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!”
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Congratulations on graduating, Mary Legorburu!
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!”
Celebrating 2024-2025 awards and scholarships to Westwood Lab members
Congratulations to Dr. Alana Westwood, Dr. Alana Lajoie-O’Malley, Samantha Chu, and Mary Legorburu for recently being awarded highly competitive awards. Dr. Westwood was awarded the Top Cited Article Award for the paper on “A systematic map of knowledge exchange across the science-policy interface for forest science: How can we improve consistency and effectiveness?” This paperContinue reading “Celebrating 2024-2025 awards and scholarships to Westwood Lab members “
Congratulations on graduating, Ali MacKellar!
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!”
EFRI Kickoff Workshop
The EFRI Kick-Off workshop was held from September 4-6, 2024. The first day of the workshop was an introduction to the Nova Scotia Forest Ecosystem Classification (FEC) Guide led by the co-author of the guide, Peter Neily. Students had an opportunity to learn in the field about how to classify a forest stand using theContinue reading “EFRI Kickoff Workshop”
Congratulations on graduating, Rosie Bleyer!
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!”
Celebrating recent awards and scholarships to Westwood Lab members
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 upcomingContinue reading “Celebrating recent awards and scholarships to Westwood Lab members “
Dal professors and researchers make key recommendations to reform environmental assessment in Nova Scotia
Several weeks ago, Nova Scotia’s Department of Environment and Climate Change offered Nova Scotians the opportunity to weigh in on their commitment to modernize the environmental assessment (EA) process as defined in the Environmental Goals and Climate Change Reduction Act. Some of Dalhousie’s leading experts in the area, including Dr. Alana Westwood, Ali MacKellar, BenContinue reading “Dal professors and researchers make key recommendations to reform environmental assessment in Nova Scotia “
Congratulations on graduating, Riley Scanlan!
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!”
Celebrating recent awards and scholarships at the Lab
Congratulations are in order for lab member, Riley Scanlan for winning a presenter award for her paper presentation at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers in May 2023. Awesome job, Riley! Incoming MES Student, Samantha Chu also earned a Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarship for her thesis proposal investigating the knowledge exchange preferencesContinue reading “Celebrating recent awards and scholarships at the Lab “
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