Catalogue of Previous MSc Theses MSc Environmental Science

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A - F

Aboagye (2015) - exogenous fibrolytic enzymes [supervisor Church]
Ahmadvand (2025) - information communication technology at hotels: exploring consumers economic and environmental values as sustainability pillars [supervisor Thomas-Francois]
Ajayi (2023) - invasive species on British Columbia's grasslands: estimating the benefits of control policies [supervisor Fraser]
Alnahdi (2014) – cave bacteria [supervisor Cheeptham]
Ani (2017) - earthquake damage cost analysis [supervisors Gu & Paetkau]
Andruscon (2021) - bisphenol in drinking water [supervisor Donkor]
Antonelli (2018) - native plant recovery on copper mine tailings [supervisor Fraser]
Atkinson (2026) - weather, climate, and small mammal population dynamics in a northern grassland [supervisors Larsen and Isaac]
Atherton (2025) - investigating the methane mitigation potential of locally abundant seaweeds in cattle feed supplements through chemical analyses [supervisor Prema, co-supervisor Church]
Atkins (2021) - western rattlesnake population in british columbia [supervisor Larsen]
Baethke (2015) - mine restoration of a native grassland [supervisor Fraser]
Bahroudi (2024) - influence of topsoil-till cover depth and amendments on ecosystem reclamation of a closed tailings storage facility [supervisor Fraser]
Baral (2021) - turbulance in landfill gas flow [supervisor Nec]
Baron (2017) - mapping invasive plants using RPAS and remote sensing [supervisor Hill]
Barsevskis (2022) - snow characteristics with blade hardness gauge [supervisor Paetkau]
Basaraba (2014) – turtle ecology [supervisor Larsen]
Bassett (2009) - carabid beetles [supervisor Fraser]
Bayliff (2022) - effects of mowing, irrigation, and fertilization [supervisor Fraser]
Belanger-Jumeau (2025) - recovery of southern mountain caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) habitat following wildfire in Ulkatcho territory, British Columbia, Canada [supervisor Harvey]
Bezooyen (2025) - trends in hourly weather and fire weather indices across biogeoclimatic zones in British Columbia under a changing climate [supervisor Flannigan]
Bogetti (2024) - at risk or dismissed? Making the case for designated species at risk legislation in British Columbia [supervisor Mason]
Boham (2023) - counter-intuitive nature of gas flow in anisotropic porous media [supervisor Huttunen-Hennelly]
Biddlecomb (2022) - the influence of prolonged sitting [supervisor Rakobowchuk]
Blair (2019) - population ecology of the american pika [supervisor Larsen]
Boule (2018) - sport hunting, conservaton, and ecosystem sustainabilty [supervisor Mason]
Boutaib (2022) - characterization of granular materials using a blade hardness gauge [supervisor Paetkau]
Boyda (2021) - RT-qPCR genetic studies of lodgepole pine dwarf mistletoe [supervisors Kwiatowska and Urban]
Bradley (2020) - reducing the cumulative effects of timber harvest and livestock grazing [supervisors Gardner & Fraser]
Brouwers (2025) - transforming landscapes: quantifying soil health, crop yield and carbon dynamics following forest and grassland conversion [supervisor Fraser]
Chapman (2020) - establishment of drip-irrigated poplar in semi-arid British Columbia [supervisor Pypker]
Chisholm (2023) - showshoe hare habitat use in the sub-boreal forests of north-central British Columbia [supervisors Larsen and Hood]
Chowdhury (2018) - human dimension of asian elephant conservation [supervisor Larsen]
Clark (2015) - effects of livestock grazing [supervisor Heise]
Coelho (2015) - climate change induced declines in ponds [supervisor Gardner]
Coghill (2021) - soil legacy effects of spotted knapweed [supervisor Fraser]
Corbeil (2026) - examination of incipient wildfire analyses in selected wildfire agencies [supervisor Flannigan]
Cox (2013) – global climate change & ranching [supervisor Fraser]
Denesiuk (2018) - grazing management [supervisor Fraser]
Doolaege (2023) - oral nutrient supplementation of neonatal calves to mitigate vitamin and mineral deficiencies [supervisor Church]
Doutaz (2019) - columbia river northern pike [supervisor Heise]
Drach (2023) - chemical exposure and menstrual regulation [supervisor Huttunen-Hennelly]
Dufort-Lefrancois (2015) - exploring capillary electrophoresis methods [supervisor Huttunen-Hennelly]
Dulc (2024) - roosting ecology of two bats (Myotis yumanensis and M. lucifugus): a comparison of maternity colonies in bat boxes and building roosts [supervisor Larsen and Lausen]
Duncan (2016) - western painted turtles [supervisor Larsen]
Dungey (2023) - restoration of semi-arid grasslands using priority effects and soil amendments [supervisor Fraser]
Dzumek (2021) - mine reclamation and nitrogen cycling [supervisor Fraser]
Egeland (2025) - towards improved bioreactor design for remote field scale hydrocarbon bioaugmentation [supervisor Cheeptham, co-supervisor Donkor]
Ernst (2014) – landscape connectivity [supervisor Klenner]
Evans (2017) - mound microsites [supervisor Gardner]
Eye (2022) - female western rattlesnakes [supervisor Larsen]
Farooq (2015) - analysis of bisphenol a (BPA) in environmental waters [supervisor Donkor]
Fischer (2023) - response of soil geochemical properties and microbial communities to long-term storage in mines [supervisor Fraser]
Florez Ariza (2025) - evaluating tthe socioeconomic and ecological value of sequestraation of the upper Clearwater valley forests in British Columbia [supervisor Mason]
Fogarty (2023) - factors driving the decline of fishers in central Interior British Columbia [supervisor Larsen]
Folkard (2012) – pine silvopastures [supervisor Fraser]
Fontaine (2021) - western bat species [supervisors Cheeptham & Lausen]
Foster (2019) - effects of the invasive plant spotted knapweed [supervisor Fraser]
France (2015) - behaviour of south thompson california bighorn sheep [supervisor Gardner]
Freitag (2024) - impacts of climate change and habitat loss of long-billed curlews [supervisor Reudink]

