Recent Graduate Student Research

Below you will find an archive of research projects by students in our Master of Environmental Sciences (MESc) and Master of Environmental Studies (MES) graduate programs, grouped by year (for current and ongoing research projects, visit the profile pages of our faculty members):

2021

Name	Program	Route	Title	Supervisor(s)
NameYsabel Castle	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleThe potential influence of environmental variables on spatial and temporal crime patterns in a small Canadian city: a case study of North Bay, Ontario, using call-for-service data, 2015-2019	Supervisor(s)J .Kovacs
NameElizabeth Elliot	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleOxygen isotope values of charred tree bark as an indicator of forest fire severity	Supervisor(s)J. Dech & E. Webb (Western)
NamePaige Linklater-Wong	ProgramMES	RouteThesis	TitleNohcimihk" - on the land": a study of traditional harvesting practices and their effects on the perceived mental health of Indigenous youth in the James Bay area	Supervisor(s)K.A. Greer; R. Bedard
NameChristopher Donaldson	ProgramMES	RouteThesis	TitleEnvironmental citizenship: attitudes and action in postsecondary education	Supervisor(s)O. Atari
NameTegan McWhirter	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleAnalysing stable oxygen isotopes in charred bark to reconstruct past fire conditions	Supervisor(s)J. Dech & E. Webb (Western)
NameJenna White	ProgramMES	RouteMRP	TitleCanada's relationship to the Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents: an analysis of international environmental governance on industrial incidents at the Canada-United States border	Supervisor(s)C. Dokis

2020

Name	Program	Route	Title	Supervisor(s)
NameMary Kelly	ProgramMES	RouteThesis	TitleLand as story: The embodied place of a hunter and trapper.	Supervisor(s)C. Dokis
NameCamilla Arbour	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleAssessing inputs of contaminants in the upper Ottawa River near the town of Témiscaming, Québec	Supervisor(s)L. Lovett Doust
NameRobyn Jones	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleInternal phosphorus loading and anoxia in a polymictic embayment : Callander Bay, Lake Nipissing	Supervisor(s)A.L. James; D. Walters
NameJane White	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleTotal phosphorus loading and surrogate relationships in a mixed land use Boreal Shield watershed	Supervisor(s)A.L. James
NameKeithen Sutherland	ProgramMES	RouteThesis	TitleFamily or bureaucratic traplines?: the registered trapline system as a tool of colonialism in Kashechewan	Supervisor(s)K. Srigley

2019

Name	Program	Route	Title	Supervisor(s)
NameLaurel Muldoon	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleUnderstanding site specific climate-growth relationships for ring widths and δ13C values of white spruce (piceaglauca) in the interior Alaska	Supervisor(s)A.L. James & A. Csank (Desert Research Institute - Reno)
NameNicholas Landry	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleThe relationship between environmental concern, attitudes, behavior; and the moderating roles of trait and acute learned helplessness	Supervisor(s)S. Arnocky
NameMiao Chen	ProgramMES	RouteThesis	TitleA survey of health units' experiences managing the risks of cyanobacteria blooms	Supervisor(s)D. Walters
NameVijanti Ramlogan Murphy	ProgramMES	RouteMRP	TitleThe media portrayal of First Nations drinking water advisories under the modern Trudeau era	Supervisor(s)D. Walters
NameAmanda Springer	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleUsing a multi-variate approach to describe the regeneration niche of black ash (Fraxinus nigra Marsh.) in the Great Lakes - St Lawrence forest	Supervisor(s)J. Dech
NameJessica Desrochers	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleDoes personality mediate the relationship between sex and environmentalism?	Supervisor(s)S. Arnocky
NameIke Obasi	ProgramMES	RouteMRP	TitleCommunity perceptions of the impacts of petroleum exploration on ground water in the Niger Delta, Nigeria	Supervisor(s)O. Atari
NameDouglas Chase	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitlePatterns of contaminant distribution in Lake Nipissing, Ontario	Supervisor(s)L. Lovett Doust
NameJamie Lavigne	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleCharacterization of thermal stratification and hypolimnetic hypoxia in polymictic precambrian shield embayment, Callander Bay, Ontario, Canada	Supervisor(s)A.L. James & D. Walters
NameReid Morris	ProgramMES	RouteThesis	TitleSpeaking for the trees : investigating the discourse regarding logging in Quetico and Algonquin Provincial Parks	Supervisor(s)J. Abbott
NameNatasha Ruszin	ProgramMES	RouteMRP	TitleEvaluating co-management of Lake Nipissing's fisheries	Supervisor(s)J. Abbott
NameRebecca Wyllie	ProgramMES	RouteThesis	TitleEstimating stand age from airborne laser scanning data to improve ecosite-based models of black spruce wood quality in the boreal forest of Ontario	Supervisor(s)J. Dech

2018

Name	Program	Route	Title	Supervisor(s)
NameNikki Commanda	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleLake sturgeon (acipenser fulvescens) management and status update for the Lake Nipissing watershed: part of the Great Lakes Upper St. Lawrence population, Ontario, Canada	Supervisor(s)R. Mirza
NameAdam Curran	ProgramMES	RouteThesis	TitleAssessing the implementation of Ontario’s Overall Benefit Permit Application: A case study approach Program	Supervisor(s)D. Walters

