Catalogue of Previous MSc Theses

A - F

• Aboagye (2015) - exogenous fibrolytic enzymes [supervisor Church]
• Ahmadvand (2025) - information communication technology at hotels: exploring consumers economic and environmental values as sustainability pillars [supervisor Thomas-Francois]
• Alnahdi (2014) – cave bacteria [supervisor Cheeptham]
• Andruscon (2021) - bisphenol in drinking water [supervisor Donkor]
• Ani (2017) - earthquake damage cost analysis [supervisors Gu & Paetkau]
• Antonelli (2018) - native plant recovery on copper mine tailings [supervisor Fraser]
• Atherton (2025) - investigating the methane mitigation potential of locally abundant seaweeds in cattle feed supplements through chemical analyses [supervisor Prema, Co-supervisor Church]
• Atkins (2021) - western rattlesnake population in british columbia [supervisor Larsen]
• Baethke (2015) - mine restoration of a native grassland [supervisor Fraser]
• Baral (2021) - turbulance in landfill gas flow [supervisor Nec]
• Baron (2017) - mapping invasive plants using RPAS and remote sensing [supervisor Hill]
• Barsevskis (2022) - snow characteristics with blade hardness gauge [supervisor Paetkau]
• Basaraba (2014) – turtle ecology [supervisor Larsen]
• Bassett (2009) - carabid beetles [supervisor Fraser]
• Bayliff (2022) - effects of mowing, irrigation, and fertilization [supervisor Fraser]
• Belanger-Jumeau (2025) - recovery of southern mountain caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) habitat following wildfire in Ulkatcho territory, British Columbia, Canada [supervisor Harvey]
• Bezooyen (2025) - trends in hourly weather and fire weather indices across biogeoclimatic zones in British Columbia under a changing climate [supervisor Flannigan]
• Bogetti (2024) - at risk or dismissed? Making the case for designated species at risk legislation in British Columbia [supervisor Mason]
• Boham (2023) - counter-intuitive nature of gas flow in anisotropic porous media [supervisor Huttunen-Hennelly]
• Biddlecomb (2022) - the influence of prolonged sitting [supervisor Rakobowchuk]
• Blair (2019) - population ecology of the american pika [supervisor Larsen]
• Boule (2018) - sport hunting, conservaton, and ecosystem sustainabilty [supervisor Mason]
• Boutaib (2022) - characterization of granular materials using a blade hardness gauge [supervisor Paetkau]
• Boyda (2021) - RT-qPCR genetic studies of lodgepole pine dwarf mistletoe [supervisors Kwiatowska and Urban]
• Bradley (2020) - reducing the cumulative effects of timber harvest and livestock grazing [supervisors Gardner & Fraser]
• Brouwers (2025) - transforming landscapes: quantifying soil health, crop yield and carbon dynamics following forest and grassland conversion [supervisor Fraser]
• Chisholm (2023) - showshoe hare habitat use in the sub-boreal forests of north-central British Columbia [supervisors Larsen and Hood]
• Chowdhury (2018) - human dimension of asian elephant conservation [supervisor Larsen]
• Clark (2015) - effects of livestock grazing [supervisor Heise]
• Coelho (2015) - climate change induced declines in ponds [supervisor Gardner]
• Coghill (2021) - soil legacy effects of spotted knapweed [supervisor Fraser]
• Cox (2013) – global climate change & ranching [supervisor Fraser]
• Denesiuk (2018) - grazing management [supervisor Fraser]
• Doutaz (2019) - columbia river northern pike [supervisor Heise]
• Drach (2023) - chemical exposure and menstrual regulation [supervisor Huttunen-Hennelly]
• Dufort-Lefrancois (2015) - exploring capillary electrophoresis methods [supervisor Huttunen-Hennelly]
• Duncan (2016) - western painted turtles (supervisor Larsen)
• Dungey (2023) - restoration of semi-arid grasslands using priority effects and soil amendments [supervisor Fraser]
• Dzumek (2021) - mine reclamation and nitrogen cycling [supervisor Fraser]
• Egeland (2025) - towards improved bioreactor design for remote field scale hydrocarbon bioaugmentation [supervisor Cheeptham, Co-supervisor Donkor]
• Ernst (2014) – landscape connectivity [supervisor Klenner]
• Evans (2017) - mound microsites [supervisor Gardner]
• Eye (2022) - female western rattlesnakes [supervisor Larsen]
• Farooq (2015) - analysis of bisphenol a (BPA) in environmental waters [supervisor Donkor]
• Fischer (2023) - response of soil geochemical properties and microbial communities to long-term storage in mines [supervisor Fraser]
• Fogarty (2023) factors driving the decline of fishers in central Interior British Columbia [supervisor Larsen]
• Folkard (2012) – pine silvopastures [supervisor Fraser]
• Fontaine (2021) - western bat species [supervisors Cheeptham & Lausen]
• Foster (2019) - effects of the invasive plant spotted knapweed [supervisor Fraser]
• France (2015) - behaviour of south thompson california bighorn sheep [supervisor Gardner]
• Freitag (2024) - impacts of climate change and habitat loss of long-billed curlews [supervisor Reudink]

