Catalogue of Previous MSc Theses
A - F
Aboagye (2015) - exogenous fibrolytic enzymes [supervisor Church]Alnahdi (2014) – cave bacteria [supervisor Cheeptham]Andruscon (2021) - bisphenol in drinking water [supervisor Donkor]Ani (2017) - earthquake damage cost analysis [supervisors Gu & Paetkau]Antonelli (2018) - native plant recovery on copper mine tailings [supervisor Fraser]Atkins (2021) - western rattlesnake population in british columbia [supervisor Larsen]Baethke (2015) - mine restoration of a native grassland [supervisor Fraser]Baral (2021) - turbulance in landfill gas flow [supervisor Nec]Baron (2017) - mapping invasive plants using RPAS and remote sensing [supervisor Hill]Barsevskis (2022) - snow characteristics with blade hardness gauge [supervisor Paetkau]Basaraba (2014) – turtle ecology [supervisor Larsen]Bassett (2009) - carabid beetles [supervisor Fraser]Bayliff (2022) - effects of mowing, irrigation, and fertilization [supervisor Fraser]Bezooyen (2025) - trends in hourly weather and fire weather indices across biogeoclimatic zones in British Columbia under a changing climate [supervisor Flannigan]Bogetti (2024) - at risk or dismissed? Making the case for designated species at risk legislation in British Columbia [supervisor Mason]Boham (2023) - counter-intuitive nature of gas flow in anisotropic porous media [supervisor Huttunen-Hennelly]Biddlecomb (2022) - the influence of prolonged sitting [supervisor Rakobowchuk]Blair (2019) - population ecology of the american pika [supervisor Larsen]Boule (2018) - sport hunting, conservaton, and ecosystem sustainabilty [supervisor Mason]Boutaib (2022) - characterization of granular materials using a blade hardness gauge [supervisor Paetkau]Boyda (2021) - RT-qPCR genetic studies of lodgepole pine dwarf mistletoe [supervisors Kwiatowska and Urban]Bradley (2020) - reducing the cumulative effects of timber harvest and livestock grazing [supervisors Gardner & Fraser]Chisholm (2023) - showshoe hare habitat use in the sub-boreal forests of north-central British Columbia [supervisors Larsen and Hood]Chowdhury (2018) - human dimension of asian elephant conservation [supervisor Larsen]Clark (2015) - effects of livestock grazing [supervisor Heise]Coelho (2015) - climate change induced declines in ponds [supervisor Gardner]Coghill (2021) - soil legacy effects of spotted knapweed [supervisor Fraser]Cox (2013) – global climate change & ranching [supervisor Fraser]Denesiuk (2018) - grazing management [supervisor Fraser]Doutaz (2019) - columbia river northern pike [supervisor Heise]Drach (2023) - chemical exposure and menstrual regulation [supervisor Huttunen-Hennelly]Dufort-Lefrancois (2015) - exploring capillary electrophoresis methods [supervisor Huttunen-Hennelly]Duncan (2016) - western painted turtles (supervisor Larsen)Dungey (2023) - restoration of semi-arid grasslands using priority effects and soil amendments [supervisor Fraser]Dzumek (2021) - mine reclamation and nitrogen cycling [supervisor Fraser]Ernst (2014) – landscape connectivity [supervisor Klenner]Evans (2017) - mound microsites [supervisor Gardner]Eye (2022) - female western rattlesnakes [supervisor Larsen]Farooq (2015) - analysis of bisphenol a (BPA) in environmental waters [supervisor Donkor]Fischer (2023) - response of soil geochemical properties and microbial communities to long-term storage in mines [supervisor Fraser]Fogarty (2023) factors driving the decline of fishers in central Interior British Columbia [supervisor Larsen]Folkard (2012) – pine silvopastures [supervisor Fraser]Fontaine (2021) - western bat species [supervisors Cheeptham & Lausen]Foster (2019) - effects of the invasive plant spotted knapweed [supervisor Fraser]France (2015) - behaviour of south thompson california bighorn sheep [supervisor Gardner]Freitag (2024) - impacts of climate change and habitat loss of long-billed curlews [supervisor Reudink]
