Thesis Defenses and Final Project Presentations
Defenses and presentations may be in person or online. If you wish to remotely attend an online defence via Zoom videoconferencing, please register using the attached Eventbright link. Guests are asked to enter an online defence with their mic and video turned off. If you are unfamiliar with using Zoom, it is recommended you practice prior to logging in to the defense. If you have problems with the link, email the Graduate Program Assistant at <rem_gradasst@sfu.ca>
Defences and presentations are listed in reverse order with the latest one at the top. All events are open to the public.
Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Heather Chambers (Supervisor Mark Jaccard)
Title: Fire-resilient rebuilds in rural British Columbia: A case study of Lytton
Date: Wednesday, October 18th, 2023
Time: 3:00 p.m. PDT
Location: HC 1600 SFU Vancouver
Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Carmen Gemmell (Supervisor Jonathan Moore)
Title: Interconnected effects of water temperature and habitat on relative abundance of juvenile salmonids during the summer months in coastal urban streams
Date: Tuesday, October 17th, 2023
Time: 10:00 a.m. PDT
Location: Library Thesis Defense Room, Bennett Library 2020
Please be ready outside the room at 3:00 p.m. The committee will admit you once they are ready to begin.
Please be ready outside the room at 10:00 a.m. The committee will admit you once they are ready to begin.
Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Sarah Gutzmann (Supervisor Anne Salomon)
Title: Centering Indigenous governance principles, values, and objectives to build a just blue economy decision space
Date: Friday, September 22nd, 2023
Time: 9:30 a.m. PST
Location: REM Seminar Room TASC1 8219
Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Anneliese Neweduk (Supervisor Pascal Haegeli)
Title: Characterizing an Increasingly Diverse and Growing Backcountry Community: A Holistic and Informative Approach Using Audience Segmentation.
Date: Thursday, 21 September 2023
Time: 9:00 a.m. PDT
Location: REM Seminar Room TASC1 8219
Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Elaine McAloney (Supervisor Tom Gunton)
Title: A Proposed Implementation Tracking Tool for the Metlakatla Cumulative Effects Management Program
Date: Monday, August 28th, 2022
Time: 10:00 a.m. PDT
Location: Online.
Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Emily Spencer (Supervisor Anne Salomon)
Title: Indigenous sea gardens buffer impacts of contemporary heat waves
Date: Thursday, August 24th, 2023
Time: 9:30 a.m. PST
Location: REM Seminar Room TASC1 8219
Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Sara Tremblay-Boyer (Supervisor Jonathan Moore)
Title: Rethinking quantitative fisheries: a case study of a values-driven approach on the K̓vaí (Koeye)- Hiìsṇ (Sockeye) Haíłzaqv (Heiltsuk) fishery
Date: Wednesday, August 23rd, 2023
Time: 11:00 a.m. PDT
Location: Library Thesis Defense Room, Bennett Library 2020
Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Mary Kelly (Supervisor Sean Markey)
Title: Indigenous Cultural Heritage Policies & Local Planning - A Case Study in the Land of Plenty
Date: Wednesday, August 23rd, 2023
Time: 10:00 am PDT
Location: Remote. Please sign up to receive the link to attend.
Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Brittany Milner (Supervisor Jonathan Moore)
Title: Seasonal dynamics of juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in wetlands of the North Thompson River, British Columbia.
Date: Friday, August 18th, 2023
Time: 10:00 a.m. PDT
Location: Library Thesis Defense Room, Bennett Library 2020
Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Renate Bluschke (Supervisor Mark Jaccard)
Title: Exploring economic opportunities in oil and gas endowed regions under net zero policy
Date: Wednesday, August 16th, 2023
Time: 2:00 p.m. PDT (note new time)
Location: REM Seminar Room TASC 1 8219
Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Rosemary Langford (Supervisor Pascal Haegeli)
Title: How Do Recreationists Manage Avalanche Risk in the Winter Backcountry? Insights from the Decision-Makers Themselves
Date: Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
Time: 2:00 p.m. PDT
Location: REM Seminar Room TASC1 8219
Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Deanna Cummings (Supervisor Cliff Atleo)
Title: Nuu-chah-nulth Health and Data Sovereignty in the Light of COVID-19.
