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.
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
This defense is online. Please use this Eventbrite link to get access to the defense. Please enter the defense with your microphone and video turned off to preserve band width. Latecomers may not be admitted at the discretion of the Chair.
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
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 24th, 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 18th, 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 16th , 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 8th, 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 5th, 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 29th, 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 27th, 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 21st, 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 14th, 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 25th, 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 16th, 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 12th, 2022
Time: 9:30 a.m. PDT
Location: Online