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REN R 480/580 - Applied statistics for the environmental & life sciences
Permanent link: http://tinyurl.com/rr480
Course instructor: Dr. Andreas Hamann, GSB 733, 492-6429, andreas.hamann@ualberta.ca
Time & Location: Fall Terms, Tuesday & Thursday 8:00 to 9:20am, Thursday 12:30-1:50pm, GSB 866.
Online version: This course is the online equivalent of course RENR 480/580, tought at the University of Alberta.
If you want to "audit" the class, or could not enroll because the class was full, you may use the self-study material below. The course focuses on problem formulation, method selection, and interpretation of statistical analysis, with applications focussed on the environmental and life sciences. The course covers data management and data visualization, statistical tests for parametric, non-parametric and binomial data, linear and non-linear regression approaches. Registered participants will also engage in problem-based learning by analyzing simulated or publicly available datasets, or by working with data from their thesis research project.
Registered students: If you take RENR 480/580 for credit, then log into the University of Alberta eClass section for this course instead: http://tinyurl.com/rr480/eclass
On-line self-study material
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| Course introduction Introduction, target audience, statistics and science, course objectives |
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| Unit 1: Introduction to R What is R, working with the R console, working efficiently with scripts, importing data to R, jailbreaking R |
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| Unit 2: Statistical design & data tables Standard data table format, variable types, statistical concepts implied by data tables |
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R Cheat: 2.1.  2.2. 2.3. |
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| Unit 3: Data visualization and descriptive statistics Exploratory graphics, numerical and graphical data summaries, degrees of freedom, error and bias |
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Lab 3: , Lab 3 (gg): Lab 4: , Lecture notes: 3.1. 3.2. 3.3.
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| Unit 4: Statistical foundations Replication, randomization, independence, normal distributions, central limit theorem, standard errors and confidence intervals |
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Lecture notes: 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. |
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| Unit 5: Presentation of quantitiative data Graphic fundamentals, scatter plots, line plots, bar charts, dot plots, high data:ink ratio graphs |
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Lab 5A: , Lab 5B: , Lab 5A (gg): Lab 5B (gg): Lecture notes: 5.1.
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| Unit 6: Inferential statistics: the T-test Signal-to-noise ratios, single-sample T-test, two-sample t-test, paired T-test, statistical hypothesis testing |
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Lab 6: , Reading: ,Lecture notes: 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. 6.5. 6.6.
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| Unit 7: Analysis of variance One-factor ANOVA, pairwise tests, effect size statistics |
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Lab 7: , Reading: ,Lecture notes: 7.1. 7.2. 7.3. 7.4. 7.5. |
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| Unit 8: Multi-factor ANOVA Two-factor ANOVA, interactions, blocking, covariates, assumptions, transformations, mixed models, BLUPs and BLUEs |
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Lab 8: , Lab 8B: , Lecture notes: 8.1. 8.2. 8.3. |
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| Unit 9: Correlation and regression analysis Pearson correlation, linear regression, non-parametric regression, non-linear regression, bootstrapping |
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Lab 9: , Lab 9B: , Lecture notes: 9.1. 9.2. 9.3.
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| Unit 10: Non-parametric tests permutational ANOVA, rank-sum tests, tests and effect size statistics for binomial data |
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Lab 10: , Lab 10B: , Lecture notes: 10.1. 10.2. 10.3.