2017

Name	Program	Route	Title	Supervisor(s)
NameSonja Bols	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleBank swallows in Canada's north : an interdisciplinary study	Supervisor(s)K. Greer & B. Montgomerie (Queens)
NameMandy Ehnes	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleAcoustic monitoring of bird community composition in emerald ash borer damaged and at risk Southern Ontario forests	Supervisor(s)J. Dech & J. Foote (Algoma)
NameNancy England	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleHydrological characterization of the Sturgeon River watershed in Northeastern Ontario : a hydrometric and water isotope analysis	Supervisor(s)A.L. James
NameBrittany Germain	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleApplying a hydrologic classification approach to low gradient boreal watersheds	Supervisor(s)A.L. James & B. Branfireun (Western)
NameChristopher McConnell	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleIsotope mass balance in seasonally stratified lakes of South Central Ontario	Supervisor(s)A.L. James
NameAshley Ryan	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleEvaluating the efficiency of cyclic voltammetry using modified and unmodified glassy carbon electrodes for the analysis of sulfur containing compounds in water	Supervisor(s)S. Kariuki

2016

Name	Program	Route	Title	Supervisor(s)
NameDale Klodnicki	ProgramMESc	RouteMRP	TitleA Characterization of Benthic Invertebrate Community Assemblages in Northwestern Ontario Streams	Supervisor(s)R. Mirza
NameImane Meddah	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleIsolation and separation of the active portion in fathead minnow (pimephales promelas) injury-released alarm cue and comparison of its anti-predator behavoural activity with chondroitin sulfate	Supervisor(s)R. Mirza
NameZachary Rawluk	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleTrees and pollution : investigating the impact of sulfure dioxide using ring widths and stable isotopes	Supervisor(s)A. Csank

2015

Name	Program	Route	Title	Supervisor(s)
NameRhonda Gagnon	ProgramMES	RouteThesis	TitleThe Anishinabek Nation in the Great Lakes Basin and government perspectives on "why" consultation is important: an ethnographic approach	Supervisor(s)C. Dokis & D. Walters
NameDavid Poliquin	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleDetermination of conspecific alarm constituent and study of learned predator recognition in aquatic and terrestrial environments using newts	Supervisor(s)R. Mirza
NameCorrine Arthur	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleSpecies composition drives ecological stability in dry forests of the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence forest region of Ontario, Canada	Supervisor(s)J. Dech
NameMegan Prescott	ProgramMESc	RouteMRP	TitleCharacterizing mixing and stratification in Lake Nipissing embayments through employment of the lake analyzer package and an analysis of meteorological controls	Supervisor(s)D. Walters
NameJohn Perry	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleThe effect of environmental calcium on olfactory-mediated predator-prey interactions in pumpkinseed sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus)	Supervisor(s)R. Mirza

2014

Name	Program	Route	Title	Supervisor(s)
NameNathan Mountain	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleUnderstanding sources of streamflow to the Wasi watershed using stable water isotopes and hydrochemistry	Supervisor(s)A.L. James
NameAmanda Paulin	ProgramMES	RouteMRP	TitleOntario Forest Products: Branding and Certification	Supervisor(s)J. Dech

2013

Name	Program	Route	Title	Supervisor(s)
NameBrandon Brown	ProgramMES	RouteMRP	TitleAssessing recent federal responses to First Nations drinking water risks : a case study of Ontario	Supervisor(s)D. Walters
NameJeff Cable	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleInfluence of incidence angle and growth stage on polarimetric parameters of agricultural crops: An application using RADARSAT-2 multi-temporal data	Supervisor(s)J. Kovacs
NameCorrine Collin	ProgramMESc	RouteMRP	TitleThe suitability of Lake Shikwamkwa, in Northern Ontario, to support an introduced Lake Char population throughout all of its life stages	Supervisor(s)R. Mirza
NameSteven Piquette	ProgramMES	RouteMRP	TitleDetermination of Littoral Benthic Macroinvertebrate Diversity in Response to Calcium Decline in Northern Ontario Lakes	Supervisor(s)R. Mirza
NameOriana Pokorny	ProgramMESc	RouteMRP	TitleDuration of memory and the dear neighbour effect in male red-backed salamanders (Plethodon Cinereus)	Supervisor(s)R. Mirza
NameOlawale Sogbein	ProgramMESc	RouteMPR	TitleInvestigating the removal of dissolved heavy metals from industrial wastewaters using processed-peat and mined-zeolite	Supervisor(s)S. Kariuki
NameJennifer Thompson	ProgramMES	RouteMRP	TitleAgricultural promotion and apiculture in Ontario, 1880-1910	Supervisor(s)J. Murton
NameElisha Townshend	ProgramMESc	RouteMRP	TitleEcologically-based modeling of wood fibre length in black spruce (Picea Mariana)	Supervisor(s)J. Dech
NameJeff Wilson	ProgramMESc	RouteThesis	TitleThe application of hyperspectral remote sensing for crop separability and for monitoring crop biophysical parameters: a case study of the West Nipissing agricultural zone	Supervisor(s)J. Kovacs
NameJennifer Thompson	ProgramMES	RouteMRP	TitleAgricultural promotion and apiculture in Ontario, 1880-1910	Supervisor(s)J. Murton
NameDevan Grainger	ProgramMES	RouteMRP	TitleLarder Lake: A community amongst gold	Supervisor(s)J. Murton

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