Current student research
Below you will find a sample of research profiles for some of our current NRES graduate students.
Sorour Nasimi (PhD candidate, NRES)
Supervisor: Dr. Jianbing Li
Dissertation topic: Enhancing water security in rural and remote areas incorporating traditional knowledge
Additional degree
- Master of Environmental Engineering (University of Tehran, Iran)
Yihang Zhang (MA, NRES)
Supervisor: Dr. Zoë Meletis
Thesis topic: Bringing dinosaurs into the 2020s: considering current visitation and future virtual tourism possibilities for the Tumbler Ridge Museum and Geopark (B.C.)
Benjamin Hagerty (MA, NRES - Geography)
Supervisors: Dr. Zoë Meletis and Dr. Mark Groulx
Thesis topic: Examining vegan philosophy in sustainable tourism and entrepreneurialism
Additional degree
- BA, International Relations and Global Studies, French Studies (University of the Pacific - Stockton, California, 2010)
Amy Abdel-Malak
Supervisor: Dr. Zoë Meletis
Thesis topic: Keystone species, tourism, and conservation in British Columbia (tentative)
Additional degree
- HBSc, Geography (Lakehead University, 2020)
Richard Darko (MA, NRES - Geography)
Supervisor: Dr. Greg Halseth
Thesis topic: Economic restructuring in resource-dependent communities in the aftermath of mill/mine closure in northern British Columbia
Additional degrees
- BA, Economics (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology - Kumasi, Ghana, 2012)
- MA, Development Economics (University of Northern B.C., 2019)
- BA Honours, Archaeology (Archaeology Field School, SFU)