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Course project support
If you take this course for credit, these materials will help you with your course project
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| Instructions & guidelines For planning, designing, making, submitting, reviewing and revisiong your course project |
Syllabus: (also available at http://tinyurl.com/rr480/syllabus)Guidelines: (also available at http://tinyurl.com/rr480/guidelines)Review: (also available at http://tinyurl.com/rr480/reviews)Revisions: (also available at http://tinyurl.com/rr480/revisions) |
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| Project support videos & tutorials: Videos and tutorials that may help you with your course project. Those may not be useful for everyone and are not part of the official curriculum |
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Previous course projects & presentations
If you take this course for credit, explore past presentations and past project websites for inspiration
Class of 2024
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Presentation & Website
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| 2024-01 Benjamin Acorn Habitat preferences of the endangered half-moon hairstreak butterfly. |
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| 2024-02 Erika Coelho Veiga Microtopographic variations for improved forest reclamation. |
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| 2024-03 Nicholas Boyce Guiding assisted migration for reforestation in Canada to address climate change: verifying ecozone-based climate matching. |
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| 2024-04 Kiara Kattler Global trends of marine invertebrates: identifying declines in abundance and diversity. |
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| 2024-05 Andres Martinez Mayorga, Jacob Tombs & Tye Stoesz Building back better: Examining the effect of wood bison on vegetative biodiversity and succession in the Ronald Lake herd. |
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| 2024-06 Robin Neuvonen Management of boreal mixedwoods under climate change: How does thinning affect aspen and white spruce resilience to drought? |
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| 2024-07 Lucille Wang Balancing forest thinning density: Enhancing habitat quality and food resources for wildlife in boreal ecosystems. |
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| 2024-08 Meghan Clayton Assessing structural diversity in the NEBIE plot network for boreal woodland caribou habitat suitability. |
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| 2024-09 Kate Stigter Getting to the root of the cause: Variables affecting black spruce and tamarack regrowth on seismic lines. |
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| 2024-10 Camila Camara De Almeida Cardoso Do organic soil amendments reduce greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture? |
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| 2024-11 Fergus McSween The ability of the mixedwood growth model to replicate human precision. |
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| 2024-12 Alexandra Liber Trapping canola's worst pest: Finding the best traps and lures to collect and monitor flea beetles. |
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| 2024-13 Johannes Wiesenberg Clone contrasts: Exploring aspen growth patterns in clonal variants. |
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| 2024-14 Zachariah Zimmerman Creating and validating statistical species distribution maps to inform assisted migration of forest trees. |
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| 2024-15 Wendy Zou Predicting lichen habitat under climate change using deep neural networks: implications for caribou conservation in Alberta, Canada. |
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| 2024-16 Meghan Clayton Assessing structural diversity in the NEBIE plot network for boreal woodland caribou habitat suitability. |
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| 2024-17 Charlotte McWilliams Changing landscapes, changing lives: Bird species richness and diversity in Alberta. |
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| 2024-18 Logan Orfino, Maya Yerichuk & Olivia Salioh The roads most travelled: The impact of road infrastructure and vehicle traffic on global wildlife populations. |
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| 2024-19 Quincy Ybanez Deep insights: Unveiling patterns of trace element: distribution in soil using metal-free lysimeters. |
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| 2024-20 John Maverick De Leon Carbon stability of the archive soil samples in Alberta, Canada. |
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| 2024-21 Zhino Karimi Evaluating the impact of various compost blends on soil health parameters in central Alberta agricultural soils using cash metrics. |
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| 2024-22 Ruiqing Wang Novel strategies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from urban forestry: Biochar applications. |
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| 2024-23 Boran Liu Effects of different fertilizer formulations on nutrition absorption and crop yield. |
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| 2024-24 Tadgh Dalton Emphasizing the importance of fuel type to wildfire perimeter formation: A look at the historic 2023 season. |
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| 2024-25 Samia Anjum Do sulfate amendments reduce the toxic hydrogen sulfide flux from oil sands tailings? |
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| 2024-26 Jacob Landry-Doran Do abiotic factors affect mountain pine beetle infestations in Alberta pine stands? |
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| 2024-27 Nikida Marshall Coming soon! |