Date: Thursday, August 3rd, 2023
Time: 10:00 a.m. PDT
Location: REM Seminar Room, TASC1 8219
Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Julia Brueggeman (Supervisor Frank Gobas)
Title: Application of Biomimetic Extraction to Measure Changes in Toxicity of Oil Sands Process-affected Water to Aquatic Organisms
Date: Thursday, 27 July, 2023
Time: 2:00 p.m. PDT
Location: REM Planning Room TASC2 7520
Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Shu Han (Sophia) Hsu (Supervisor Frank Gobas)
Title: Chemical Activity-based Risk Assessment of of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS)
Date: Thursday, 27 July, 2023
Time: 9:00 a.m. PDT
Location: REM Planning Room TASC2 7520
Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Kelsey Lee (Supervisor Frank Gobas)
Title: Identifying sources of polychlorinated biphenyls to the Southern Resident killer whales within the Salish Sea using passive sampling and chemical activity analysis
Date: Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
Time: 10:00 a.m. PDT
Location: REM Seminar Room TASC1 8219
Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Laura Beattie (Supervisor Andreanne Doyon)
Title: Resilience Planning in Canada: An Analysis of Resilience in Local Governments’ Strategic Planning Documents
Date: Monday, 17 July 2023
Time: 10:00 a.m. PDT
Location: REM Seminar Room, TASC1 8219
Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Kaitlin Thompson (Supervisor Mark Jaccard)
Title: Towards Net Zero Heating: An Analysis of Technology and Policy Pathways for Decarbonizing Building Heat in British Columbia
Date: Tuesday, June 20th, 2023
Time: 10:30 a.m. PDT
Location: SFU Vancouver, HC 1500 Xerox Conference Room
Doctor of Philosophy
Candidate: Neil Ladell (Supervisor Evelyn Pinkerton)
Title: Indigenous People’s Clam Fisheries Access, Management, and Governance in the Broughton Archipelago, British Columbia: Tradition, Adaptation, and the Potential for a Future
Date: Friday, June 16th, 2023
Time: 10:00 a.m. PDT
Location: Online
Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Tyla Crowe (Supervisor Cliff Atleo)
Title: Reconciliation, Resurgence, Indigenous-led Conservation and the Helicat Canada Toolkit
Date: Monday, April 24th, 2023
Time: 9:30 a.m. PDT
Location: REM Seminar Room, TASC1 8219
Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Martin Mateus (Supervisor Sean Markey)
Title: Municipal Reform in Rural Alberta: The Case of Coal Transitions
Date: Tuesday April 11th, 2023
Time: 10:00 am PDT
Location: REM Seminar Room. TASC1 8219
Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Elina Blomley (Supervisor Tammara Soma)
Title: Farm to School in B.C.: The Role of Food System Planning in Facilitating Local Food Procurement for Schools
Date: Wednesday April 5th, 2023
Time: 2:00 pm PDT
Location: Remote. Online only. Register with Eventbrite to receive the link.
Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Dina Sadeghi (Supervisor Tammara Soma)
Title: Lessons Learned during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Farm to School Programming as a Tool for Food System Resiliency
Date: Wednesday April 5th, 2023
Time: 9:00 am PDT
Location: Remote. Online only. Register with Eventbrite to receive the link.
Master of Resource Management (Planning)
Candidate: Hafsa Salihue (Supervisor Tammara Soma)
Title: "Scaling Up, Scaling Out, and Scaling Deep": Opportunities for Integrating Local Food into a Universal School Food Program in British Columbia, Canada
Date: Friday, March 31st, 2022
Time: 10:00 am PDT
Location: REM Seminar Room, TASC1 8219
Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Hannah Hunter (Supervisor Brett van Poorten)
Title: Prioritizing information needs in a well-studied recreational fishery: objectives over data
Date: Friday, March 24th, 2023
Time: 3:00 p.m. PDT
Location: REM Seminar Room TASC1 8219
Master of Resource Management
Candidate: Jacqueline Levy (Supervisor Anne Salomon)
Title: Diversity and Resilience of Sea Gardens Across the Pacific Ocean
Date: Thursday, March 16th, 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 13th, 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 12th, 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 22nd, 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 8th, 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 27th, 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 22th, 2022
Time: 11:00 a.m. PDT
Location: REM Seminar Room TASC1 8219