Graduate Students

We believe that the breadth and policy relevance of the graduate training being conducted as part of our CREATE program is remarkable and noteworthy. To illustrate the topical diversity and geographic reach of our program, we provide a word frequency presentation of key words from our trainees thesis and internship project titles (Figure 1),听a map of where our collaborators and internship host organizations are and where research and training activities have taken place in the last two years (Figure 2), and a list of all our graduate students and their thesis title.

Figure 1. Word frequency of trainees' thesis and internship project titles.

Figure 2. Geographic locations of collaborators,听internship host organizations, and field research activities. Pie charts are听sized by the number of organizations (ranging from 1 to 13)听and show the proportion of academia (white), governmental organizations (black), private sector organizations (dark grey), and aboriginal organizations (light grey).听

2018
Nathan Badry MSc, McGill, Gordon Hickey ''Past, present, and future socio-ecology of northern Quebec鈥檚 wild food system in an era of environmental change''
Hekia Bodwitch PDF, McGill, Gordon Hickey ''The changing wild food value chain in the context of wildlife, health, and environmental policy''
Tian Qi Che MSc, McGill, Gordon Hickey ''Sustainable impact monitoring and resource management in northern Quebec''
Allison Ford MSc, McGill, Murray Humphries ''Culturally significant plants in northern Quebec, their climate sensitivity, and their varied contributions to well-being''
Christine Ha MSc, McGill, Treena Delormier ''Climate change impacts, adaptations, and vulnerabilities of northern Quebec鈥檚 wild food system''
Baily McCulloch MSc, UofA, Stan Boutin ''Remote monitoring of the effect of wolf management on woodland caribou recovery in Alberta''
Mikhaela Neelin MSc, McGill, Murray Humphries ''The expansion of beaver populations in Nunavik and their impacts on Arctic Char''
Shotaro Shiratsuru MSc, UofA, Stan Boutin "Trade-off between foraging and predator avoidance in home range sizes and habitat use patterns of snowshoe hares"
Rose Seguin MSc, McGill, Treena Delormier ''Improving agricultural initiatives in northern and remote settings through region-specific agricultural best management practices''
Laurence Carter MSc, McGill, Murray Humphries ''Muskox resource selection and interactions with caribou in Yukon听North Slope''
2017
Nadele Flynn PhD, UofA,听Andreas Hamann ''Relationship between plant community processes, climate and abiotic factors from the local-site to bioclimatic region in the Yukon portion of the North American Boreal Forest''	听
Justine Hudson MSc, UofManitoba, Marianne Marcoux ''The development of non-invasive tools to study the long-term health of Western Hudson Bay belugas''
Rebecca McCabe PhD, McGill, Kyle Elliott ''Movement ecology of snowy owls: habitat selection and dispersal across Canadian Arctic seascapes and landscapes''
Ana Morales MSc, McGill, Kyle Elliott ''Migration and stopover strategies in two moult-migrant passerines at the southern edge of the boreal forest: An automated telemetry and weather radar study''
Phil Walker MSc, UofA, Evelyn Merrill ''Impacts of forestry on the nutritional resources and selection听of Woodland Caribou in Northwestern Ontario''
Shannon Whelan PhD, McGill, Kyle Elliott ''Effects of warming waters and changing sea-ice conditions on foraging of northern seabirds''
脡mile Brisson-Curadeau MSc, McGill, Kyle Elliott ''Using biologging to monitor Arctic seabird diet''
Jeremy Brammer PDF, McGill, Murray Humphries ''Documenting and examining locally-identified declines in muskrat populations of Canada鈥檚 northwestern Arctic''
Am茅lie Fontaine PhD, McGill, Kyle Elliott and Anouk Simard ''Bat demography and conservation through the monitoring of maternity colonies''
Sean Konkolics MSc, UofA, Stan Boutin ''Influence of forest fires and burned landscapes on the spatial distribution of woodland caribou in the resource extraction region of northeastern Alberta''
2016
