paper focused on this in The Canadian Entomologist with co-authors Dr. Marcel Dorken and Dr. Brad Sinclair.