Defences are listed in reverse order with the latest one at the top. All defenses are open to the public.

Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Jacqueline Levy (Supervisor Anne Salomon)
Title: Diversity and Resilience of Sea Gardens Across the Pacific Ocean
Date: Thursday, March 16^th, 2022
Time: 2:30 p.m. PST
Location: REM Seminar Room TASC1 8219

Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Anwen Rees (Supervisor Andreanne Doyon)
Title: Unsettling NbS: A pathway towards shifting colonial power relations in nature-based solutions research and practice
Date: Monday, February 13^th, 2022
Time: 2:30 p.m. PST
Location: REM Seminar Room, TASC1 8219

Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Maya Guttman (Supervisor Anne Salomon)
Title: "I'd like to see it come back": The revitalization of Tsleil-Waututh Nation clam tending in Burrard Inlet
Date: Monday, December 12^th, 2022
Time: 9:30 a.m. PST
Location: REM Planning Room TASC2 7520

Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Nina Piggot (Supervisor Frank Gobas)
Title: Analysis of Oil Sand Process Water toxicity in Early LIfe Stage Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) using Biomimetic Extraction-Solid Phase Microextraction (BE_SPME)
Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2022
Time: 1:00 p.m. PST
Location: Online only

Doctor of Philosophy
Candidate: Steven Rossi (Supervisor Sean Cox)
Title: Evaluating ecosystem responses to grey seal abundance changes in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence
Date: Tuesday, November 22^nd, 2022
Time: Noon PST
Location: REM Seminar Room, TASC 1 8219

Doctor of Philosophy
Candidate: Ian Giesbrecht (Supervisor Ken Lertzman)
Title: Multi-scale Analyses of Watershed Ecosystems Across a Coastal Temperate Rainforest Region
Date: Tuesday, November 8^th, 2022
Time: 9:00 a.m. PDT
Location: W.A.C. Bennett Library Thesis Defense Room 2020

Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Madeleine MacLean (Supervisor Sean Markey)
Title: Planning in the Contact Zone: Indigenous Cultural Heritage Management in the Salish Sea
Date: Tuesday, September 27^th, 2022
Time: 10:00 a.m. PST
Location: REM Seminar Room, TASC1 8219

Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Mariah Mund (Supervisor Mark Jaccard)
Title: Assessing Uncertainties of our Climate-Friendly Road Freight Options
Date: Thursday, September 22^th, 2022
Time: 11:00 a.m. PDT
Location: REM Seminar Room TASC1 8219

Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Maggie Duncan (Supervisor Karen Kohfeld)
Title: Holocene fire and paleoclimate history of a small lake in the Lower Seymour Valley, British Columbia
Date: Friday, September 9, 2022
Time: 3:00 p.m. PDT
Location: REM Seminar Room, TASC1 8219

Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Emma Starke (Supervisor Mark Jaccard)
Title: A Process for Evaluation of Climate Policy Platforms and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets
Date: Wednesday, August 24^th, 2022
Time: 10:00 a.m. PDT
Location: Online

Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Chris Ray (Supervisor Tom Gunton)
Title: Assessing Challenges and Opportunities for Home Energy Improvements in Canadian Indigenous Communities: A Case Study of the Metlakatla First Nation
Date: Thursday, August 18^th, 2022
Time: 10:00 a.m. PDT
Location: Online

Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Maya Molander (Supervisor Cliff Atleo)
Title: Renewables and Reconciliation: Decolonizing climate policies for a just transition to a low-carbon future
Date: Tuesday, August 16^th , 2022
Time: 10:00 a.m. PDT
Location: REM Seminar Room, TASC1 8219  

Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Maureen Nadeau (Supervisor Andreanne Doyon)
Title: Exploring Ethical Space for land use planning in the Upper Columbia region of British Columbia.
Date: Monday, August 8^th, 2022
Time: 10:00 a.m. PDT
Location: Online

Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Nicolas Mead-Fox (Supervisor Zafar Adeel)
Title: Standardizing Green Infrastructure: Methods, Policies, and Change
Date: Friday, August 5^th, 2022
Time: 2:00 p.m. PDT
Location: REM Seminar Room, TASC1 8219

Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Colleen Dupont (Supervisor Duncan Knowler)
Title: Recreation and Protection Values of Port Renfrew Old-Growth Forests
Date: Friday, July 29^th, 2022
Time: 9:00 a.m. PDT
Location: REM Seminar Room TASC 1 8219

Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Bradley Elliott (Supervisor Mark Jaccard)
Title: Estimating the GHG Impact of City-Level Policies Across Canada
Date: Monday, June 27^th, 2022
Time: 11:00 a.m. PDT
Location: Online. Link provided after you register as a guest.

Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Dylan Cunningham (Supervisor Jonathan Moore)
Title: Forestry influences on instream salmon habitat and the implications for watershed management.
Date: Tuesday, June 21^st, 2022
Time: 1:00 p.m. PDT
Location: REM Seminar Room TASC 1 8419

Doctor of Philosophy
Candidate: Jesus Pulido Castanon (Supervisor Duncan Knowler)
Title: Conservation Agriculture: a farmer-focused analysis of adoption and diffusion determinants in Mexico
Date: Tuesday, June 14^th, 2022
Time: 9:00 a.m. PDT
Location: W.A.C. Bennett Library Thesis Defense Room 2020

Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Jacob Jones (Supervisor Karen Kohfeld)
Title: Ice Age changes: Antarctic sea ice and sea-surface temperature in the Southwest Pacific Ocean and their relationship to ocean circulation, marine productivity, and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations
Date: Wednesday, May 25^th, 2022
Time: 2:00 p.m. PDT
Location: REM Seminar Room, TASC1 8219

Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Olivia Gemmell (Supervisor Sean Cox)
Title: Presence-only species distribution modelling practices produce biased predictions for Alcyonacean corals on British Columbia’s continental shelf and slope
Date: Monday, May 16^th, 2022
Time: 11:30 a.m. PDT
Location: Online

Doctor of Resource Management
Candidate: Rodrigo Solis (Supervisor Sean Cox)
Title: Integrating Social and Ecological Dimensions for the Conservation of the Monarch Butterfly Using Systems Dynamics and Choice Modeling
Date: Thursday, May 12^th, 2022
Time: 9:30 a.m. PDT
Location: Online

Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Hasini Basnayake (Supervisor Karen Kohfeld)
Title: An Evidence-Based Approach to Understanding Blue Carbon Dynamics and Distribution on the Pacific Coast of Canada
Date: Wednesday, April 27^th , 2022
Time: 3:00 p.m. PDT
Location: In person only.

Master of Resource Management
Candidate: David Hodgson (Supervisor Mark Jaccard)
Title: The Economics of Air Capture of CO2 in Canada
Date: Friday, April 22^nd, 2022
Time: 10:00 am PDT
Location: SFU Vancouver, Harbour Centre 1500 Xerox Conference Room

Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Heather Hordowick (Supervisor Pascal Haegeli)
Title: Understanding Avalanche Problem Assessments: A Concept Mapping Study with Public Avalanche Forecasters
Date: Wednesday, April 20^th, 2022
Time: 9:00 a.m. PDT

Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Regina Li-Armijo (Supervisor Tom Gunton)
Title: Measuring economic prosperity in Indigenous communities: The Metlakatla Cumulative Effects Management Program
Date: Thursday, April 14^th, 2022
Time: 9:30 a.m. PDT

Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Julianne Barr (Supervisor Jonn Axsen)
Title: What drives fleets? Organizations' perceptions of barriers and motivators for alternative-fuel vehicle adoption in British Columbia, Canada
Date: Friday, April 8^th, 2022
Time: 10:00 am PDT
Location: Online using Zoom

Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Alexander Hook (Supervisor Tammara Soma)
Title: App-based Food Loss Quantification: Farmers’ Perspectives on the Role of Digital Agriculture in southwestern British Columbia
Date: Wednesday, April 6^th, 2022
Time: 10:30 am PDT
Location: Online using Zoom

Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Jamie-Lynne Varney (Supervisor Tammara Soma)
Title: Centering a Right to Food in the Vision for a Just and Resilient Circular Food Economy in Vancouver, B.C.: Theory of Change Application
Date: Friday, April 1^st, 2022
Time: 10:00 am PDT
Location: Online using Zoom

Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Nadia Springle (Supervisor Tammara Soma)
Title: Sustainable Management of Bioplastics: Lessons from a social innovation lab for Simon Fraser University and British Columbia
Date: Wednesday, March 30^th, 2022
Time: 9:30 am PDT
Location: Online using Zoom

Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Cleméntine Bouche (Supervisor Cliff Atleo)
Title: Developing Indigenous Health Indicators for Cumulative Effects Management
Date: Friday March 25^th, 2022
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Location: Online using Zoom

Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Reem Lari (Supervisor Andreanne Doyon)
Title: Seeds of Change: Strengthening Metlakatla Cultural Food and Material Practices
Date: Friday, March 25^th, 2022
Time: 9:00 am
Location: Online using Zoom

Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Sarah McBain (Supervisor Jonn Axsen)
Title: Function, Symbolism or Society? Exploring Canadian Consumer Interest in Electric and Shared Mobility.
Date: Tuesday, February 22^nd, 2022
Time: 9:30 a.m. PST
Location: online using Zoom