Graduate Students
Current Graduate Students
These graduate students are working toward various graduate degrees& are
supervised by faculty members in the Geography Program.
Watch for graduate student updates on the What's New page .
* NRES = Natural Resources and Environmental Studies
* IDIS = Interdisciplinary Studies
* INTS = International Studies
Sam Albers, MSc (Biology) student
BSc (Biology) University of Victoria
Supervisor: Dr. Ellen Petticrew
Topic: Salmon-nutrient and biofilm interaction in gravelbed streams
Matt Beedle, PhD NRES
(Geog) candidate
BSc (Earth Science) Montana State University; MA (Geography) University of Colorado
Co-Supervisors: Drs. Brian Menounos & Roger
Wheate
Topic: Glacier change and relations to climate variability in northern British Columbia
Claudette Bois, PhD NRES
candidate , September 2008 - present
BSc, Botanical Sciences, McGill (2000)
MSc, Renewable Resources, McGill (2004)
Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Nolin
Topic: Resource extraction impacts on indigenous-land spiritual values in rural
Guatemala and northern BC
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HERE for more details
Kathy Carlson, MA NRES (Geog) candidate , May 2008 - present
BA Anthropology '07, UNBC
Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Nolin
Topic: Central American migration
On Leave 2009-2010
Christine Creyke , MA NRES (Geog) candidate, September 2007 - present
A Geography '06, UNBC
Co-supervisors: Drs. Gail Fondahl & Greg Halseth
Topic: The Tahltan First Nation and their relationship with mining industry
e-mail:
creykec@unbc.ca
Nathan Einbinder, MA NRES (Geog) candidate , September 2007 - present
BSc Environmental Studies '02 Evergreen State College
Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Nolin
Topic: Dams, displacement, and perceptions of development: A case study from Rio Negro, Guatemala
Click
HERE for more details and links to Nate's published news articles
Brooke Eschuk, MA NRES (Geog) candidate , January 2008 - present
BA Geography '07
Supervisor: Dr. Neil Hanlon
Topic: Access to organised sports, public green space for unstructured play, & family income in Prince George, BC
Email:
Click
HERE for more details
Neil Gauthreau, MA IDIS candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Gail Fondahl
Topic: Engaging with Change: Past and Present (A Study of Transition in the Sizyabsk village, Komi Republic, Russian Federation)
Kelly Giesbrecht, PhD NRES (Geog) student , September 2009 - present
BA Political Science, UNBC; MA NRES (Geography) '03, UNBC
Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Nolin
Topic:
Resisting Neoliberalism: Activism and Energy
Development in the Skeena Watershed, Northwest BC
Melanie Grubb, MSc NRES
candidate , September 2006 - present
BSc Geography '06, UNBC
Supervisor: Dr. Brian Menounos
Topic: Saptial and Temporal Patterns of Sedimentation in Proglacial Kitsumkalum Lake, Terrace, BC
Jocelyn Joe-Strack, MSc NRES student,
May 2009 - present
BSc
(Biochemistry) '06, University of Victoria
Supervisor: Dr. Ellen Petticrew
Topic:
Use of
LH-PCR as a DNA fingerprint technique to monitor sediment-associated microbial
communities from various land uses
Phillip Krauskopf, MSc NRES student
BSc Geography '06 UNBC
Supervisor: Dr. Ellen Petticrew
Topic:
Landscape scale analysis of riparian zone sensitivity to
forest harvest disturbance
JP Laplante, MA NRES (Geog) student , September 2009 - present
BSc Biological Sciences, University of Guelph
Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Nolin
Topic: TBA
Courtney (Wood) LeBourdais , MA NRES (Geog) candidate , September 2008 - present
BA English '08 (Psych & Human Geog double minor), UNBC
Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Nolin
Topic: Marriage Migration in Northern BC: How do foreign brides establish place & identity
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HERE for more details
Joe LeBourdais, MA NRES (Geog) candidate , September 2007 - present
BA Geography '07 (First Nations Studies minor), UNBC
Supervisor: Dr. Neil Hanlon
Topic: Community development & implications on access to health care and health service, Peace River Regional District, BC
Click
HERE for Joe's summer 2009 fieldwork update
Alex Martin, PhD NRES (Geog) candidate
BA (Geography), M.A. (Rural Dev.) Brandon University
Supervisor: Dr. Greg
Halseth
Topic: Community-company relationships in forest-dependent communities
Malyssa Maurer, MSc NRES (Geog) student, January 2010 - present
BSc Geography '09, UNBC
Supervisor: Dr. Brian Menounos
Topic: Terrestrial and Lacustrine Evidence of Holocene Glacier Fluctuations in Southernmost Patagonia
Lorraine Naziel , MA IDIS candidate , September 2008 - present
BA Geography '08, (First Nations Studies & Political Science minors), UNBC
Diploma in Public Sector Managenment, UVic
Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Nolin
Topic: Witsuwit’en Women: Empowering the Heart, Mind, Body and Spirit through Community Development
Jamie Pepper , MNRES (Geog) candidate , September 2008 - present
Supervisor: Dr. Gail Fondahl
Topic:
A First Nation Approach to Marine Near-shore Natural
Resource Management on Coastal British Columbia
Email: pepperc@unbc.ca
Kara Przeczek, MSc NRES (Geog)
candidate, 2006 - present
BSc Ecology '05 (hons.), Earth Sciences (minor),
University of Calgary
Co-Supervisors: Drs. Brian Menounos & Stephen Dery
Topic: Snowmelt & snowmelt modeling
Cristian Silva, MA IDIS
candidate (at right, in photo), September 2007 - present
BA Anthropology '07, UNBC
Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Nolin
Topic: Exhuming Guatemala's gendered violence
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HERE for more details
Marc Steynen, MA NRES (Geog) candidate
BSc Forestry, UNBC
Supervisor: Dr. Greg Halseth
Topic: The consequences of forest-dependence for community development in
Northern BC.
