Riley Scanlan is graduating from Dalhousie with a Master of Environmental Studies from the School for Resource and Environment Studies, in the Faculty of Science. Riley’s research focused on boreal forests in Unama’ki (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia), developing a novel, user-friendly approach to assess data quality and prioritizing areas for treeplanting to restore connectivity in parks and protected areas.
During their time as a student, Riley was an active member of the SRES Student Society and was awarded the Scotiabank Ethics in Action Award and a Neil Munro Parks and Protected Areas Award.
You can check out Riley’s full-length thesis on DalSpace.
Citation:
Scanlan, R. (2023, August). USING INFORMATION ON PAST AND PRESENT FOREST COVER TO GUIDE RESTORATION EFFORTS: AN ANALYSIS OF DATA QUALITY AND LANDSCAPE CONNECTIVITY IN UNAMA’KI (CAPE BRETON, NOVA SCOTIA). [Faculty of Graduate Studies Online Theses, Dalhousie University]. Dal Space. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/82760
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