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REN R 690 - Multivariate Statistics and Machine Learning for the Environmental Sciences
Permanent link: http://tinyurl.com/mv690
Course instructor: Dr. Andreas Hamann, GSB 733, 492-6429, andreas.hamann@ualberta.ca.
Location & Time: Winter Terms, GSB 866, Wednesdays 9am to 12pm, extra labs & meetings TBA.
Online version: This course is the online equivalent of course REN R 960, 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. Covers methods for visualization, analysis and prediction for complex biological or environmental data. Includes classical and modern approaches to ordination and classification, analysis of multivariate relationships, and the application of deep neural networks and other machine learning tools for prediction. Participants engage in problem-based learning by analyzing data from their thesis research project.
Registered students: If you take REN R 690 for credit, then log into the University of Alberta eClass section for this course instead: http://tinyurl.com/mv690/eclass
On-line self-study material
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| Course introduction Introduction, target audience, course objectives |
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| Unit 1: Introduction to R and R Studio |
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Lab 1: Sheet: |
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| Unit 2. Rotation fundamentals: Rotation of datasets with matrix algebra, principal component analysis (PCA) |
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Lab 2: 2.1.  2.2. |
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| Unit 3. Complexity reduction, graphics: Factor analysis, multivariate graphics in R. |
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Lab 2B: ,  Lab 3A: , Lab 3B: , Lab 3C: , |
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| Unit 4. Predetermined groups: Linear discriminant analysis (LDA), Canonical discriminant analysis (CANDISC), Mutlivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) |
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Lab 4: 4.1. 4.2. |
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| Unit 5. Distance fundamentals:
Introduction to distance-based techniques, distance-based ordination (NMDS, PCoA, PO), agglomerative and divisive clustering (e.g., Ward, k-means) |
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Lab 5: 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. |
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| Unit 6. Inferential statistics: Multivariate response permutation procedure (MRPP), distance-based permmutational multivariate analysis of variance (perMANOVA) |
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Lab 6: 6.1. 6.2. |
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| Unit 7. Direct/indirect gradient analysis:
Second set of vectors on ordinations (e.g., on PCA, NMDS, PCoA), Canonical correlation analysis (CANCOR), Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) |
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Lab 7: 7.1. |
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| Unit 8. Prediction, machine learning: Classification and Regression Trees (CART), Multivariate Regression Trees (MRT), RandomForest (RF) |
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Lab 8: 8.1. |
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| Unit 9. Deep Neural Networks: Fundamentals and applications of deep neural networks (DNN) in the environmental sciences |
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Lab 9: 9.1. |
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/mv690/syllabus)Guidelines: (also available at http://tinyurl.com/mv690/guidelines)Review: (also available at http://tinyurl.com/mv690/reviews)Revisions: (also available at http://tinyurl.com/mv690/revisions)Seminars: (also available at http://tinyurl.com/mv690/seminars) |
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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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Student-led seminars
An archive of useful additional methods worked out by course participants
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| Distance-based redundancy analysis | |
| Mariah Casmey: Variance partitioning and commonality analysis. | |
| Zihaohan Sang: Heat maps |
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| Anabel Dombro: Indicator species analysis | |
| Sarah Namiiro: Terra GIS in R - An Introduction |
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| Benjamin Panes: Terra GIS in R - Advanced examples | |
| Brittany Hynes & Mika Little-Devito: InkScape tutorial | |
| Dante Castellanos-Acuna: QGIS tutorial | |
| Kasia Staniszewska: Image processing with ImageJ |
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| Benoit Gendreau-Berthiaume: Spatial analysis with PCNM | |
| Vinicius Manvailer:
Dendroclimatic response function analysis |
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| Yuanyuan Xia and Amir Mahdi Latifi: Interpolation with kriging |
Previous course projects & presentations
If you take this course for credit, explore past presentations and past project websites for inspiration
Class of 2024
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Gabrielle Hatten Land-water connectivity drives northern lake chemistry |
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| Jonathan Tales Can forest remnants moderate microclimate? Implications for forest management and climate change adaptation |
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| Colleen Dawson Catchment to crustacean: How changes to alpine landscapes are shifting freshwater plankton communities |
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| Kasha Kempton Trophic gradient drives methane emissions: Implications for greenhouse gas modelling in northern |
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| Fares Mandour What impact does seasonality have on mercury export in northern streams? |
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| Tianqi Zhao Preparing Cities for Climate Change: Develop and validate climate change vulnerability index - A pilot study in Edmonton |