G - L
Garner (2012) – spadefoots at northern limit [supervisor Larsen]Gervan (2023) - arthropod recovery in post-mine reclaimed sites [supervisor Fraser]Gilbert (2012) – salinity and disturbance on grass [supervisor Fraser]Gillich (2023) - snow dynamics and soil moisture in commercially thinned lodgepole pine silvopastures [supervisor Fraser]Gordon (2022) - testing cattle grazing management as a restoration tool [supervisor Fraser]Gunawardana (2018) - factors affecting movements of terristrial isopods [supervisor Larsen]Hales (2011) – small mammals and grasslands [supervisor Larsen]Hamilton (2018) - intertidal invertebrate species [supervisor Gosselin]Hazel (2018) - music festivals in british columbia [supervisor Mason]Hansen (2011) – restoring abalone [supervisor Gosselin]Harvey (2015) - summer habitat use by western rattlesnakes [supervisor Larsen]Hodder (2016) - habitat selection and occupancy patterns of american mink [supervisor Larsen]House (2021) - arctic grayling spawning behaviour [supervisor Heise]Howarth (2023) - western rattlesnake migration and habitat [supervisor Larsen]Huebel (2012) – heli-skiing and mountain caribou [supervisor Dickinson]Iwabuchi (2019) - implications for intertidal invertebrate population [supervisor Gosselin]Jeff-Zanni (2018) - environmental and economic growth trends [supervisor Tsigaris]Jenewein (2013) – mortality of marine invertebrates [supervisor Gosselin]Johnston (2018) - struggle for increased representation in jasper national park [supervisor Mason]Joly (2024) - influence of neighbours on reproductive success of mountain bluebirds and tree swallows [supervisor Reudink]King (2019) - outdoor pet cats in an urban environment [supervisor Tsigaris]Klafki (2014) – road ecology of badgers [supervisor Larsen]Kuang (2015) - effects of spotted knapweed [supervisor Fraser]Lishman (2015) - rainfall redistribution [supervisor Carlyle-Moses]Lomas (2013) – effects of disturbance on rattlesnakes [supervisor Larsen]Kega (2021) – forage productivity and soil carbon sequestration [supervisor Fraser]
M - R
Maciak (2011) – funding water system improvements [supervisor Tsigaris]Maida (2018) - western rattlesnake spring movements [supervisors Larsen & Bishop]Manwaring (2023) - BC CANFIRE: examining effects of climate change and forest changes on fuel management treatments [supervisor Flannigan]Marcisz (2021) - ranges and forays of bighorn sheep [supervisors Larsen & Hill]Margetts (2022) - smallmouth bass in cultus lake [supervisor Heise]Marini (2016) - city life and chickadees [supervisor Reudink]Martin (2014) - regional frequency analysis [supervisor Carlyle-Moses]Maslowski (2024) - impacts of wildfires on high-elevation forests in Glacier National Park [supervisor Harvey]Massey (2021) - adams river salmon run in tsutswecw provincial park [supervisor Mason]McAdie (2018) - population health in the vancouver island marmot [supervisors Larsen & Stephen]McArthur (2016) - cavity nesting songbirds [supervisor Reudink]McCulloch (2013) – precipitation and clipping effects on grasslands [supervisor Fraser]McKee (2010) – lodgepole pine stemflow [supervisor Carlyle-Moses]McKelvey (2024) - natural and artificial hibernacula use by three sympatric snake species [supervisor Larsen]Mendt (2021) - the role of energy reserves on mortality [supervisor Gosselin]Milne (2018) - interactions between indolicidin and its analogs with lopopolysaccharide [supervisor Huttunen-Hennelly]Moote (2013) – supplementing cattle rations [supervisors Van Hamme & Church]Mufford (2020) - use of unmanned aerial vehicles