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| 2024-28 Santosh Ayer Assessing tree and stand simulator (TASS) predictions of height and diameter responses to thinning in lodgepole pine forests |
Class of 2023
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Presentation & Website
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| 2023-01 Kyle Taylor Do birds care about urban storm pond design? |
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| 2023-02 Jonathan Spence Enhanced Rock Weathering: bolstering crop productivity while capturing carbon from the atmosphere. |
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| 2023-03 Iram Afzal Mitigation of methane emissions from oil sands tailings. |
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| 2023-04 Emelie Dykstra & Madison Pusch How effective are greenhouse gas emission policies in Canada and the world? |
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| 2023-05 Andrew Sperling Does thinning mitigate the expected effects of climate change? |
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| 2023-06 Katie Campbell How are blue-green algae blooms in Alberta impacted by climate change? |
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| 2023-07 Kayla De Jong and Rukesh Shrestha Buzzing with potential: predicting honey bee queen success through genetic background, physical attributes, and behavioral traits. |
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| 2023-08 Chengke Han Higher needle terpenoid concentration found in western white spruce population: possible new considerations for predicting and managing eastern spruce budworm outbreak. |
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| 2023-09 Menglei Duan Characterizing forest structure of transitions between main successional stages. |
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| 2023-10 Sydney Bobey Multi-year plant growth responses to operational glyphosate application in forestry cut blocks across Alberta. |
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| 2023-11 Emily Armfelt Chemical concentrations and aquatic invertebrate abundance: unraveling the urban pond puzzle. |
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| 2023-12 Sydney Harvey Exploring the response of functional trait size of Wolf spiders to edge effects of peatland seismic lines. |
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| 2023-13 Alexa MacDonald Exploring PDO and ENSO influence on climate in the Alberta Rocky Mountains and subsequent impacts on alpine phenology. |
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| 2023-14 Katrina Lingnau and Brendan McCallion Rising temperatures in Alaska: implications for salmon subsistence harvests. |
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| 2023-15 Luis Serrano Diaz Climate-induced evapotranspiration shifts in the north Saskatchewan river basin: a multiregional analysis. |
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| 2023-16 Angelina Kemp, Sienna Vance, and Simone Joosten Feathers in the firestorm: exploring the link between wildfire pollution and citizen science bird data. |
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| 2023-17 Neha Nazar Coarse woody debris characteristics in post fire and post harvest island remnants. |
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| 2023-18 Tingxuan Zhao Comparing organic and conventional agricultural yields: a meta-analysis study. |
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| 2023-19 Andre Truksa Assessing two-flux FAPAR in Costa Rica: is the cheaper, more efficient alternative viable? |
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| 2023-20 Jingwen Sun Improving wheat (Triticum aestivum) production under heat and drought stresses using biostimulant. |
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Class of 2022
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Presentation & Website
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| 2022-01 Cala Jorgensen Casting light on curious crepusculars: the effects of artificial light at night on nighthawks. |
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| 2022-02 Leonard Patterson Are disjunct arctic-alpine shrub and herb populations on the shorelines of Lake Superior threatened by climate change? |
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| 2022-03 Emily Hollik, Natalya Klutz & Maeve Warren How does ocean temperature and tunicate larvae density impact mussel populations in Prince Edward Island, Canada? |
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| 2022-04 Isla Turcke Exploring reef fish distributions in the Florida Keys Reef Tract to inform site selection for coral reef restoration. |
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| 2022-05 Abhijeet Pathy Production of algal oil depends on biomass properties and production conditions. |
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| 2022-06 Leonardo Viliani Can forest harvesting prevent from actively restoring seismic lines? |
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| 2022-07 Georgia Boston, Isabella Orellana & Heather Higgins How is climate change affecting salmon productivity? |
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| 2022-08 Henian Guo Methanogenic biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in oil sand tailing ponds. |
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| 2022-09 Olivia DeBourcier Building ponds to be polluted: the variability of water chemistry in urban ponds. |
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| 2022-10 Tiantian Tao Does climate change really affect forest fires in Canada? |
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| 2022-11 Sarah Namiiro Comparing Africa's regional climate trends. |
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| 2022-12 Evan Grant Looking at Australian freight activity and its relationship to whales. |
