MA Theses

AWUME, Obadiah (M.A.) “Indigenizing ‘Water Security’” (September 2018) Supervisor: Dr. R. Patrick.

BOUVIER, Noelle H. (M.A.) “Theorizing Co-Production and Coexistence: A Case Study of Municipal-Indigenous Planning in Thompson, Manitoba” (September 2019) Supervisor: Dr. R. Walker.

FOSTER, Serena D. (M.A.) “ ‘After the SEA’ – Using Military Intelligence Protocols to Translate Strategic Environmental Assessment Results into Operational Directives” (April 2019) Supervisor: Dr. J. Blakley.

HEENDENIYA VIDANARAL, Apeksha M. (M.A.) “Impact of Inter-Community and Inter-Jurisdictional Mobility of First Nations on Tuberculosis and Tuberculosis Prevention and Care Programming.” (June 2020) Supervisor: Dr. P. Hackett.

HERMAN, Lindsay Victoria (M.A.) “Conceptualizing Age-Friendly Communities for Saskatoon’s Chinese-Canadian Older Adults” (April 2018) Supervisor: Dr. R. Walker.

THIESSEN, Bethany (M.A.) “Understanding Arctic Shipping Impacts and Mitigation Impact Assessment as a Tool for Knowledge Brokerage” (June 2019) Supervisors: Drs. B. Noble, K. Hanna.

MSc Theses

ARMSTRONG, Maria (M.Sc.) “Water Quality Impacts of Wetland Drainage and Climate Change in Prairie Pothole Region” (August 2018) Supervisors: Drs. C. Westbrook and H. Baulch.

BREE, Sarah L. (M.Sc.) “Access to Transit? Validating Local Transit Accessibility Measures Using Transit Ridership” (February 2020) Supervisor: Dr. E. Diab. 

DUTTA, Nipa (M.Sc.) “Recurring Issues and Concerns in Wind Energy Project Environmental Assessments: Analysis of Western Canada” (December 2020) Co-Supervisors: Drs. B. Noble and G. Poelzer.

DOAN, Thuy Thi Minh (M.Sc.) “Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in Modelling Bison Carrying Capacity in Mixed-Grass Prairie” (November 2019) Supervisor: Dr. X. Guo.

ENGLAND, Kirby (M.Sc.) “Busy Beavers in the Big City: An Analysis of Beaver Distribution, Foraging and Non-Lethal Forage Management in Urban Riverine Forests” (October 2019) Supervisor: Dr. C. Westbrook.

LI, Meng (M.Sc.) “Evaluate Post-Fire Vegetation Recover in North American Mixed Prairie using RS Approaches” (April 2018) Supervisor: Dr. X. Guo.

MARTIN, Kristin D. (M.Sc.) “Radon Gas Detection via Vegetation Spectra Responses Using Space-borne Remote Sensing: A Tool for Uranium Exploration” (May 2019) Supervisor: Dr. X. Guo.

MERCER, Jason Joel (M.Sc.) “Insights into Mountain Wetland Resilience to Climate Change: An Evaluation of the Hydrologic Processes Contributing to the Hydrodynamics of Alpine Wetlands in the Canadian Rocky Mountains” (May 2018) Supervisor: Dr. C. Westbrook. 

NEWMAN, Kevin (M.Sc.) “An integrated analysis of sediment geochemistry and flood history of floodplain lakes in the Athabasca Region” (August 2019) Co-Supervisors: Drs. D. de Boer and M. Evans.

NIJHUM, Farzana Q. (M.Sc.) “Evaluation of Alternative Future Scenarios of Saskatoon’s Northeast Swale to Develop and Advance an Ecosystem Services-Based SEA Framework” (June 2020) Co-Supervisors: Drs. B. Noble and C. Westbrook. 

QIAO, Ning (M.Sc.) “Long Term Prairie Wetlands Extraction and Change Detection with Multi-spatial and Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Data” (February 2018) Co-supervisors: Drs. X. Guo and L. Martz.

SCHULTZ, Juliane (M.Sc.) “Factors Facilitating and Constraining the Inclusion of First Nations in Watershed Planning in Alberta, Canada” (June 2020) Supervisor: Dr. R. Patrick. 

STOLL, Nichole Lynn (M.Sc.) “Beaver Dam Capacity In the Canadian Boreal Plains Ecozone: An Analysis of Riding Mountain National Park” (December 2019) Supervisor: Dr. C. Westbrook.

STREICH, Stephanie C. (M.Sc.) “The Hydrological Function of a Mountain Valley-Bottom Peatland Under Drought Conditions” (May 2019) Supervisor: Dr. C. Westbrook.

WONG, Lindsay (M.Sc.) “Water Quality Data to Support Cumulative Effects Decision-Making in the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories” (May 2018) Co-supervisors: Drs. B. Noble and K. Hanna (UBC).

ZARCHESHM, Mohammadreza (M.Sc.) “Delineation of Surface Water Bodies Using Radarsat-2 data and TOPAZ masking approach over the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) in Canada” (March 2018) Supervisor: Dr. L. Martz.

PhD Theses

CUI, Tengfei (Ph.D.) “Investigating the Optimal Temporal Resolution of Satellite Data to Detect Climate-Induced Grassland Phenology Changes” (September 2019) Supervisor: Dr. X. Guo.

HARDER, Phillip S. (Ph.D.) “Snow-stubble-atmosphere interactions during Snowmelt on the Canadian Prairies” (April 2018) Co-supervisors: Drs. J. Pomeroy and W. Helgason.

KARRAN, Daniel James (Ph.D.) “The Engineering of Peatland form and Function by Beaver (Castor spp.)” (April 2018) Co-supervisors: Drs. C. Westbrook and A. Bedard-Haughn.

KROGH NAVARRO, Sebastian Alberto (Ph.D.) “Past and Future Hydrology Near the Arctic Treeline” (October 2018) Supervisor: Dr. J. Pomeroy.

LEROUX, Nicolas R. (Ph.D.) “Mass and Heat Flow through Snowpacks” (May 2018) Supervisor: Dr. J. Pomeroy.

LV, Zhibang (Ph.D.) “Assimilation of Snow Information into a Cold Regions Hydrological Model” (August 2019) Supervisor: Dr. J. Pomeroy.

MALEK MOHAMMAD NEJAD, Sarem (Ph.D.) “City Planning, Design and Programming for Indigenous Urbanism and Ethnocultural Diversity in Winnipeg” (March 2018) Supervisor: Dr. R. Walker.

MARSH, Christopher Brendan (Ph.D.) “Multi-scale Modelling of Cold Regions Hydrology” (August 2019) Co-Supervisors: Drs. J. Pomeroy and  H. Wheater.

MORRISON, Alasdair D. (Ph.D.) “Moving from Flood Resistance to Resilience; “Still doing it the hard way” in Western Canada” (September 2019) Co-Supervisors: Drs. B. Noble, C. Westbrook.

OWUSU, Boabang (Ph.D.) “Les Michif Aski ~ Métis and the Land. Perceptions of the Influence of Space and Place on Aging Well in Île-à-la-Crosse” (December 2020) Co- Supervisors: Drs P. Hackett and S. Oosman.

PRADHANANGA, Dhiraj H. (Ph.D.) “Response of Canadian Rockies Glacier Hydrology to Changing Climate” (January 2020) Supervisor: Dr. J. Pomeroy.