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 “
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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 “
Well Wishes for Westwood Lab Graduates
Congratulations to Sasha Mines and Geneva Bahen! Sasha Mines is graduating from Dalhousie with a Bachelor Arts, Combined Honours in Environment, Sustainability and Society & Law, Justice and Society. She minored in French and earned a certificate in Indigenous studies. Her undergraduate honour’s thesis offers an examination of Nova Scotia’s Endangered Species Act (ESA) to provide valuableContinue reading “Well Wishes for Westwood Lab Graduates”
Westwood Lab in partnership with AC CDC hosts workshop to address the knowledge gaps, barriers, and challenges of species distribution modelling
“All models are wrong, but some are useful” – George E. P. Box. This quote was the mantra for a Species Distribution Modelling Workshop at Dalhousie University over January 12 and 13 hosted by the Westwood Lab, in partnership with members from the Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Center (AC CDC). Many bright minds congregated atContinue reading “Westwood Lab in partnership with AC CDC hosts workshop to address the knowledge gaps, barriers, and challenges of species distribution modelling”
ALANA WESTWOOD RECEIVES 2021 ‘BELONG’ GRANT FROM DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY
Dr. Alana Westwood receives one of Dalhousie’s 2021 BELONG grants for pre-tenure faculty from equity-deserving groups. Funds from this grant will be used to investigate if and how past species distribution modelling and spatially-explicit land-use planning using Indigenous knowledge about Tǫdzı (boreal caribou in one Dene dialect) has respected best practices for supporting the agency andContinue reading “ALANA WESTWOOD RECEIVES 2021 ‘BELONG’ GRANT FROM DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY”
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