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| 2022-13 Emmily MacDonald Phosphogypsum stack reclamation: assessing the vitality and root restrictions of vegetation. |
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| 2022-14 Gaosen Wang Responses of mycorrhizal plant to enhanced non-segregated tailings (ENST)-amended soil. |
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| 2022-15 Cordelius Lasse-Hultberg How does beta diversity of aquatic invertebrates affect abundance of trout? |
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| 2022-16 Angie Tamara Guevara Habitat use of urban wildlife species in on-leash and off-leash parks. |
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| 2022-17 Yuanying Zhai Oat fractionation by milling and air classification. |
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| 2022-18 Benjamin Panes Multi-year tree growth responses to climate moisture index defined drought events in Canada. |
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| 2022-19 Samantha Sech & Emma-Lee Beck Indicators of mycorrhizal association symbioses. |
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| 2022-20 Alexandra Harland Is virtual fencing technology at your fingertips? |
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| 2022-21 Oscar Baron-Ruiz What is driving water availability in a world heritage site: Climate, land cover or both? – A 40-year analysis. |
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| 2022-22 Ateeq Shah Improving drought resistance in lodgepole pine in the face of climate change. |
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| 2022-23 Roya Faramarzi Assessment of soil carbon and nitrogen in different soil layers under soil management practices and properties. |
Class of 2021
| Project Title |
Presentation & Website
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| Mika Little-Devito How do peat extraction activities influence nutrient leaching potential? |
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| Ming Cao How does wildfire affect dissolved organic carbon? |
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| Anabel Dombro Monitoring the dry mixedgrass prairie following applications of indaziflam for invasive annual bromegrass control. |
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| Nicolas Perrault Hydraulic Redistribution of Arsenic by Salix nigra. |
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| Sophia Rubinstein How will climate change affect white spruce productivity in Alberta? |
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| Victoria Colyn, Nicki Berg The influence of northern peatland hydrology on fire severity and management. |
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| Nathan Bourque, Dakota Sullivan, Bianca Unrau Oak Forests and Avian Preference Under Mistletoe. |
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| Ferf Brownoff Does the cooling effect of Lake Superior impact forest structure? |
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| Adam Fast Do enhanced efficiency fertilizers improve Canadian western red spring wheat yield and protein? |
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| Annakah Stadlwieser, Danyal Boehlke, Leah Crandall, Kristen Schafer Coral mortality & settlment: what factors are acting as major stressors for coral? |
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| Jacey Toerper How cold can you go? Ultra – early seeding of CWRS wheat in cold soils. |
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| Megan Sorenson The arthropod weather man: how does climate affect insects? |
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| Lauren Birch, Connor Johnson, Brandon Szeto The Effect of snow and spring melt in oil sands regions on fathead minnow survival. |
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| Bolutito Adedoyin Identifying drought resistant provenances/genotypes. |
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| Lucas Wessner, Matthew Cunningham How changing hydrological cycles are impacting Jasper's black swift populations. |
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| Christine Duke Exploring drivers of avian diversity across disturbance regimes. |
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| Federico Antonioli Effect of mountain pine beetle symbiotic fungi on lodgepole pine tree chemical defenses. |
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| Yexin Han Effects of oil sands tailing water and hypoxic environment on reclamation plants. |
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| Emma Glinny, Megan Lecky, Jessica Livingston Rare plants in the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve. |
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| Joana Canada Cardellach Climate change in Spain: climatic data from 1900 until 2020 for low and high elevation areas. |
Class of 2020
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Jonathan Farr Citizen science for human-coyote coexistence in Edmonton. |
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| Danika Wack Caribou Management: A study on the effectiveness of different Caribou conservation measures. |
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| Ronena Wolach Breeding season habitat selection of ferruginous hawks |
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| Cassandra Jordan, Jenna Hlewka, Taylor Thomeus Effectiveness of wildlife deterrents near roads and railways. |
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| Mariah Casmey Budburst in white spruce. |
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| Emilia Housch, Anthony Moir, Ashley Seib How is wolf predation affected by the presence and type of cutline?. |
