with Honors in biology from Mount Allison University, during which he published a thesis titled Daytime spring migrations of scoters (Melanitta spp.)

[5] Bond completed a Ph.D. in 2011 at Memorial University of Newfoundland, with a doctoral thesis titled Relationships between oceanography and the demography & foraging of auklets (Charadriiformes, Alcidae: Aethia; Merrem 1788) in the Aleutian Islands.

[6] From 2011 to 2013, Bond held a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Saskatchewan.

[9] In 2020, Bond and Beth Montague-Hellen were jointly awarded the Royal Society Athena Prize for their contributions to LGBTQ+ representation in STEM fields.

[16][17][18][19][20] This research has led to the identification of a novel condition known as plasticosis, characterized by scarring of the digestive tracts of seabirds due to the ingestion of plastic waste, also referred to as plastic-induced fibrosis.