Andrew Trant
Associate Professor
School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo
atrant (at) uwaterloo.ca
(519) 888-4567 ex 30385
Patrick Lauriault
PhD Student
Lover of lichens
Katie Pita
PhD Student
Historical Ecology of Castles and Camps
Kyle Schang
PhD student
Kyle’s PhD work is looking at tree range dynamics (past and present) across Southern Ontario.
Sara Wickham
PhD Candidate, 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
Kyra Kestrel
NSERC USRA Summer researcher and honours student (2023-2024)
Camera traps and the Pacific Northwest
Julia Deveau
NSERC USRA Summer researcher and honours student (2023-2024)
Labrador and beyond
FORMER LAB FOLKS
Elizabeth Cunningham
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: Alberta Government
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..