Catalogue of Current Student Abstracts MSc Environmental Science

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2023 2022 2021 and prior

2023 Cohort

Student	Supervisor	Title
Atherton, Natalie	Prema	NMR Profiling of Beef
Atkinson, Kara	Larsen / Isaac	Small Mammal Communities in a grassland ecosystem: Historic Trends and Future Prospects
Brouwers, Tanya	Fraser	Measuring Carbon Cycling Changes in Soils Converted from Forests for Cattle Grazing to Cropping Systems for Cattle Grazing
Francis, Matthew	Church / Bork / Fraser	Precision Agriculture: Leveraging Remote Sensing and Virtual Fencing for Enhancing Sustainable Ranching Practices
Halcrow, Devin	Pypker	The Effectiveness of Various Hillslope Erosion Migration Treatments in Dry-Belt Fir Ecosystems Within the Interior of British Columbia
Jumeau, Olivier	Harvey	Time-after-fire regeneration of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) habitat in Ulkatcho Territory
Kang, Myung Jin (John)	Fraser	Silvopastoral soil carbon and microbial community effects from strip-thinning widths and grazing dynamics
Lloyd, Sylvie	Tsigaris	Assessing the Non-Market Value of the BC Wildlife Park
McLennan, Olivia	Van Hamme	Anaerobic microbial desulfonation of sulfonated perfluoroalkyl substances
Miller, Sydney	Reudink / McKeller	Tracking the long-distance migration and abundance of Wilson's phalaropes (Phalaropus tricolour) at saline lakes across the western hemisphere.
Schoen, Jacqueline	Reudink	Short -Term Effects of the Site C Dam and Reservoir on Bank Swallow Riparia riparia Populations Along the Peace River
Seal, Sean	Heise / Naman	Assessing Benthic Macroinvertebrate Community Responses to Post-Wildfire Hillslope Restoration Treatments in the Deadman River Watershed
Soames, Adam	Gardner	Sterilizing Excavated Soils Contaminated with Knotweed (Reynoutria) Propagules using Heat and Anoxia
Valle, Rosa	Mason	The Application of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Technologies in the pursuing of Sustainable Tourism Business for rural and small/middle cities communities
Werden, Shannon	Larsen / Burgar	The Effects of Habitat and Body Condition on Fishers (Pekania pennanti) in the Columbian Population in British Columbia

2022 Cohort

Student	Supervisor	Title
Baker, Keenan	Fraser	Cut it, seed it, graze it: Exploring economical methods to reduce woody species encroachment on pastureland in the Cariboo
Bezooyen, Kate	Flannigan	Trends in hourly weather and fire weather indices across different biogeoclimatic zones in British Columbia
Egeland, Joseph	Cheeptham / Donker	Towards designing a bioreactor for the BioLogix™ Product: Identification of microbial communities and their optimal growth conditions for in situ and ex situ hydrocarbon bioremediation
Freitag, Kelsey	Reudink / McKellar	Examining the Impacts of Climate Change and Habitat Loss on the Distribution and Abundance of Long-billed Curlews, a Species at Risk in Canada
Gidora, Samantha	Fraser / Larsen	eDNA air sampling for bats: implications for mine reclamation and closure
Martin, Thane	Rakobowchuk	The Effect of Dietary Salt on Vascular Health
Maslowski, Natalie	Harvey	Impacts of short-interval wildfire on forest regeneration in Glacier National Park, British Columbia
Modamori, Oluwayomi	Mohammed / Tawhid	Unraveling Key Factors of Wildfire Risks in British Columbia – Leveraging Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimization.
Powrie, Tay	Pypker	Investigating the future of glacier ice and melt processes in the North Shuswap
Robinson, Andrea	Harvey	Forest encroachment drivers, dynamics, and wildfire resiliency of grassland-forest ecotones in interior British Columbia
Sharafi, Komeil	Tawhid	Analysis and prediction of global warming using machine learning algorithms
Turner, Shae	Reudink	Evaluating the role of prealternate moult in carry-over effects from overwintering to migration for Neotropical migratory songbirds
Wester, Robert	Church	Development of the Climate Master Cattle
Whitehead, Lindsey	Larsen	Effects of Wildfire on Western Rattlesnake Population and Movement patterns
Wong, Calen	Larsen	Road Mortality Mitigation, Critical Habitat, and Comparative Movement for a Community of Threatened Snakes

2021 and Prior Cohort

Student	Supervisor	Title
Ajayi, Adetola	Fraser / Tsigaris	Invasive Species on British Columbia's Grasslands: Estimating The Benefits of Control Policies
Bahroudi, Behnaz	Fraser	Topsoil-till cover depth and amendments: Influence on Ecosystem Reclamation of Tailings Storage Facilities
Dulc, Susan	Larsen	Bat boxes are a conservation tool...but do they help or hinder?
Guo, Zhichao	Donkor	Characterization of Exchangeable and Total Recoverable Elements in Soils Treated with Ash Residuals
Makar, Brandon	Carlyle-Moses / Pypker	Stemflow and Stemflow Infiltration Areas for Isolated Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa) in a Semi-Arid Setting
McAmmond, Breanne	Van Hamme	Proteomic response of Gordonia sp. strain NB4-1Y provided with fluoroalkyl sulfonates for sulfur
McKelvey, Veronica	Larsen / Isaac	The chamber of secrets: uncovering the natural and not so natural overwintering behaviour of snakes
Morton, Ted	Mason	The Narcist of Land-Use Management: How mountain biking is challenging sustainable development in British Columbia’s rural and Indigenous communities
Oliver, Jacqueline	Flannigan	Predicting Largescale Wildland Fire Events in Canada and Alaska Using Convolutional Neural Networks that Pay Attention to Spatial Interactions
Peterson, Nicholas	Fraser / Gardner	Smoke'm if you got'em: germination and storage techniques on native seed for BC's interior grasslands
Shepherd, Leona	Flannigan	Projecting Future Wildfire Spread Potential in British Columbia, Canada
Spruyt, Jade	Larsen	Effects of Road Mortality and Mitigation Measures on the Western Rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus) in British Columbia
Turner, Brandon	Hill	Catching the Downpour: Estimating precipitation at high spatial resolution using low-cost sensing and weather RADAR
Walsh, Michelle	Heise	Identifying thermal refugia and their use by a species of conservation concern, Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in a drought prone stream
Zelmer, Adam	Mason	Vertical Challenges: Managing Climbing in Banff National Park