Congratulations to lab members Samantha Chu and Ben Collison for recently being awarded highly competitive scholarships from the federal tri-council funding agencies.
Sam’s MES thesis proposal “Effective researcher-end-user knowledge exchange: understanding the preferences of foresters” earned her a Canada Graduate Scholarship – Masters from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for the upcoming academic year. She also recently won the inaugural Mary Margaret Werner Graduate Scholarship from Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Science for high academic achievement. In addition to these, she also won the Neil Munro Parks and Protected Areas Award and the Colin Stewart Scholarship for Studies on Parks and Protected Areas in the Acadian Forest Region.
Ben secured a Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to fund his thesis research over the next three years, entitled “Ecological forestry in practice: informing forest management approaches to mitigate impacts to freshwater fish habitat in the Wabanaki forest region.” He was also awarded a scholarship as part of Dalhousie University’s 2024 OpenThink PhD cohort of top science communicators.
Sam and Ben are current trainees as Leaders in Energy Sustainability, with new lab member Mary Legorburu joining as an undergraduate trainee for the summer. Their enrolment is funded by the NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) program.
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