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| Kaegan Finn, Rose Murawsky, Aidan Sheppard How do climate change and angling pressure affect the fitness and abundance of walleye in Canada? |
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| Brittany Hynes Understory redevelopment on oil sands reclamation sites. |
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| Zachary Antoniw, Marie-Eve Bedard, Veronique Caron Managing white nose syndrome: an urgent threat to Canadian bats. |
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| Kathryn Levesque Are climate envelopes shifting? |
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| Kailee Goertzen, Zena Leclercq, Rachelle Renaud Quenching the thirst for indigenous rights to clean water. |
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| Emma Kary, Megan Ciocchetto, Christopher Chan, Leah Feng How is Climate Change Altering Alberta's Moisture Regime? |
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| Yinghang Li Vegetation diversity across different land use types. |
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| Tara Androschuk Seed production of spruce trees in British Columbia |
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| Jared Randall, Kim Aasgard, Elyssa Rosadiuk Who’s bleaching my corals? Coral bleaching response to ocean temperatures. |
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| Keyue Gong Greenhouse Gas Emissions: What is the trend and what may be the causations in past 50 years? |
Class of 2018
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Rebecca Baldock Does clear-cut harvesting influence the concentration and aromaticity of dissolved organic carbon within the Old Man River watershed? |
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| Kelly Mulligan Should I stay, or should I go? Shifts in East Kootenay elk migration patterns. |
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| Alex Kaulen Reality vs prediciton: the limits of biomass equation for small diameter trees. |
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| Ashley Hillman Lichen regeneration after forest fire: identifying woodland cariboo foraging habitat. |
Presentation, Website |
| Joe Silva Lichen regeneration after forest fire: identifying woodland cariboo foraging habitat. |
Presentation, Website |
| Graeme Nordell Boreal invasion: migration of non-native plant species under cumulative disturbances. |
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| Jenny Hall Unpaved forestry road erosion in western Canada. |
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| Kira Dlusskaya Which greenhouse gas reduction practices are farmers willing to adopt? |
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| Laura Bony Salt affected soils: quantifying impacts to develop scientifically based remediation criteria for Alberta. |
Presentation, Website |
| Nick Brown Hitting a wall: the effect of amendments on root growth in lean oil sands. |
Presentation, Website |
| Ryan Lalonde Growing woody plants in oil sands tailings |
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| Sophie LeBlanc Early forest development and vegetation colonization: the role of microtopography in reclamation sites. |
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| Sunit Bhanot How less visible aspects of hydrological processes affect us. |
Presentation, Website |
| Vinicius Goncalves Tree growth in response to climate variables in Argentina? |
Class of 2017
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Emily Cicon Can grizzly bears act as a surrogate species for songbirds? |
Presentation, Website |
| Gulshat Cherniyazova Possible change to snow cover areas of Kazakhstan. |
Presentation, Website |
| Hajo Spaethe Interpretive and preventive timber conservation treatments at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, Alberta. |
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| Jillian Cameron Does variation in lunar illumination alter anuran acoustic detectability? |
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| Jinhan Xie How does fire suppression efforts influence our forests? |
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| Kate Bezooyen Are FireSmart treatments really so smart?. |
Presentation, Website |
| Laura Garland Where the deer and the predators roam: an investigation of predator-prey temporal spacing in Alberta's northeastern boreal forests. |
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| Lauren Sinclair Do white spruce seedlings show physiological adaptations to drought? |
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| Logan Purdy Optimizing remotely sensed land surface phenology with leafing and flowering records from a citizen science observation network. |
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| Nadele Flynn Can we identify areas of Yukon’s arctic that are vulnerable to climate change? |
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| Raiany Silva Crossings disturbed by OHV use in wet and riparian areas: planting cuttings as a restoration method. |
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| Sara Venskaitis South Bison Hills Reclamation: Does Depth of Topsoil Affect Forest Reclamation Success? |
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| Ugbaad Kosar To plant or not to plant: guiding reforestation strategies of lodgepole pine in Europe. |
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| Zihaohan Sang Does the origin of seeds affect white spruce growth in response to climate? |
Class of 2016
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Adam Mathison Hitchhiker Planting: evaluation of mixed-species container stock in field conditions. |
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| Adewumi Adeyefa Growth and development of mixedwood stands of aspen and spruce. |
Presentation, Website |
| Ashley Hart The role of aspen root systems in water redistribution . |