G - L

Garner (2012) – spadefoots at northern limit [supervisor Larsen]
Gervan (2023) - arthropod recovery in post-mine reclaimed sites [supervisor Fraser]
Gidora (2025) – investigation of eDNA air sampling as a tool for bat conservation and management [supervisor Fraser and Lausen]
Gilbert (2012) – salinity and disturbance on grass [supervisor Fraser]
Gillich (2023) - snow dynamics and soil moisture in commercially thinned lodgepole pine silvopastures [supervisor Fraser]
Girard (2024) - plant-based foods and sustainability: perceptions of farmers market consumers in Kamloops, British Columbia [supervisor Mehta]
Gordon (2022) - testing cattle grazing management as a restoration tool [supervisor Fraser]
Gunawardana (2018) - factors affecting movements of terrestrial isopods [supervisor Larsen]
Hales (2011) - small mammals and grasslands [supervisor Larsen]
Hales (2018) - habitat selection of the Great Basin Spadefoot (Spea intermontana) in the grasslands of British Columbia [supervisor Larsen]
Hamilton (2018) - intertidal invertebrate species [supervisor Gosselin]
Hansen (2011) - restoring abalone [supervisor Gosselin]
Harvey (2015) - summer habitat use by western rattlesnakes [supervisor Larsen]
Hazel (2018) - music festivals in british columbia [supervisor Mason]
Hodder (2016) - habitat selection and occupancy patterns of American mink [supervisor Larsen]
House (2021) - arctic grayling spawning behaviour [supervisor Heise]
Howarth (2023) - western rattlesnake migration and habitat [supervisor Larsen]
Huebel (2012) – heli-skiing and mountain caribou [supervisor Dickinson]
Iwabuchi (2019) - implications for intertidal invertebrate population [supervisor Gosselin]
Jeff-Zanni (2018) - environmental and economic growth trends [supervisor Tsigaris]
Jenewein (2013) – mortality of marine invertebrates [supervisor Gosselin]
Johnston (2018) - struggle for increased representation in jasper national park [supervisor Mason]
Joly (2024) - influence of neighbours on reproductive success of mountain bluebirds and tree swallows [supervisor Reudink]
Kega (2021) – forage productivity and soil carbon sequestration [supervisor Fraser]
King (2019) - outdoor pet cats in an urban environment [supervisor Tsigaris]
Klafki (2014) – road ecology of badgers [supervisor Larsen]
Kuang (2015) - effects of spotted knapweed [supervisor Fraser]
Lishman (2015) - rainfall redistribution [supervisor Carlyle-Moses]
Lloyd (2025) - what’s wildlife worth? assessing the recreational, educational and conservation value of the BC Wildlife Park [supervisor Tsigaris]
Lomas (2013) – effects of disturbance on rattlesnakes [supervisor Larsen]

