Current graduate students
Md Tabrez Alam
Graduate student, PhD Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - Environmental Science (Fall 2020 - present)
MSc NRES - Environmental Science (UNBC, 2020)
BE Electronics and Communication (Visvesvaraya Technological University, Bangalore, India, 2012)
Supervisors: Dr. Youmin Tang and Dr. Siraj ul Islam
Dissertation topic: Impact of Easterly Wind Bursts on Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD)
Email: malam@unbc.ca
Saba Asadolah
Graduate student, PhD Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - Environmental Science (Fall 2022 - present)
MSc Satellite Climatology - Physical Geography (University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2017)
BSc Physical Geography (Shahid Behesht University, Tehran, Iran, 2014)
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Jackson
Dissertation topic: Satellite remote sensing of atmospheric trace constituents
Email: asadolah@unbc.ca
Krishna Kafle
Graduate student, MSc Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - Environmental Science (Fall 2023 - present)
BE Geomatics Engineering - Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing, Geospatial Programming (Kathmandu University, Nepal, 2017)
Supervisor: Dr. Siraj ul Islam
Thesis topic: Impact of land cover changes in hydrology of watersheds
Email: kafle@unbc.ca
Justin Kokoszka
MSc Natural Resources and Environmental Studies (Fall 2022 - present)
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Déry
Temitope Olufemi
Graduate student, MSc in Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - Environmental Science (Fall 2023 - present)
Bachelor of Agriculture - Soil Science (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, 2013)
Co-Supervisors: Dr. Theresa Adesanya and Dr. Ron Thring
Thesis topic: Characterizing the Impact of Dry-wet Cycles on Nutrient Fate and Transport in Soils
Email: olufemi@unbc.ca
James Rankin
MSc Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - Environmental Science (January 2023 - present)
BSc Honours Environmental and Resource Science (Trent University, 2022)
Co-Supervisor: Dr. Phil Owens and Dr. Faran Ali
Thesis topic: Sediment erosion, transport and deposition impacts on salmon spawning habitat in the Horsefly River
Email: jrankin@unbc.ca
Lisa Rickard
MSc Natural Resources and Environmental Studies (September 2022 - present)
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Déry
Behnoosh Roknaldini
MSc Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - Environmental Science (May 2023 - present)
MA Applied Climatology (University of Yazd, Iran, 2015)
BSc Natural Resources Engineering - Rangeland and Watershed Management (Hormozgan University, Iran, 2013)
Supervisor: Dr. Siraj ul Islam
Thesis topic: Modeling the Thermal Regimes of the Upper Peace River Basin
Email: roknaldin@unbc.ca
Celina Ruan
MSc Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - Environmental Science (May 2024 - present)
BHSc Biochemistry - Biomedical Research (McMaster University, 2024)
Co-Supervisors: Dr. Phil Owens and Dr. Jason Raine
Thesis topic: The effects of climate change (increasing water temperatures and wildifire ash) on salmon development
Email: ruan@unbc.ca
Mike Samoil
MSc Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - Environmental Science (September 2023 - present)
Co-Supervisors: Dr. Phil Owens and Dr. Faran Ali
Thesis topic: TBD
Email: samoilm@gmail.com
Bruno Serafini Sobral
PhD Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - Atmospheric Sciences (Fall 2020 - present)
MSc Biosystems Engineering
BSc Agricultural and Environmental Engineering
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Déry
Dissertation topic: Terrestrial Response to Atmospheric Rivers in the Nechako River Basin, British Columbia
Email: sobral@unbc.ca
Audrey-Ann St-Pierre
MSc Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - Environmental Science (Fall 2024 - present)
BSc Ecology (University of Sherbrooke, 2022)
DEC in laboratory - Biotechnologies (Ahuntsic College, 2019)
Supervisor: Dr. Phil Owens
Dissertation topic: Hydrocarbon Transport in Soil and Wildfire Science
Email: astpierre@unbc.ca
Ehsan Taghizadeh-Ghoozhdi
PhD Natural Resources and Environmental Studies (Spring 2024 – present)
PhD Meteorology (Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran, Iran, 2020)
MSc Meteorology (Yazd University, Yazd, Iran, 2010)
BSc Physics (Hakim Sabzevari University, 2007)
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Jackson
Dissertation topic: British Columbia Gap/Outflow Wind Interaction with Coastal Oceanography
Email: taghizade@unbc.ca
Meng Wang
MSc Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - Environmental Science (September 2023 - present)
MSc (Imperial College London, 2019)
BEng (Shanghai University, 2018)
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Déry
Thesis topic: TBD
Email: wangm@unbc.ca
Shanaka Weththasinghe
MSc Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - Environmental Science (September 2023 - present)
BEd (Yukon University, 2022)
BKin (University of Alberta, 2016)
Supervisor: Dr. Siraj ul Islam
Thesis topic: Hydrological predictions using different hydrological models with Python and R languages
Email: weththasi@unbc.ca
Devin Wittig
MSc Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - Environmental Science (September 2023 - present)
BEd (Yukon University, 2022)
BKin (University of Alberta, 2016)
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Déry
Thesis topic: TBD
Email: dwittig@unbc.ca
Kristen Kieta
PhD Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - Geography
MSc Natural Resources and Environmental Studies (UNBC, 2017)
BSc Environmental Science (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, 2011)
Co-Supervisors: Dr. Ellen Petticrew and Dr. Philip Owens
Dissertation topic: Determining sources of sediment in the Nechako River Basin using the sediment fingerprinting technique
Email: kieta@unbc.ca
Gabrielle Lint
MSc Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - Environmental Science
BSc Honours Environmental Science - Toxicology, Minor in Soil Science (University of Manitoba, 2018)
Supervisors: Dr. Ellen Petticrew and Dr. Philip Owens
Thesis topic: Effects of Mount Polley mine spill tailings on impacted lakes' phosphorus and chlorophyll-a concentrations
Email: lint@unbc.ca
Brayden Nilson
MSc Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - Environmental Science (UNBC, 2023)
BSc Environmental Science (UNBC, 2018)
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Jackson
Thesis topic: Calibration and spatiotemporal analysis of low-cost air quality sensor data
Selina Mitchell
MSc Natural Resources and Environmental Studies - Environmental Science (UNBC, 2022)
BSc Environmental Science (UNBC, 2007)
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Déry
Thesis topic: Precipitation Gradients Across the Continental Divide in the Southern Canadian Rockies