University of Alberta

Former graduate students

 

Dave Latham is a biologist with Fiera Biological. He was a PhD student with the ILM program where he studied caribou and wolf interactions in low productivity peatland complexes of northern Alberta.

Cecilia Arienti is a spatial ecologist with Fiera Biological. She was a Masters student with the ILM program where she studied the effect of anthropogenic linear features on forest fire ignition and initial suppression in northeastern Alberta.

Lucas Habib is a Park Warden in Jasper National Park. He was a Masters student with the ILM program where he studied the effects of chronic industrial noise disturbance on boreal forest songbirds.

 

Boyan Tracz is the Cumulative Effects Biologist for Sahtu Wildlife Management, Government of the Northwest Territories. He was a Masters student with the ILM program where he studied woodland caribou home range and habitat-use relationships to industrial activity in northeastern Alberta.

 

Jesse Dunford is an Environmental Scientist with Gartner Lee Limited. He was a Masters student with the ILM program where he studied woodland caribou-wildfire relationships in northern Alberta.

 

Arin MacFarlane was a Masters student in the ILM program. She evaluated the extent to which seismic lines change the structure and composition of edge communities.

 

Kerri Charest was a Masters student with the ILM program where she studied ungulate abundance and cumulative impacts in northern Alberta.

 

Nicole McCutchen is the Alberta Caribou Committee research co-ordinator. Nicole was a PhD student in the ILM Program. She used dynamic state programming models to predict how linear features influence prey use by wolves, and compared model results to detailed accounts of wolf movement and prey use obtained from GPS collars. She also used snow tracking to compare how wolves and their prey use conventional, altered, and natural lines.


Kim Dawe was a PhD Student in the ILM Program. She plans to test whether climate change and human development are the ultimate and proximate factors, respectively, promoting the northward expansion of white-tailed deer in northern Alberta.

Diane Haughland was a PhD Student in the ILM Program. She is evaluating a taxonomically-broad, correlative biodiversity monitoring program in terms of its strengths, weaknesses, and remedies.

Stephen Mayor was a PhD Student in the ILM Program. 

Jesse Tigner was a MSc Student in the ILM Program.
Last Modified: 2014-04-01