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| Caitlin Willier A road runs through it: changes in plant community composition in forested wetlands. |
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| Caroline Martin Breeding bird responses to linear disturbance features in the grasslands of southeastern Alberta. |
Presentation, Website |
| Fuai Wang Effects of different types and concentrations of monoterpenes on mountain pine beetle symbiotic fungi. |
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| Jackson Beck Is constitutive chemical defense important for Lodgepole pine survival? |
Presentation, Website |
| Jennifer Li Provenance Testing in Europe: height models and comparison to predicted growth trends. |
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| Jill Sekely Protection needs analysis for native tree populations of Alberta. |
Presentation, Website |
| Jorge Grock Are biopolymers more efficient than synthetic polymers for consolidation and dewatering of oil sand tailings? |
Presentation, Website |
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Katie Burd Wildfire and permafrost thaw effects on aquatic carbon cycling. |
Presentation, Website |
| Kensy Balch Do environmental policies actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions over time? |
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| Michelle Knaggs Birds in burns and bogs: How does fire severity influence bird assemblages in the boreal forest? |
Presentation, Website |
| Shauna Stack The Effects of subsoil, coversoil and planting density techniques on the establishment of planted vegetation. |
Presentation, Website |
| Trevor De Zeeuw Implication of microtopography on seedling growth at reclamation sites. |
Class of 2015
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Altaf Hussain Poor growing conditions and vulnerability of jack pine to mountain pine beetle attacks. |
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| Chengtao Yan N2O emission from agriculture: does no-tillage matter? |
Presentation, Website |
| Ellen Whitman
Burn severity and stand age in the western boreal forest. |
Presentation, Website |
| Emmi Lehtinen Natural regeneration of white spruce (Picea glauca) in Peace River. |
Presentation, Website |
| Hangfei Ge Natural regeneration in a degraded peatland: implications for forest restoration |
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| Kevin Hawkshaw Does timing of reproduction and seasonal prey abundance affect nestling survival in arctic Peregrine Falcons? |
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| Liam Hefferman How does above-ground functional diversity affect below-ground functional diversity? |
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| Matt Robinson Does Timber Retention Influence Terrestrial Habitat Use by Wood Frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus)? |
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| Sanat Kanekar Snaring beetles: stopping them in their tracks. |
Presentation, Website |
| Sarah McPike Attempts to enhance the success of a native parasitoid to control ash leaf-cone roller. |
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Sebastian Dietrich Improving capping materials for upland oil sands mine reclamation. |
Presentation, Website |
| Shiyang Zhao Natural lodgepole pine residuals after mountain pine beetle outbreaks in Alberta . |
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| Waqas Noor Does climate change influences the vulnerability of aspen? |
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| Zac Macdonald Using lake islands as natural models to measure the utilization of habitat fragments by butterflies. |
Presentation, Website |
Class of 2013
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Alam Zeb Quantitative analysis and ranking the causes of deforestation in Pakistan. |
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| Alicia Kelly When are cariboo at most risk of death? |
Presentation, Website |
| Amanda St Onge
Invasion of the pea leaf weevil. |
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| Andrew Braid Don't feed the bears? |
Presentation, Website |
| Asha Wijerathna TBD |
Presentation, Website |
| Brittany Wingert TBD |
Presentation, Website |
| Bryan Maitland The culvert crisis. |
Presentation, Website |
| Erik Hedlin The effects of food supplementation on nestling growth and survival in arctic breeding peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus tundrius). |
Presentation, Website |
| Erin Maruca Protected area status of western North American forest trees and their exposure to climate change. |
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| Evren Hisarli TBD |
Presentation, Website |
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François-Nicolas Robinne How mesoscal burn probability mapping is affected by landscape fragmentation. |
Presentation, Website |
| Hosen Alam Above-ground carbon stock in Guyana’s mangrove forest. |
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| Ivan Bjelanovic How much aspen density to prevent weevil attack to white spruce. |
Presentation, Website |
| Jana Bockstette Reforestation of poor mine spoils. |
Presentation, Website |
| Jennine Pedersen Climate change vulnerabilities and the success of assisted migrations to northern climates. |
Presentation, Website |
| Kyle Kipps Agriculture on gray luvisol soil, can it continue under climate change? |
Presentation, Website |
| Leah Girhiny TBD |
Presentation, Website |
| Lynn Gowman Large-scale climatic patterns and area burned by wildfire in Canada. |
Presentation, Website |
| Maria Herva Development of Finnish paper and pulp industry in years 1995-2008 and the accuracy of Verdoorn’s law. |
Presentation, Website |
| Michelle Speta Hyperspectral imaging for the estimation of bitumen content in oil sands core. |
Presentation, Website |