G - L

• Garner (2012) – spadefoots at northern limit [supervisor Larsen]
• Gervan (2023) - arthropod recovery in post-mine reclaimed sites [supervisor Fraser]
• Gidora (2025) – investigation of eDNA air sampling as a tool for bat conservation and management [supervisor Fraser and Lausen]
• Gilbert (2012) – salinity and disturbance on grass [supervisor Fraser]
• Gillich (2023) - snow dynamics and soil moisture in commercially thinned lodgepole pine silvopastures [supervisor Fraser]
• Gordon (2022) - testing cattle grazing management as a restoration tool [supervisor Fraser]
• Gunawardana (2018) - factors affecting movements of terristrial isopods [supervisor Larsen]
• Hales (2011) – small mammals and grasslands [supervisor Larsen]
• Hamilton (2018) - intertidal invertebrate species [supervisor Gosselin]
• Hazel (2018) - music festivals in british columbia [supervisor Mason]
• Hansen (2011) – restoring abalone [supervisor Gosselin]
• Harvey (2015) - summer habitat use by western rattlesnakes [supervisor Larsen]
• Hodder (2016) - habitat selection and occupancy patterns of american mink [supervisor Larsen]
• House (2021) - arctic grayling spawning behaviour [supervisor Heise]
• Howarth (2023) - western rattlesnake migration and habitat [supervisor Larsen]
• Huebel (2012) – heli-skiing and mountain caribou [supervisor Dickinson]
• Iwabuchi (2019) - implications for intertidal invertebrate population [supervisor Gosselin]
• Jeff-Zanni (2018) - environmental and economic growth trends [supervisor Tsigaris]
• Jenewein (2013) – mortality of marine invertebrates [supervisor Gosselin]
• Johnston (2018) - struggle for increased representation in jasper national park [supervisor Mason]
• Joly (2024) - influence of neighbours on reproductive success of mountain bluebirds and tree swallows [supervisor Reudink]
• King (2019) - outdoor pet cats in an urban environment [supervisor Tsigaris]
• Klafki (2014) – road ecology of badgers [supervisor Larsen]
• Kuang (2015) - effects of spotted knapweed [supervisor Fraser]
• Lishman (2015)  - rainfall redistribution [supervisor Carlyle-Moses]
• Lloyd (2025) - what’s wildlife worth? assessing the recreational, educational and conservation value of the BC Wildlife Park [supervisor Tsigaris]
• Lomas (2013) – effects of disturbance on rattlesnakes [supervisor Larsen]
• Kega (2021) – forage productivity and soil carbon sequestration [supervisor Fraser]

