Andrew Trant
Associate Professor and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo
Research Fellow with the Cold Regions Research Centre at WLU
atrant (at) uwaterloo.ca
Kyle Schang
PhD Candidate
Kyle’s PhD work is looking at tree range dynamics (past and present) across Southern Ontario.
Alyssa Goulet
MES Candidate
Alyssa is working in Torngat Mountains National Parks on late-lying snowbeds and their impacts on plant communities.
Nhu Le
Master’s Student
Nhu is working in Torngat Mountains National Park (Nunatsiavut) on caribou forage and partridge habitat.
Shaugn Coggins
Master’s student (co-supervised by Derek Armitage)
Shaugn is working with the Long Point Biosphere Reserve. Project TBD.
Tara Ryan
Honours student / Accelerated Master’s Student (co-supervised by Linda Jewell)
Tara is a NunatuKavut Beneficiary working on bakeapple ethnoecology.
FORMER LAB FOLKS
Katie Pita
PhD
Historical ecology of castles and changes in ecosystem services through time.
Sara Wickham
PhD
NSERC CGM-D
Sara’s dissertation looks at understanding plant biodiversity across BC by understanding the relationships between plants and people over HUGE time scales.
Check out her website HERE
Patrick Lauriault
PhD
Lover of lichens
Katryna Barone
Current: Research technician, University of Alberta
Master’s student (co-supervised by Rob Way)
Kat loves grizzly bears but is studying the role of glaciers in stream ecology in Torngat Mountains National Park (Nunatsiavut). (She loves streams too.)
Taylor Montgomery-Stinson
Master’s student (co-supervised by Alain Currier)
Taylor is working in Nunatsiavut on cultural keystone places using interviews and repeat photography.
Kyra Kestrel
Current: Master’s student at the University of Guelph with Dr. Jessie Popp.
NSERC USRA Summer researcher and honours student (2023-2024)
Camera traps on clam garden in the Pacific Northwest
Monica Nguyen
Current: Master’s student at Memorial University with Dr. Carissa Brown. We miss her!
Honours student
Monica worked with the Nunatsiavut Government for her Honour’s work and is now doing a
Julia Deveau
Current: Master’s student in Manitoba
NSERC USRA Summer researcher and honours student (2023-2024)
Labrador and beyond
Elizabeth Cunningham
Current: Dillon Consulting
Master’s Student
Habitat connectivity in across southern Ontario
Emma Davis
Current position: Ecosystem Scientist for the Newfoundland and Labrador Government
Former: Garfield Weston Postdoctoral Fellow
Michaela Smitas-Kraas
NSERC USRA Summer researcher and honours student (2022-2023)
Shrubs, LiDAR, and laughter
Nhu Le
Current position: GIS Technician with Ontario Nature
Former: NSERC USRA Summer researcher and honours student (2020-2021)
Dr. Elaine Ho-Tassone
Current position: Postdoc at Algoma University
PhD (w/ Dr. Simon Courtenay)
Elaine is focusing on engaging scientists and government to sustainably co-manage freshwater resources in the Grand River watershed.
Check out her website HERE.
Alex Johnson
Current position: Indigenous Affairs
Former Master’s Candidate (NSERC CGS-M)
Jackie Kinney
NSERC USRA Summer researcher and honours student (2021-2022)
Siobhan Mullally
Current: Carolinian Canada
Former: NSERC USRA Summer researcher and honours student (2021-2022)
Kira Hoffman
Current position: NSERC PDF (UBC)
Kira is working on cultural burning and Indigenous fire management in Northern BC
Check out her website HERE
Alana Closs
Former Master’s Student / Hakai science technician
Alana grew up surrounded by the forests, lakes and rivers of Northern Saskatchewan. For her MES, Alana is examining ecological and cultural legacies of estuarine roots on the Central Coast of British Columbia.
Emily Swerdfager
Current position: MSc students at UofA
Former: Honours student (2020-2021)
Emily completed her honour’s research on long-term ecosystem change in Jasper National Park.
Taylor Larking
NSERC USRA Summer researcher and honours student (2019-2020)
For her senior honours research project, Taylor will be heading up to Labrador to conduct fieldwork on climate change related impacts on terrestrial ecosystems across Nunatsiavut and NunatuKavut.
Maddie Benner
Former honours student (2018-2019)
Maddie will be reconstructing historic forests of Waterloo using samples from the corduroy road.
Alexandra Langwieder
Current: PhD student at McGill University
Former: Honours student (2018-19)
Alexandra will be experimentally testing some aspect of ecological resilience.
Jessica Lockyer
Former honours student (2017-18)
For her honours thesis, Jess explored the relationship between the frequency and timing of climate change being covered in the media and the Federal Government of Canada over a 10-year period.
Now: Master's student in SRES at Dalhousie University in Halifax
Kelsea McIntosh
Former honours student (2017-18)
Kelsea's honours research examined how urban environments are affecting the growth of trees (specifically sugar maple, Acer saccharum).
Now: Energy engineer at CLEAResult
Sara Bohnert
Current: Master’s student in GEM
Former: Co-op student (Winter 2018)
During her semester in the lab, Sara did everything from microtoming shrub samples to research passenger pigeon. Hopefully one day she will be up here again as a MES/PhD student..