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| Genevieve Dorrell Modeling ecosystem migration across North America in the era of climate change |
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| Renz Layugan The highly dynamic cyanobacterial blooms across space and time: Implications on its management in central Alberta |
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| Chengke Han Different influential factors of needle terpene defense are found in long and short distance assisted migration white spruces: the decisions of assisted migration to be considered according to different criteria |
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| Sydney Bobey Plant community response to operational glyphosate application |
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| Andre Truksa Assessing reliability of lidar SLAM data in Costa Rica |
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| Xinran Hu Geospatial lodgepole pine site index modelling from climate parameters in Alberta |
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| Menglei Duan Classify liana-infested canopies using UAV-based Remote Sensing techniques |
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| Hongzhi Zhang Transcriptome responses of different insects to unfavorable environmental conditions: What makes diapause so special? |
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| Riley Zheng Evaluation of success of vegetation restoration on solar farm: make green energy more greener |
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| Zhenting Liu Exploring the relationship between climate variable with severity of fire in Alberta |
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| Leah Crandall The role of fungal and host stress volatiles in the attraction of low-density mountain pine beetle populations |
Class of 2023
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Julia Briand The future of coral reef functions: predicting effective restoration at a global scale. |
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| Benjamin Panes Tree resilience to drought events. |
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| Caitlin Hall Ecological community structure within a nearshore trawling exclusion zone. |
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| Sarah Namiiro Prediction of future climate: performance of 23 general circulation models in Africa. |
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| Jessica Lagroix Do beaver ponds increase toxic mercury in northern waters? |
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| Kate Rutherford Urban biodiversity: Using camera traps to measure mammal diversity in a northern city. |
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| Hailey Cole Vegetation recovery on well pads: does time heal all wounds? |
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| Oscar Javier Baron Ruiz Hotspots of biodiversity in Edmonton. |
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| Anna Jacobsen High-elevation bird response to shrub dominance. |
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| Sejer Meyhoff Are domestic cattle exposing naïve bird species to nest parasitism by brown-headed cowbirds? |
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| Haolin Wei Variation of foliar defensive compounds (terpene) and fungal endophytes abundance among different locations in mature white spruce trees. |
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| Milene Wiebe Crabby controls or happy trapping: optimizing the trapping of European Green crabs (Carcinus maenas). |
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| Tianhan Chen High-latitude lake algae and climate: trophic interactions under climate change. |
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| Paulo Dias Estimation groups using clustering. |
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| Harshil Kansara Edmonton property assessment: how will the prices fluctuate in coming years? |
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| Ian Gazeley Predicting mineral lick locations from animal movement data. |
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| Angie Tamara Guevara Water quality trends and drivers in the North Saskatchewan River watershed. |
Class of 2022
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Mika Little-Devito Peat extraction activities: are nutrients leached off site? |
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| Rachel Pizante The effects of field margin vegetation and canola bloom on hover flies communities |
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| Marcel Schneider Vascular plant species responses to island remnants |
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| Renae Shewan Tracing landscape sources of mercury in permafrost peatland catchments. |
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| Brittany Hynes Evaluating outplanting success of nursery-grown shrub seedlings on boreal reclamation sites |
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| Nora Alsafi How is permafrost thaw changing winter carbon dynamics in subarctic streams? |
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| Elena Schaefer Teamwork makes the dreamwork: how do mycorrhizal fungi influence carbon flow from tree roots to soils? |
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| Bolutito Adedoyin Assisted migration of genotypes to maintain forest health under climate change |
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| Brandon Hill Industry adjacent rivers: a look at contaminant mobilization and transport in northeastern Alberta |
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| Rosanise Odell Tree mortality in forest remnants. |
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| Lance Moore Coarse woody debris dynamics in forest remnants |
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| Rashaduz Zaman Fungal symbionts of mountain pine beetles differentially alter host tree defense metabolites depending on the fungal species and isolates |