Laura Garland MSc, UofA, Stan Boutin and Erin Bayne ''Using remote cameras and autonomous recording units to monitor impacts of human footprint on large mammal biodiversity in Alberta, Canada''
Conor Mallory MSc, UofA, Mark Boyce ''Qamanirjuaq caribou movement and habitat use''
Benjamin Barst PDF, McGill, Nil Basu ''Effects of mercury on landlocked Arctic char from the Canadian High Arctic''
Jillian Cameron MSc, UofA, Erin Bayne ''Development of bioacoustic monitoring protocols for amphibian populations in prairie Canada using autonomous recording units''
Alistair Chan PhD, McGill, Jim Fyles ''Socio-ecological conditions that cause human migration and the implications for Canadian resource development''
Samantha Darling PhD, McGill, Gordon Hickey and Aynslie Ogden ''The role of capacity building in Canada's northern research policy''
Ashley Hanas MSc, McGill, Jessica Head ''Hazard assessment for legacy and emerging environmental contaminants in birds''
Allison Patterson PhD, McGill, Kyle Elliott ''Marine spatial planning in the Arctic with a case study of shipping from Baffinlands mine: the non-breeding season''
Ashlee-Ann Pigford PhD, McGill, Gordon Hickey ''Engaging an innovations ecosystems approach to enhance the translation and integration of northern scientific research''
Duncan Warltier PhD, McGill, Murray Humphries ''Analysing development compensation: how compensation agreements act to preserve Indigenous food security and traditional cultural practices''
Darcy Doran-Myers MSc, UofA, Stan Boutin ''Canada lynx abundance in Kluane Lake Valley, Yukon听through a population peak and听decline'' 听
Ellorie McKnight PhD, UofA, David Hik ''Seasonal dynamics of large Yukon lakes: characterizing physical, chemical, and biological water conditions and the development of a long term monitoring program''
2015
Thomas Lazarus PhD, McGill, Kyle Elliott ''Marine spatial planning in the Arctic with a case study of shipping from Baffinlands mine during the seabird breeding season''
Jaaved Singh MSc, McGill, Jeff Cardille ''Connectivity in the Albertan foothills: Modelling Grizzly Bear movements with circuit theory''
Jo毛l Poti茅 MSc, McGill, Murray Humphries ''Sharp-tailed grouse breeding ecology in a Yukon resource development area''
Nasrin Golzadeh PhD, McGill, Nil Basu ''An Ecohealth approach to petroleum development within First Nation communities''
Emily Upham-Mills MSc, UofA, Erin Bayne ''The use of migratory bird spring arrival timing to inform habitat preference''
Michelle Knaggs MSc, UofA, Erin Bayne ''Effects of forest fire severity on boreal bird communities in the Northwest Territories''
Dean Koch PhD, UofA, Mark Lewis ''Dynamical systems and machine learning for modelling and predicting mountain pine beetle outbreaks''
Matthew Scrafford PhD, UofA, Mark Boyce ''Wolverine听ecology in a resource extraction area of听the boreal forest in northern Alberta''
Xavier Giroux-Bougard PhD, McGill, Jeff Cardille and听Murray Humphries ''Monitoring movement, seasonal range and sexual segregation in barren ground caribou herds of the Northwest Territories''
Bertrand Charry MSc, McGill, Murray Humphries ''Use of aerial photography to investigate population dynamics and summer distribution of narwhals in Nunavut''
2014
Melissa Lenker MSc, McGill, Chris Solomon ''Modeling population dynamics and recommending management scenarios for a recreational lake trout fishery''
Nicola Craig PhD, McGill, Chris Solomon ''Impacts of terrestrial dissolved organic carbon on secondary consumer productivity in lake food webs''
Marianne Falardeau-C么t茅 PhD, McGill, Elena Bennett ''Impacts of climate change and industrialization on arctic marine food webs and ecosystem services''
Allyson Menzies PhD, McGill, Murray Humphries ''Using biologging technology to investigate temporal and spatial variation in energy expenditure of free-ranging mammals''
M茅lanie-Louise Leblanc PhD, McGill, Murray Humphries ''Understanding ecological relationships between waterfowl, eelgrass, and coastal development''
Nicolas Brunet PhD, McGill, Gordon Hickey and听Murray Humphries ''Assessing stakeholder participation in northern scientific research''