| Oleg Melnik Heat content and combustion of live fuels. |
Presentation, Website |
| Quinn Barber The velocity of climate change. |
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| Sarah Booth Documenting the media’s coverage of climate change in the Americas. |
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| Shuai Ding Does good malting barley make good feed barley for ruminants? |
Presentation, Website |
| Spencer Taft Geographic variation in jack pine (Pinus banksiana) chemistry and its effect on mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) pheromone production and aggregation. |
Presentation, Website |
| Weijuan Huang Is increased plasma n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid associated with improved insulin sensitivity in type-2 diabetes? |
Presentation, Website |
| Will Barnes What drives productivity in coarse textured soils of the Athabasca oil sands region? |
Presentation, Website |
| William Lebans Does relocation of Alberta's grizzly bears work? |
Presentation, Website |
Class of 2012
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Rodrigo Campos Pine cones: keeping seeds from roasting. |
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| Charlie McLellan Can prescribed fire rescue Banff’s declining grizzly bear population? |
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| Carrie Nugent
Can LIDAR help us help grizzly bears? Using LIDAR to measure open-route densities in core and secondary Range. |
Presentation, Website |
| Sonya Odsen Boreal bird recovery from variable retention harvest. |
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| Katrina Adams What drives the distribution of an invasive algae species in the Yukon? |
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| Michelle Fraser Evaluating the performance of MCF fungicide in the control of blackleg (Leptosphaeria maculans) in canola |
Presentation, Website |
| Ronald Nyandoro Mitigation of sudden death syndrome (Fusarium sp.) of soybeans (Glycine max) in southern Alberta through fungicides and varietal resistance strategies. |
Presentation, Website |
| Mark Howell Substrate suitability for reclamation in the Athabasca oil sands region. |
Presentation, Website |
| Cassidy van Rensen An expanding grid of linear disturbance: key factors for restoring seismic lines. |
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| Guangyu Liu Targeted cisplatin delivery for non-small cell lung cancer treatment. |
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Guncha Ishankulieva Does the host tree species, lodgepole pine and jack pine, influence the attraction of mountain pine beetle? |
Presentation, Website |
| Devon Barnes Sprinkler efficacy trials: water distribution and fuel moisture absorption capacity. |
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| Jamal Taghavimehr Does tillage reversal decrease CO2 emissions from the soil? |
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| Jesse Watson Home range size and productivity of breeding ferruginous hawks. |
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| Nicola Bakker Fire, Retention and Regeneration (... and blackflies). |
Presentation, Website |
| Miriam Isaac-Renton Where should Europe get its Douglas-fir seeds from? |
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| Jeannine Goehing Hybrid poplar responses to alternative establishment systems. |
Presentation, Website |
| Kate Melnik Can slope exposure and coarse woody debris placement assist in understory seedling establishment and increase variability in plant communities on reclaimed sites? |
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| Tracy Amanda Introduction to agroforestry and tree-based intercropping. |
Presentation, Website |
| Katharina Liepe How frost hardy will populations of lodgepole pine and interior spruce be under a changing climate? |
Presentation, Website |
Class of 2010
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Courtney Felton
Can pedometers detect estrus is tie-stall dairy cows? |
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| Said Darras Improving field-pea production using genotypic mixtures. |
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| Kirk Johnson
Encouraging tree intimacy: an alternative method to regenerate boreal mixedwoods. |
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| Sean Coogan
Getting to the root of the matter: grizzly bears and alpine sweetvetch. |
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| Arezoo Amini
How do soil depth and plant community affect Festuca growth in rebuilt native grassland? |
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| Yun Qi Sun Could wheat DDGS be a substitute of barley grain for early lactation cows? |
Presentation, Website |
| Nicholas Arkell Bio-densification of oil sand tailings. |
Presentation, Website |
| Kelly Kneteman Plant-assisted remediation of nitrogen fertilizer contaminated soil and groundwater at an industrial plant site. |
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| Yannick Neveux Exploring management strategies for woodland caribou in the Yukon in the face of increasing development pressures and climate change. |
Presentation, Website |
| Jillian Martin How good are we at recreating soil processes: a comparison of wildfire to land reclamation. |
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Hyejin Hwang Study on the relationship between leaf weight and crown conditions for loblolly pine (Pinus teada) in Ft. Benning in Georgia, US. |
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| Janet Ariss The mountain pine beetle: allies and enemies. |
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| Andre Christensen Reclamation of phosphogypsum stacks: the influence of soil capping depth and plant species on moisture dynamics. |
