Category Archives: AWARD

Samantha Chu is graduating with a Master’s of Environmental Studies from Dalhousie University. Her study explores how forest professionals in Canada currently engage in knowledge exchange, their preferred methods for acquiring knowledge, the barriers they experience, and the state of trust they have in research, including the factors that influence that trust. You can checkContinue reading “Congratulations on graduating, Samantha Chu!”

Mary Legorburu is graduating with a Bachelor of Arts first-class Honours in Environmental Science and a minor in Gender & Women’s Studies from Dalhousie University. The thesis investigated the effects of forestry road crossings on stream habitat health in Napu’saqnuk (the St. Mary’s River watershed) in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia). Historical and current forestry activities (e.g.Continue reading “Congratulations on graduating, Mary Legorburu!”

Ali MacKellar is graduating with a Master’s of Environmental Studies from Dalhousie University. This thesis explores the connections between colonial resource extraction and queerness to fill a knowledge gap regarding the impacts of extraction on queer communities. By retracing the establishment of extractive industries as instruments of settler state expansion, unmasking the persistent systemic racism,Continue reading “Congratulations on graduating, Ali MacKellar!”

Rosie Bleyer is graduating with a Bachelor of Science in environmental science and a minor in Indigenous Studies from Dalhousie University. Using data collected in the field over the summer of 2023, in her Honours thesis Rosie has worked to identify and prioritize barriers to Atlantic salmon habitat connectivity in Napu’saqnuk (the St Mary’s River)Continue reading “Congratulations on graduating, Rosie Bleyer!”

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 inContinue reading “Congratulations on graduating, Riley Scanlan!”