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| Jillian Lightbown Can microorganisms be used as bioindicators of water quality? |
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| Connor Bax Full-Waveform LiDAR as a predictor of secondary forest structure |
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| Ronny Hernandez Mora Assesing uncertainties related to satellite remote sensing indices to estimate gross primary production |
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| Ana Bermudez Does climate deviation can predict if restoration of terrestrial ecosystems will be successful? |
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| Yanzhuo Liu Effect of combined drought and bark beetle attacks to non-structural carbohydrates of pine tree organs |
Class of 2021
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Hayley Drapeau Glacial influence on freshwater carbon cycling in the Canadian Rockies. |
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| Patrick White Are glaciers influencing phytoplankton community composition in the Canadian arctic? |
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| Mariah Casmey What drives spring phenology in different species? |
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| Kasia Staniszewska The utility of sondes as proxies for water chemistry across the Alberta oil sands region rivers. |
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| Anabel Dombro How does plant community composition respond to season and duration of access mats used to mitigate the effects of construction traffic on the Dry Mixed Grass Prairie? |
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| Erin Daly Rethinking Modern Agriculture: Can novel perennial grain cropping systems mitigate agricultural N2O emissions? |
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| Amir Mahdi Latifi Does collocated cokriging improve the quality of spatial estimation? |
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| Arianne Forbes Spatial pattern analysis of wildfire exposed areas surrounding forested communities in Alberta. |
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| Gigi Baker The missing link between anatomical and chemical defences of lodgepole pine. |
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| Kiah Leicht Can environmentally smart nitrogen fertilizer increase crop yields in southern Alberta? |
Presentation, Website |
| Rebecca Frei How does peatland disturbance affect water quality? |
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| Xinyi Duan Selective enhancement of beneficial soil microbes improve plant health. |
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| Yinlong Huang Where did the snow go? |
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| Yuanyuan Xia Geochemistry of the Mackenzie Mountains of the North West Territories |
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| Zachary Davis The North is changing: How can we best protect biodiversity, if the nature of what we are protecting is unclear? |
Class of 2019
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Joseph Cooper What influences tree distribution in a unique old-growth forest? |
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| Patrick Williams Geochemical characterization of glacial meltwater runoff from the Greenland ice sheet to the ocean |
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| Ashley Hynes Which climatic variables limit growth of white spruce and lodgepole pine across North America? |
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| Kyle Stratechuk Stockpiling impacts on topsoil physical properties |
Presentation, Website |
| Sebastian Theis Food-dependednt development of behavioural responses in least killifish (Heterandria formosa) |
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| Christopher Schulze How do permafrost thaw and resulting thermokarst development influence soil respiration from a subarctic peatland complex? |
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| Cole Gross Can applying organic additives or planting trees improve soil quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural activities? |
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| Jared Fath Road effects in the Simonette watershed, west-central Alberta |
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| Jennifer Buss Reclamation soil stockpiles: Are these the plant communities we are looking for? |
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| Jonathan Tieu Hidden in plain sight: predicting biomass in Albertan agroforesty |
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| Julia Orlova From source to tap: How landscapes control drinking water treatability |
Presentation, Website |
| Kaitlyn Trepanier Vegetation community dynamics on soil islands in oil sands reclamation |
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| Megan Lewis How are biocrust lichens affected by grazing and drought in Alberta’s grasslands? |
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| Natasha Klappstein Circumpolar sea ice drift from a polar bear perspective |
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| Sophie Aasberg The role of microtopography in vegetation communities in forest restoration sites |
Presentation, Website |
| Sydney Worthy Does the presence of introduced European honeybees (Apis mellifera) alter native pollinator composition? |
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| Upama KC Do AMP grazing promotes soil microbial communities in Grassland ecosystem? |
Presentation, Website |
| Vinicius Goncalves Limits of tree growth in South Amercia |
Class of 2018
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Ali Nezamabad Glacier change by remote sensing |
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| Anna Bishop Freshwater carbon dynamics in the coastal temperate rainforest |
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| Caitlyn Donadt Are mercury levels in sport fish from the Red Deer River determined by environmental factors? |
Presentation, Website |