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| Owen Watkins Viability of Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) in the North Saskatchewan River, Alberta. |
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| Jarred Looft How many ugly ducklings are there? |
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Class of 2009
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| Najar Ahmed Do Symbiotic Alders Grow Better than Non Symbiotic ones even in Harsh Conditions? |
Presentation, Website |
| Amy Gainer Does irrigating willow with wastewater increase soil salinity? |
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| Aria Hahn Life After Oil: Microbial Communities in the Athabasca Oil-sands |
Presentation, Website |
| Candace Serben Did adaptive growth change tree sway patterns 10 years after thinning? |
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| Chen (Klaus) Ding Aspen budset phenology inferred from provenance trials and climate data |
Presentation, Website |
| Christina Williams Nitrogen Fixation in Cool Season Pulse Crops - Moving the Prairies Toward a More Sustainable Agricultural System |
Presentation, Website |
| Cory Kartz Does Entering a VBNC State Affect the Transport of E.coli O157:H7 in Soil and Groundwater? |
Presentation, Website |
| Xu Feng Leaf movement of black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) alleviate stress under different light and water conditions |
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| Fran Ferster Do transgenic tobacco plants inoculated with P. indica have increased biomass and hydraulic conductance under drought conditions? |
Presentation, Website |
| Gabriela Luna-Wolter Does woody debris affect soil properties and vegetation in oil sands areas? |
Presentation, Website |
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Ghulam Murtaza Can protective clothing minimize the risk of burn injury in humans exposed to fire? |
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Hailong He How to protect the black soil from water erosion in Northeast China? |
Presentation, Website |
| Jianfeng Liu Evaluate yield losses of commercial pea cultivars due to downy mildew of pea (Peronospora viciae f. sp. pisi) |
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| Marija Chechina What Triggers Mass Flowering of Dipterocarp Forests in Southeast Asia? |
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| Mohammad Mezbahuddin Does scarcity of assets affect individual migration decisions? |
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| Nnenna Onwuchekwa The potential of ectomycorrhizal fungi in restoration of disturbed lands |
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| Quiang Xiao Do bait crops reduce the clubroot symptom severity of canola? |
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| Kapilan Ranganathan What is an efficient inhibitor of fermentation of Palmyrah sap? |
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| Manjila Rahman Shahid The influence of fabric thickness and mass on moisture absorbency |
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| Tyrel Hemsley Is athmospheric nitrogen deposition occuring in the Athabasca oil sands region on reclaimed landscapes? |
Presentation, Website |
| Wenquing Zhang Identification and Classification of Prickly Ash |
Class of 2008
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Brittany Does Increased Inclusion of Dietary Starch Improve Reproductive Performance in Post Partum Dairy Cows? |
Presentation, Website |
| Candace Nemirsky What is the impact of distance to pipeline construction on tiny cryptanthe (Cryptantha minima) and slender mouse ear cress (Halimolobos virgata) habitat? |
Presentation, Website |
| Claudia Lopez Animal Response to landscape disturbance and the implication of animal displacement |
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| Derek Rennie Significance of Plasmodiophora brassicae infestation in seedlots |
Presentation, Website |
| Devin Goodsman Does fertilization or thinning influence lodgepole pine’s ability to defend itself against Grosmannia clavigera? |
Presentation, Website |
| Evan Wildfire and salvage logging change benthic macroinvertebrate communities and food webs in oligotrophic headwater streams |
Presentation, Website |
| Haitao Li Aspen’s Budburst Inferred from Climate Data |
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| Janet Scott Can we see signs of water quality improvement when we keep cattle away from a stream? |
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| Kim Ives Is Education Having an Effect on University Student’s Attitudes? |
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| Kyle Lochhead How do Commercial Trees Grow Under Different Retention Rx’s? |
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Lance Steinke Enhancing Best Management Practices with Measures of Restoration Success in Jasper National Park, Alberta |
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Laura MacPherson Do Road/Stream Crossing Structures Fragment Stream Fish Populations? |
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| Marie-Claude Roy What Factors Influence Created and Natural Wetlands Vegetation Biomass and Species Diversity? |
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| Paul Clyburn Assessing the effectiveness of Acetic Acid and Lactic Acids as chemical washes to prevent bacterial contamination during food processing |
Presentation, Website |
| Seung-Il Lee Influence of patch size and decay class on saproxylic beetles |
Presentation, Website |
| Shari Clare Unintended outcomes? The impact of public policy on wetlands and biodiversity in Alberta |
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| Sithara Selecting an Appropriate Hybrid Poplar Clone: A Guide to the Future of Forestry |
Presentation, Website |
| Stefan Schreiber Hybrid poplars under stress: how does drought impact growth performance? |
Presentation, Website |