M - R

• Maciak (2011) – funding water system improvements [supervisor Tsigaris]
• Maida (2018) - western rattlesnake spring movements [supervisors Larsen & Bishop]
• Manwaring (2023) - BC CANFIRE: examining effects of climate change and forest changes on fuel management treatments [supervisor Flannigan]
• Marcisz (2021) - ranges and forays of bighorn sheep [supervisors Larsen & Hill]
• Margetts (2022) - smallmouth bass in cultus lake [supervisor Heise]
• Marini (2016) - city life and chickadees [supervisor Reudink]
• Martin (2014) - regional frequency analysis [supervisor Carlyle-Moses]
• Maslowski (2024) - impacts of wildfires on high-elevation forests in Glacier National Park [supervisor Harvey]
• Massey (2021) - adams river salmon run in tsutswecw provincial park [supervisor Mason]
• McAdie (2018) - population health in the vancouver island marmot [supervisors Larsen & Stephen]
• McArthur (2016) - cavity nesting songbirds [supervisor Reudink]
• McCulloch (2013) – precipitation and clipping effects on grasslands [supervisor Fraser]
• McKee (2010) – lodgepole pine stemflow [supervisor Carlyle-Moses]
• McKelvey (2024) - natural and artificial hibernacula use by three sympatric snake species [supervisor Larsen]
• McLennan (2025) - biological communities in reclaimed post-mining landscapes of British Columbia: from monitoring to management [supervisor Van Hamme]
• Mendt (2021) - the role of energy reserves on mortality [supervisor Gosselin]
• Milne (2018) - interactions between indolicidin and its analogs with lopopolysaccharide [supervisor Huttunen-Hennelly]
• Moote (2013) – supplementing cattle rations [supervisors Van Hamme & Church]
• Mufford (2020) - use of unmanned aerial vehicles to study cattle heat stress [supervisor Church]
• Neumann (2019) - sustainable management of backcountry trail networks [supervisor Mason]
• O'Connell (2020) - biochemical factors governing the enzymatic desulfonation [supervisor Van Hamme]
• Oluwayomi (2024) - leveraging liver cancer algorithm and spiral updates for feature selection [supervisor Tawhid]
• Pageau (2020) – evolution of moulting strategies and altitudinal migration of passerines [supervisor Reudink]
• Patino Garces (2025) - ecosystem principles for British Columbia protected areas: strategic planning and decision-making in Wells Gray Provincial Park [supervisor Mason]
• Paulson (2020) – effects on growth of native and non-native species in temperate grasslands [supervisor Fraser]
• Petersen (2010) – buffer strips and bryophyte diversity [supervisor Baldwin]
• Phillips (2017) - copper molybdenum mine tailings [supervisors Gardner & Pypker]
• Pillar (2014) – moult-migration and productivity in orioles [supervisor Reudink]
• Pouw (2019) - structure and representation of ecological data [supervisor Kwiatkowska]
• Prytula (2022) - tracking changes in migration for vaux's swifts and chimney swifts using community science [supervisor Reudink]
• Ragsdale (2025) - movement patterns of free-ranging and translocated snakes (Pituophis catenifer deserticola and Coluber constrictor mormon) in southwestern Canada [supervisor Larsen, Co-supervisor Isaac]
• Rahman (2016) - lives of poor migrants to dhaka city [supervisors Dickinson & Church]
• Raymond (2013) – carbon footprint of cattle grazing [supervisor Church]
• Richardson (2015) - comparison of random forests [supervisor Fraser]
• Ross, M (2016) - distribution of plant functional groups [supervisor Baldwin]
• Ross, P (2019) - examining local food procurement [supervisor Mason]

S - Z

• Sahebi (2024) - Multi-scale spatial image analysis for mapping spotted knapweed in grassland ecosystems” [supervisor Hill]
• Sajid (2023) - transformative drivers of environmental sustainability in contemporary organization [supervisor  Tsigaris]
• Sapozhnikova (2012) – carbon sequestration in grasslands [supervisor Fraser]
• Schmidt (2014) – herbaceous plant communities in grasslands [supervisor Fraser]
• Schoen (2025) - short-term impacts of the Site C Dam on the threatened bank swallow (Riparia riparia) [supervisors Reudink and Imlay]
• Schooling (2014) - stemflow production from isolated deciduous trees [supervisor Carlyle-Moses]
• Sepehri (2023) - controlling surface flux in landfill-well coupled flow in perforated horizontal wells [supervisor Nec] 
• Simmonds (2012) - environmental practices used in commercial sea kayaking [supervisor Hood]
• Smith (2012) - drivers of wetland zooplankton community structure [supervisor Heise]
• Smith (2023) - community and social justice approaches to food security in Kamloops, BC [supervisor Mason]
• Spruyt (2024) - road mortality mitigation in snakes [supervisor Larsen]
• Swan (2019) - assessing private land fuel management treatments [supervisor Gardner]
• Symes (2013) – winter ecology of badgers [supervisor Larsen]
• Taiwo (2020) - application of capillary electrophoresis [supervisor Donkor]
• Tattersfield (2013) – feeding ecology and movement of perch [supervisor Heise]
• Taylor (2009) – willingness to pay for recycling [supervisor Tsigaris]
• Terpsma (2018) - variability in soil available water [supervisor Pypker]
• Tran (2018) - analytical characterization of choline chloride [supervisor Donkor]
• Turner (2024) - prealternate moult in nonbreeding period carry-over effects in neotropical migratory songbirds [supervisor Reudink]
• Valle Pinuela (2025) - the application of geographic information systems (GIS) technologies to monitor and support sustainable tourism in the Thompson-Okanagan region [supervisor Thomas-Francois]
• Vandermale (2023) - sustainable land-based food systems and Indigenous-led conservation in the Dehcho region, NWT [supervisor Mason]
• Volpatti (2013) – grazing response index of forage species [supervisor Gardner]
• Wester (2024) - developing climate resilient beef cattle with superior meat quality [supervisor Church]
• Whitehouse, R (2021) - ecologically based weed management [supervisor Fraser]
• Whitehouse, S (2019) - biosolids in bc's southern interior [supervisor Fraser]
• Williams (2022) - utilizing indigenous prescribed burning methods [supervisor Fraser]
• Winton (2018) - road mortality on the western rattlesnake [supervisors Larsen & Bishop]
• Xiao (2024) - biosolids to restore native plant communities [supervisor Fraser]
• Zelmer (2025) - vertical challenges: building sustainable rock climbing in Banff National Park [supervisor Mason]

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