Sorour Nasimi (PhD candidate, NRES)

• Master of Environmental Engineering (University of Tehran, Iran)

Supervisor: Dr. Jianbing Li

Dissertation topic: Enhancing water security in rural and remote areas incorporating traditional knowledge

Yihang Zhang (MA, NRES)

• BA, Media Economics and Management (Communication University of China)
• BA, Broadcasting and Television Playwright Directing - TV Editing (Communication University of China)

Supervisor: Dr. Zoë Meletis

Thesis topic: Bringing dinosaurs into the 2020s: considering current visitation and future virtual tourism possibilities for the Tumbler Ridge Museum and Geopark (B.C.)

E-mail: yihangz@unbc.ca 

Richard Darko (PhD candidate, NRES)

• BA, Economics (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology - Kumasi, Ghana, 2012)
• MA, Development Economics (University of Northern B.C., 2019)
• BA Honours, Archaeology (Archaeology Field School, SFU)

Supervisor: Dr. Greg Halseth

Dissertation topic: Economic restructuring in resource-dependent communities in the aftermath of mill/mine closure in northern British Columbia​

Jhoan Chavez (MSc, NRES)

• BSc, Environmental Engineering (National Agrarian University - La Molina, 2014)
• Environmental Engineer (National Agrarian University - La Molina/CIP, 2018)

Supervisor: Dr. Jianbing Li

Thesis topic: Agricultural Waste Management through Pyrolysis

Som Pun (PhD candidate, NRES)

Supervisor: Dr. Annie Booth

Dissertation topic: Linking Indigenous knowledge through adaptive silvicultural practices & decision-making: Assessment of reforestation objectives & Indigenous self-determination within Treaty 8 Territories, BC, Canada

Nella Hernandez (MSc, NRES)

• BSc (National Agrarian University – La Molina, 2005)
• MBA (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, 2017)

Supervisor: Dr. Flor Y. Garcia-Becerra and Dr. Greg Halseth

Dissertation topic: Socio-technological adoption of decentralized water systems in northern British Columbia informed by household gender roles

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/marianella-nella-hernández-2822a981

E-mail: mernande@unbc.ca

Bipana Maiya Sadadev (MSc, NRES)

• BSc, Forestry (Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University, Nepal)

Supervisor: Dr. Heather Bryan

Thesis topic: Conservation of Hog deer (Axis porcinus) via field survey and social survey in Shuklaphanta National Park, Nepal

E-mail: sadadev@unbc.ca 

Nisha Mehta (PhD candidate, NRES)

• MEd, Counselling Psychology (University of Western Ontario - 2010)

Supervisor: Dr. Annie Booth

Dissertation topic: Forced Environmental Migration: Tracing unearthed places and its peoples to the Americas

LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/nisha-mehta-m-ed-c-psych-ba87bab2

E-mail: Nmehta@unbc.ca

Lucas Middleton (MA, NRES)

• BA Hons, Sociology & English (St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish NS)

Supervisor: Dr. Jennifer Wigglesworth

Thesis topic: The experience of Canadian national parks as structured by the state

Kaitlyn Raine (MSc, NRES)

• BSc, Environmental Biology (University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, 2021)

Supervisor: Dr. Ché Elkin

Dissertation topic: Investigating the influences of competition by different densities of Trembling Aspen (Populus tremuloides) and site moisture on Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) growth under drought conditions caused by climate change

Halena Scanlon (MNRES)

Supervisor: Dr. Tristan Pearce

Dissertation topic: Pairing Scientific and Inuit Knowledge  to Understand Sympatric Populations of Arctic char (Iqalukpik, Salvelinus alpinus) in the Amundsen Gulf, Canada

E-mail: scanlon@unbc.ca