| Cassio Ishii Protection against flooding: riparian areas |
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| Daniela Gomez Depression and cognitive deficits in HIV |
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| Eden McPeak Are the trees improved, or is it their environment? |
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| Emily Cicon Can grizzly bears act as a surrogate species for songbirds? |
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| Evan Fellrath Fungi to the rescue: Can poor seedling performance in beetle-killed pine stands be improved with tailored soil inoculum? |
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| Jessica Grenke 'AMP-ing' up diversity: High intensity grazing impacts on plant diversity and species assemblage |
Presentation, Website |
| Jessica Hudson The effect of green alder (Alnus viridis) and fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium) hitchhiker seedlings on the community composition during initial seedling establishment |
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| Melanie de Kappelle Reaching new heights: Are the chemical signatures of lodgepole pine trees occurring in higher latitudes different than those of conspecifics in lower systems? |
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| Morganne Wall Looking at the causes of dispersal in a migratory protected owl |
Presentation, Website |
| Nadele Flynn Are we there yet? Temporal and spatial scale of climate change refugia - a Yukon case study |
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| Sisi Lin Can the Manure Injection Timings and Nitrification Inhibitors reduce Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Emissions? |
Presentation, Website |
| Stephanie Jean How are our forests regenerating after the Fort McMurray fire? |
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| Zihaohan Sang Modeling the distribution of white spruce (Picea glauca) |
Class of 2017
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Alexander Mertens Controls on lake chemistry across the western boreal forest |
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| Andrew Forgie Phytochemicals found in pea seed coats alter microbial community structure and improve intestinal integrity |
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| Benjamin Bourrie Traditional and commercial kefir differ in their ability to impact a mouse model of diet induced obesity |
Presentation, Website |
| Branco Hilje How does forest structural heterogeneity affect the acoustic community in successional tropical dry forests? |
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| Caroline Martin Breeding songbird community responses to powerline construction in the grasslands of southeastern Alberta |
Presentation, Website |
| Deanna Pepin Microbial modifying properties of iodinated water in animal production |
Presentation, Website |
| Fuai Wang Will the fungal associate of pine engraver be the terminator for mountain pine beetles? |
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| Jackson Beck The role of soil fungi in the regeneration of disturbed forest stands |
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| Jean Rodriguez Short-term changes in ground cover and understory composition following disturbance events |
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| Julie Steinke Is understory vegetation resistant to mountain pine beetle attacks in lodgepole pine forests in western Alberta? |
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| Karling Roberts Characterizing the fish communities of natural and compensation lakes |
Presentation, Website |
| McKenzie Kuhn What influences carbon concentrations in polar ponds? |
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| Michael Terry River ecology vs man: a battle on the North Saskatchewan |
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| Michelle Knaggs Birds in burns and bogs: How does fire severity influence bird assemblages in the boreal forest? |
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| Natalie Sanchez Beak morphology predicts vocal features in songbirds: understanding bird sensitivity to chronic industrial noise |
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| Natalie Scott Impact of Disturbance on Ectomycorrhizal Fungi Recovery in a Boreal Forest Ecosystem |
Presentation, Website |
| Sarah Tacker Looking below: climate change and microbial communities in the rhizosphere of boreal forest soils |
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| Sydne Guevara Effect of soil nutrients in mountain pine beetle success |
Class of 2015
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Ashton Sturm Cleptoparasites as indicator species for native bee community assemblages |
Presentation, Website |
| Caren Jones Development and migration of understory vegetation communities in upland boreal forest reclamation |
Presentation, Website |
| Cass Docherty Invasion of Prussian Carp (Carassius gibelio) in Western North America |
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| Dante Castellanos How is climate change going to affect the ecoregions of Mexico and South America? |
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| Elizabeth Hoffman Temporal and spatial development of vegetation community patterns on reclaimed mine sites using salvaged forest floor material |
Presentation, Website |
| Erik Hedlin Weather, Food, and the Survival of Peregrine Falcon Nestlings in the Canadian Arctic |
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| Felipe Alencastro Phenological Analysis of Tropical Dry Forests in Costa Rica |
Presentation, Website |
| Jaime Sebastian How does climate influence intraspecific differences in White spruce? |
Presentation, Website |
| Jing Chen How does the tropical forest change? |
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| Kenton Neufeld Habitat Associations of Milk River Fishes |
Presentation, Website |
| Kim Morrison Predicting Spring Human Caused Fires in Alberta |
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| Kyle Hamilton Is #AlbertaRiverHydrology Trending? |