Christina Tennant, MSc NRES (Geog) candidate , September 2007 - present
Supervisor: Dr. Brian Menounos
Topic: Volumetric
change of glaciers of the Columbia Icefield using oblique photographs
Chris Turner, MA NRES (Geog) student, September 2009 - present
GIS Tech., BCIT ('97), Applied
anthro., school of hard knocks ('98-'04), BGen.Studies, Thompson Rivers University ('09)
Supervisor: Dr. Gail Fondahl
Topic: Competing aboriginal claims to
membership and territory in comprehensive land claim negotiation in Canada
Lynn Wilson, MA INTS - on leave for 2007-2009
Co-Supervisors: Drs. Catherine Nolin & Fiona
MacPhail
Topic: Grassroots organizations and the empowerment of indigenous women in post-conflict
Guatemala
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HERE for more details
Chelan (Hoffman) Zirul, MA NRES (Geog)
candidate
BA Geography '06, UNBC
Supervisor: Dr. Greg Halseth
Topic: The Changing Governance of Rural Regional Development: A case study of the
Cariboo-Chilcotin Beetle Action Coalition
Former Graduate Students & Theses
2009
MA NRES (Geography) '09
Supervisor: Dr. Greg Halseth
Co-Supervisors: Drs. Gail Fondahl & Chris Johnson
Thesis: "The Distribution of Woodland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou ) and Moose
(Alces alces ) in the Fort St.
James Region of Northern British Columbia,
1800-1950”
PhD NRES (Geography) '09
Supervisor: Dr. Ellen Petticrew
MNRES (Geography) '09
MA NRES (Geography) '09
Supervisor: Dr. Greg Halseth
MA NRES (Geography) '09
Supervisor: Dr. Greg Halseth
2007
Rachael Clasby
MA NRES (Geography) '07
Supervisor: Dr. Neil Hanlon
Karen Heikkila, MA NRES (Geography) '07
Supervisor: Dr. Gail Fondahl
Sarah (Parsons) Quinn, MA NRES (Geography) '07
Supervisor: Dr. Gail Fondahl
Jessica (McGregor) Place
MA NRES (Geography)
'07
Supervisor: Dr. Neil Hanlon
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2006
Arian Spiteri, MNRES '06
Co-supervisors: Drs. Gail Fondahl & Sanjay Nepal (Texas A&M University)
2005
Melissa Baxter , MA NRES (Geography) '05
Supervisor: Dr. Gail Fondahl
Roberta (Bobbi Jo) Lay , MNRES '05
Supervisor: Dr. Roger Wheate
Jennifer Reade
MA Interdisciplinary Studies '05
Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Nolin
Jacqui Stephens
MA Interdisciplinary Studies, UNBC '05
Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Nolin
2004
Jenny Lo , MSc NRES (Geography) '04
Supervisor: Dr. Greg Halseth
2003
Kelly Giesbrecht , MA NRES (Geography) '03
Supervisor: Dr. Greg Halseth
2002
Laura Ryser , MNRES (Geography) '02
Supervisor: Dr. Greg Halseth
Lana Sullivan , MA NRES (Geography) ' 02
Supervisor: Dr. Greg Halseth
2001
Brian Stauffer , MA NRES (Geography) ' 01
Supervisor: Dr. Greg Halseth
1999
Philip Morris , MA NRES (Geography) '99
Supervisor: Dr. Gail Fondahl
Incoming Grad Students 2005
(L-R):
Don Morgan, Pam Tobin, Domenico Santomauro, Lynn Wilson
& Jessica Place