M - R

Maciak (2011) – funding water system improvements [supervisor Tsigaris]
Maida (2018) - western rattlesnake spring movements [supervisors Larsen & Bishop]
Makar (2026) - stemflow and stemflow infiltration area for isolated ponderosa pine in a semi-arid setting [supervisors Carlyle-Moses and Pypker]
Manwaring (2023) - BC CANFIRE: examining effects of climate change and forest changes on fuel management treatments [supervisor Flannigan]
Marcisz (2021) - ranges and forays of bighorn sheep [supervisors Larsen & Hill]
Margetts (2022) - smallmouth bass in cultus lake [supervisor Heise]
Marini (2016) - city life and chickadees [supervisor Reudink]
Martin (2014) - regional frequency analysis [supervisor Carlyle-Moses]
Martin (2026) - determining the impact of two-weeks of dietary salt loading on resting and post-exercise vascular endothelial health [supervisor Rakobowchuk]
Maslowski (2024) - impacts of wildfires on high-elevation forests in Glacier National Park [supervisor Harvey]
Massey (2021) - adams river salmon run in tsutswecw provincial park [supervisor Mason]
McAdie (2018) - population health in the vancouver island marmot [supervisors Larsen and Stephen]
McArthur (2016) - cavity nesting songbirds [supervisor Reudink]
McCulloch (2013) – precipitation and clipping effects on grasslands [supervisor Fraser]
McKee (2010) – lodgepole pine stemflow [supervisor Carlyle-Moses]
McKelvey (2024) - natural and artificial hibernacula use by three sympatric snake species [supervisor Larsen]
McLennan (2025) - biological communities in reclaimed post-mining landscapes of British Columbia: from monitoring to management [supervisor Van Hamme]
Mendt (2021) - the role of energy reserves on mortality [supervisor Gosselin]
Miller (2025) - tracking the long-distance migration and abundance of phalaropes (phalaropus spp.) at saline lake across the western hemisphere [supervisor Reudink]
Milne (2018) - interactions between indolicidin and its analogs with lopopolysaccharide [supervisor Huttunen-Hennelly]
Moote (2013) – supplementing cattle rations [supervisors Van Hamme and Church]
Morton (2024) -the narcissist of land use management: mountain biking and the challenges of sustainable development in rural and indigenous communities [supervisor Mason]
Mufford (2020) - use of unmanned aerial vehicles to study cattle heat stress [supervisor Church]
Neumann (2019) - sustainable management of backcountry trail networks [supervisor Mason]
O'Connell (2020) - biochemical factors governing the enzymatic desulfonation [supervisor Van Hamme]
Oluwayomi (2024) - leveraging liver cancer algorithm and spiral updates for feature selection [supervisor Tawhid]
Pageau (2020) – evolution of moulting strategies and altitudinal migration of passerines [supervisor Reudink]
Patino Garces (2025) - ecosystem principles for British Columbia protected areas: strategic planning and decision-making in Wells Gray Provincial Park [supervisor Mason]
Paulson (2020) – effects on growth of native and non-native species in temperate grasslands [supervisor Fraser]
Petersen (2010) – buffer strips and bryophyte diversity [supervisor Baldwin]
Peterson (2022) - the effect of smoke-water on seed germination of 18 native forb species from the interior grasslands of southern British Columbia [supervisor Fraser]
Phillips (2017) - copper molybdenum mine tailings [supervisors Gardner and Pypker]
Pillar (2014) – moult-migration and productivity in orioles [supervisor Reudink]
Pouw (2019) - structure and representation of ecological data [supervisor Kwiatkowska]
Prudhomme (2023) - assessing methods of suppressing invasive smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) and characterizing smallmouth bass diet overlap with walleye (Sander vitreus) in Clear Lake, Manitoba [supervisor Heise]
Prytula (2022) - tracking changes in migration for vaux's swifts and chimney swifts using community science [supervisor Reudink]
Ragsdale (2025) - movement patterns of free-ranging and translocated snakes (Pituophis catenifer deserticola and Coluber constrictor mormon) in southwestern Canada [supervisor Larsen, Co-supervisor Isaac]
Rahman (2016) - lives of poor migrants to dhaka city [supervisors Dickinson and Church]
Raymond (2013) – carbon footprint of cattle grazing [supervisor Church]
Richardson (2015) - comparison of random forests [supervisor Fraser]
Robinson (2026) - forest encroachment drivers, dynamics, and wildfire resiliency of forest-grassland ecotones in interior British Columbia [supervisor Harvey]
Roberge (2023) - forage quality and moose (Alces alces) nutrition in a logged landscape [supervisor Larsen]
Ross, M (2016) - distribution of plant functional groups [supervisor Baldwin]
Ross, P (2019) - examining local food procurement [supervisor Mason]