to study cattle heat stress [supervisor Church]Neumann (2019) - sustainable management of backcountry trail networks [supervisor Mason]O'Connell (2020) - biochemical factors governing the enzymatic desulfonation [supervisor Van Hamme]Oluwayomi (2024) - leveraging liver cancer algorithm and spiral updates for feature selection [supervisor Tawhid]Pageau (2020) – evolution of moulting strategies and altitudinal migration of passerines [supervisor Reudink]Paulson (2020) – effects on growth of native and non-native species in temperate grasslands [supervisor Fraser]Petersen (2010) – buffer strips and bryophyte diversity [supervisor Baldwin]Phillips (2017) - copper molybdenum mine tailings [supervisors Gardner & Pypker]Pillar (2014) – moult-migration and productivity in orioles [supervisor Reudink]Pouw (2019) - structure and representation of ecological data [supervisor Kwiatkowska]Prytula (2022) - tracking changes in migration for vaux's swifts and chimney swifts using community science [supervisor Reudink]Rahman (2016) - lives of poor migrants to dhaka city [supervisors Dickinson & Church]Raymond (2013) – carbon footprint of cattle grazing [supervisor Church]Richardson (2015) - comparison of random forests [supervisor Fraser]Ross, M (2016) - distribution of plant functional groups [supervisor Baldwin]Ross, P (2019) - examining local food procurement [supervisor Mason]
S - Z
Sahebi (2024) - Multi-scale spatial image analysis for mapping spotted knapweed in grassland ecosystems” [supervisor Hill]Sajid (2023) - transformative drivers of environmental sustainability in contemporary organization [supervisor Tsigaris]Sapozhnikova (2012) – carbon sequestration in grasslands [supervisor Fraser]Schmidt (2014) – herbaceous plant communities in grasslands [supervisor Fraser]Schooling (2014) - stemflow production from isolated deciduous trees [supervisor Carlyle-Moses]Sepehri (2023) - controlling surface flux in landfill-well coupled flow in perforated horizontal wells [supervisor Nec] Simmonds (2012) - environmental practices used in commercial sea kayaking [supervisor Hood]Smith (2012) - drivers of wetland zooplankton community structure [supervisor Heise]Smith (2023) - community and social justice approaches to food security in Kamloops, BC [supervisor Mason]Spruyt (2024) - road mortality mitigation in snakes [supervisor Larsen]Swan (2019) - assessing private land fuel management treatments [supervisor Gardner]Symes (2013) – winter ecology of badgers [supervisor Larsen]Taiwo (2020) - application of capillary electrophoresis [supervisor Donkor]Tattersfield (2013) – feeding ecology and movement of perch [supervisor Heise]Taylor (2009) – willingness to pay for recycling [supervisor Tsigaris]Terpsma (2018) - variability in soil available water [supervisor Pypker]Tran (2018) - analytical characterization of choline chloride [supervisor Donkor]Turner (2024) - prealternate moult in nonbreeding period carry-over effects in neotropical migratory songbirds [supervisor Reudink]Vandermale (2023) - sustainable land-based food systems and Indigenous-led conservation in the Dehcho region, NWT [supervisor Mason]Volpatti (2013) – grazing response index of forage species [supervisor Gardner]Wester (2024) - developing climate resilient beef cattle with superior meat quality [supervisor Church]Whitehouse, R (2021) - ecologically based weed management [supervisor Fraser]Whitehouse, S (2019) - biosolids in bc's southern interior [supervisor Fraser]Williams (2022) - utilizing indigenous prescribed burning methods [supervisor Fraser]Winton (2018) - road mortality on the western rattlesnake [supervisors Larsen & Bishop]Xiao (2024) - biosolids to restore native plant communities [supervisor Fraser]
