The Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Graduate Program and the Natural Resource and Environmental Studies Institute are holding a virtual Graduate Student Poster Presentation in lieu of our Friday colloquium presentation.

This event will highlight the current research being undertaken by NRES 700 Graduate Students.

Join us on Zoom to discuss with students their research projects; Students will be assigned to Breakout rooms with attendees able to move between the rooms at their leisure.

Group 1

• Amy Abdel-Malak: Whale Watching, COVID-19 and Sustainable Tourism
• Tolulupe Alayande: Performance of Cross-laminated Wood High Rise Buildings
• Tom Balfour: Early Survival of Hatchery-Origin Chinook Salmon
• Emily Bornestig: Impact of Microplastics on Tree Swallow Nestlings
• Scott Brown: Local Food Systems & Community Resilience
• Stephanie Chan: Greenland Cod and Climate Change in the Arctic
• Jhoan P. Chávez Suazo: Pyrolysis of Municipal Solid Waste, Concepción District, Peru
• Richard Darko: Economic Restructuring in Valemont & Tumbler Ridge
• Emily de Freitas: Seasonal Changes in Roosting Ecology of Silver-haired Bat
• Avery Dextrase: Thermoregulation & Reproductive Success in Sockeye Salmon
• Benjamin Hagerty: Local Capture of Tourism Revenue in Vancouver
• Rafid Shams Huq: Seismic Performance of Tall Timber-Steel Hybrid Braced Frames
• Carl-Evan Jefferies: Influence of Landscape Characteristics on Moose
• Aven Knutson: Indigenous Self-determination in a Climate Planning Partnership
• Narayan Koirala: Treatment for Oily Wastewater in a Marine Oil Spill Response
• Justin Kokoszka: Impacts of Streamflow Regulation in the Nechako River Basin

Group 2

• Gabrielle Lint: Effect of Mount Polley Tailings on Downstream Phosphorus Levels
• Adam Macdonald: Climate Change Impacts on Nechako River Water Temperatures
• Emily Mason: Water Temperature and Survival of Sockeye Salmon in Fraser R.
• Andrew McDermot-Fouts: Williston River Fish Ecology Assessed Using Environmental DNA
• Matt McLean: Machine Learning Based Classification of Cut-block Vegetation
• Erin Nevison: Barriers to Electrification of Transportation in BC
• Kevin Ostapowich: Alpine Ground Heat variations in the Columbia Mountains
• Annie Pumphrey: Wildlife Viewing in Kananaskis Country - ‘Bear Jams’
• Sydney Raison: Barriers to Waste Diversion in Prince George, BC
• Tory Rhoads: Investigating Novel Approaches for Locating Bat Hibernacula
• Ali Sadeghi: Application of Pyrolysis to Treat Marine Oil Spill Wastes
• Milvio Sanchez: Tolerance of Cross-Laminated Timber Subjected to Lateral Loads
• Sinha Sultana: Behavior of Scoured Isolated Bridges Subjected to Earthquakes
• Whitney Swyers: Radial Growth Response of Douglas-fir to Spruce Budworm
• Stephanie Wilford: Recovery of Cultural Plants after the Shovel Lake Wildfire, BC
• Peter Zhao: Testing the Sound Insulation of Mass Timber Floors