S - Z

Sahebi (2024) - Multi-scale spatial image analysis for mapping spotted knapweed in grassland ecosystems” [supervisor Hill]
Sajid (2023) - transformative drivers of environmental sustainability in contemporary organization [supervisor Tsigaris]
Sapozhnikova (2012) – carbon sequestration in grasslands [supervisor Fraser]
Schmidt (2014) – herbaceous plant communities in grasslands [supervisor Fraser]
Schoen (2025) - short-term impacts of the Site C Dam on the threatened bank swallow (Riparia riparia) [supervisors Reudink and Imlay]
Schooling (2014) - stemflow production from isolated deciduous trees [supervisor Carlyle-Moses]
Sepehri (2023) - controlling surface flux in landfill-well coupled flow in perforated horizontal wells [supervisor Nec]
Sharafi (2024) - a hybrid swarm intelligence algorithm and machine learning approach based on feature selection to predict global temperature [supervisor Tawhid]
Simmonds (2012) - environmental practices used in commercial sea kayaking [supervisor Hood]
Smith (2012) - drivers of wetland zooplankton community structure [supervisor Heise]
Smith (2023) - community and social justice approaches to food security in Kamloops, BC [supervisor Mason]
Spruyt (2024) - road mortality mitigation in snakes [supervisor Larsen]
Swan (2019) - assessing private land fuel management treatments [supervisor Gardner]
Symes (2013) – winter ecology of badgers [supervisor Larsen]
Taiwo (2020) - application of capillary electrophoresis [supervisor Donkor]
Tattersfield (2013) – feeding ecology and movement of perch [supervisor Heise]
Taylor (2009) – willingness to pay for recycling [supervisor Tsigaris]
Terpsma (2018) - variability in soil available water [supervisor Pypker]
Tran (2018) - analytical characterization of choline chloride [supervisor Donkor]
Turner (2024) - prealternate moult in nonbreeding period carry-over effects in neotropical migratory songbirds [supervisor Reudink]
Valle Pinuela (2025) - the application of geographic information systems (GIS) technologies to monitor and support sustainable tourism in the Thompson-Okanagan region [supervisor Thomas-Francois]
Vandermale (2023) - sustainable land-based food systems and Indigenous-led conservation in the Dehcho region, NWT [supervisor Mason]
Volpatti (2013) – grazing response index of forage species [supervisor Gardner]
Wester (2024) - developing climate resilient beef cattle with superior meat quality [supervisor Church]
Whitehouse, R (2021) - ecologically based weed management [supervisor Fraser]
Whitehouse, S (2019) - biosolids in bc's southern interior [supervisor Fraser]
Williams (2022) - utilizing indigenous prescribed burning methods [supervisor Fraser]
Winton (2018) - road mortality on the western rattlesnake [supervisors Larsen & Bishop]
Wong (2025) - direct and indirect effects of roads on a community of threatened snake species [supervisor Larsen]
Xiao (2024) - biosolids to restore native plant communities [supervisor Fraser]
Zelmer (2025) - vertical challenges: building sustainable rock climbing in Banff National Park [supervisor Mason]