Eco-Dynamic Disturbance and Vulnerability Group
 

Dr. Zhouxin Xi, Post-doctoral fellow now research scientist at Canadian Forest Service

Dr. Edberto Moura-Lima (Emerging Leaders of the America’s Program, Brazil): Examined impacts of oil sands disturbance on wetlands

Jesse Aspinall, MSc: “Quantifying change in carbon pools due to and following the Kenow wildland fire”

Ashlee Mombourquette, MSc (supervised by Dr. Jan Ciborowski, UCalgary): : “Effects of age and salinity on plant community composition and productivity in newly formed wetlands in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta”

Humaira Enayetullah, MSc: "“Assessing the cumulative impact of wildfires and seismic line disturbance on peatlands in Northern Alberta”

Emily Jones, MSc “Implications of diminishing wildfire return intervals on structural changes and rates of change in regenerating vegetation within boreal peatlands”

Jeanne Franco, MSc internship student "Examined fuel connectivity in Jasper National Park using drone data"

Thais Abib (Emerging Leaders of the America’s Program, Brazil): Examined proximal influence of seismic lines on wetlands and upland forests

Marcus Merlonghi, BSc honours thesis: “Quantifying fire fuels and biomass in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta Canada”

Sam Gerrand, BSc honours thesis: " “Determining the impact of anthropogenic disturbance on fire fuel availability in the Oil Sands Region, Alberta Canada”

Natalie Krizan NSERC USRA: “Quantifying post-fire long and short-term carbon balances in discontinuous permafrost”

Apryl Nish NSERC USRA: “Quantifying the early years of ecosystem regeneration in a post-fire montane valley”

Tristan Skretting NSERC USRA: “Quantifying deviation from fire fuel classes across Canada”

Sam Gerrand NSERC USRA: “Quantifying depth of burn and loss of carbon during wildfire associated with environmental drivers”

Rachelle Shearing NSERC USRA: “Comparing measured and remotely sensed methods for determining leaf area index”

Independent study students

• Lapres, M. 2023 Applied study: Postfire rates of seedling regeneration

• Lapres, M. 2023 “Carbon/Biomass Loss Resulting from Harvesting and Prescribed Fire, and Related Fire Intensity”

• Wandler, B., 2023 “Exploring variability in post-fire peatland ecology”

• Skretting, T., 2022 “Lidar remote sensing for fire”

• Charchuk, A., 2022 “Impacts of disturbance on peatlands and peatland regeneration/reclamation using remote sensing”

• Swail, J. 2021 “Methods and measurements for determining biomass in montane ecosystems”

• Jones, M. 2021 “Interactions between climate and water runoff in mountain environments”

• Lartiga, V. 2020 “Review of literature and the use of remote sensing for studying fire”

• Cuthbertson, N. 2020 “Review of literature and the use of remote sensing for studying wetlands”

• Enayetullah, H. 2020 “Review of literature and the use of remote sensing for studying wetlands”

• Woodall, C. 2020 “Fire fuel assessment from field data”

• Nelson, K. 2020 “Data analysis in R”

• Ottah, C. 2020 “Remote sensing of wildland fire”

• Martin, J., 2020 “Remote sensing change detection of discontinuous permafrost land covers”

• Brunet, J. 2020 “Wetland identification and classification for British Columbia”

• Muirhead, J. 2020 “Fire fuel assessment using lidar data”

• Merlonghi, M. 2020 “Assessing climate patterns in northern environments”

• Gerrand, S. 2019 “Quantifying carbon loss from depth of peat burn following the Kenow Wildfire, Waterton Lakes National Park”

• Graham, E. 2019 “Physical and vegetative health of riparian zones in relation to surrounding land-uses”

• Martin, J. 2019 “Landsat, Sentinel and Lidar: Comparing three remote sensing techniques using normalized burn ratios”

• Shearing, R. 2019 “Quantifying LAI using multiple methods within the Oil Sands Region, Alberta Canada”

• Mombourquette, A. 2019 “Vegetation Plotting, Water and Toxicity Sampling and Soil Classification at Suncor Base Plant”

• Smuk, S.S. 2019 “Wetlands in Northern Alberta: Comparative study of total wetlands area and classes between two years”

• Sanders, A. 2018 “Developing a remote sensing classification based on spatial distribution of bison movement in Banff National Park”

• Mombourquette, A. 2018 “Climate influences on bog evolution in the Oil Sands Region, Alberta”

• Adebayo, H. 2018 “Economic and social impacts of wildfire in western Canada”

• Jones, E. 2018 “Lidar remote sensing data processing and analysis for ecosystem change monitoring”

• Jakober, L. 2017 “Advanced Remote Sensing of Species using Drones and Lidar”

• George, M. 2017 “Impacts of Wildfire on Wetlands”

• Wilson, C. 2017 “Best Management Practices of Aquatic Invasive Species”

• Ostendorf, T. 2017 “Climate Trends and Area Frequency of Wildfires in Alberta”

• Olson, C. 2017 “Changes due to Changing Climate in Northern Ecosystems”

• Paluck, A. 2016 “Modelling impacts of vegetation structure and land surface morphology on permafrost thaw in the NWT”

• Piet, K. 2015 “Biomass Accounting on Campus”

• Allred, J. 2014 “Meteorological instrumentation and Application”

• Lamb, S. 2014 “Classification of Wetlands in Alberta using Remote Sensing Methods”

• Kutanzi, E. 2014 “Climate patterns over western Canada: Integration with Remote Sensing and GIS Data”

• Dillon, P. 2014 “Peatland Biodiversity Assessment using Remote Sensing and in situ Methods”

• Paluck, A. 2014 “Remote Sensing for Environmental Change Detection”