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| Laureen Echiverri Can we predict understory vegetation using moisture indices and forest structure? |
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| Laurie Frerichs Assessing Successional Development on 10-year-old Reclaimed Boreal Wellsites |
Presentation, Website |
| Marie Veillard Do Rocky Mountain Sculpin from four rivers select different habitat? |
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| Monica Kohler Which species drive differences in wild bee communities across Alberta’s agricultural regions? |
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| Sanat Kanekar Defense by thousand cuts: effects of Grosmannia clavigera density on monotherpene profile of lodgepole and jack pine |
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| Scott Zolkos Permafrost thaw: carbon source or sink? |
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| Shiang Zhao Hiding interaction between plants and mycorrhize under stressful conditions |
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| Simon Bockstette Out of sight, but not out of mind - Roots in reconstructed soils |
Presentation, Website |
| Yaqian Long Hyperspectral Band Selection Based On Random Forest |
Class of 2014
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Ben Collins Patterns of Morphology in Hiscobeccus capax |
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| Andrea Morehouse Carnivores and communities: can landscape variables predict conflict frequency? |
Presentation, Website |
| Patrick Donovan Will cokriging produce better estimation of mean bitumen saturation |
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| Quinn Barber The velocity of climate change |
Presentation, Website |
| Bryan Maitland Stream crossing impacts on freshwater fish and habitat in west-central Alberta: implications for management |
Presentation, Website |
| Jianan Qu Modelling geochemical distribution using principal component and geostatistical analysis: a case study from the middle part of China |
Presentation, Website |
| Matthew Gelderman Can drivers of whitebark pine regeneration inform restoration planning for the species? |
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| 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 |
| Aaron Bell Does wildfire influence the diversity of carabid beetles on lake islands? |
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| Guncha Ishankulieva Does mountain pine beetle select its host from nutrition point of view? |
Presentation, Website |
| Cole Mooney Improving estimate accuracy with the use of legacy Data |
Presentation, Website |
| Eric Daniels Improving gold recovery estimates with spectral geology |
Presentation, Website |
| Logan McLeod Rare, or poorly sampled? Monitoring yellow tail in Alberta |
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| Kayla Stan Predicting urban expansion and ecosystem loss in southern Alberta |
Presentation, Website |
| Mehdi Rezvandehy Optimum geostatistical modeling for a complicated and thin oil reservoir (Burgan) |
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| Dominica Harrison Tropical dry forest plant species classification with thermal infrared spectroscopy |
Presentation, Website |
| Felipe Pinto Explaining the uncertainty by different spatial parameters for a mineral deposit |
Presentation, Website |
| Jeannine Göhing What does it take to increase hybrid poplar plantation profitability? |
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| Chenyu Jiang Multiple point statistics study on resolution porphyry deposit |
Presentation, Website |
| Maria Herva Finding suitable environments for lodgepole pine in Europe |
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| Shanon Hankin Ectomycorrhizal communtiy recovery in upland boreal forest restoration |
Class of 2013
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Cassidy Rankine How might tropical dry forests respond to a changing climate? |
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| Crisia Tabacaru Fire and mountain pine beetles |
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| Darrin Molinaro Going the distance: the influence of morphological variation on species duration |
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| David Henkel-Johnson Assessment of poplar yield losses due to weedy competition |
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| Donnette Thayer Movement dynamics of lake sturgeon in the South Saskatchewan river |
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| Fuyong Li Genetic parameters for milk production traits in Dutch dairy cattle |
Presentation, Website |
| Hiroshi Kubota Does organic agriculture affect soil microbial community composition? |
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| Jared Amos Does retention harvesting affect pollinator abundance? |
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| Jared Deutsch Uncertainty in the heavy metal underground of Jura, Switzerland |
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| Jennifer Klutsch Limber pine regeneration dynamics at the leading edge of white pine blister rust |
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| Katharina Liepe Growth versus cold hardiness: spatial patterns of phenotypic variation in interior spruce and lodgepole pine |
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| Lori Schroeder Rare Species in Relict Grasslands: does bison grazing decrease Yukon grassland diversity? |
Presentation, Website |
| Lysandra Pyle Do divergent management practices effect germinable seed bank composition and legume abundance? |
Presentation, Website |
| Mark Lyseng Prolonged Ungulate Grazing: will native plant communities return with the exclusion of ungulates? |
Presentation, Website |
| Miriam Isaac-Renton Where should Europe source its Douglas-fir seeds? |
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| Paul Cigan Influence of mountain pine beetle outbreak on litter & soil nutrient status in western Alberta, Canada |
Presentation, Website |
| Sonya Odsen Medium-term responses of boreal birds to variable retention harvest |
Class of 2011
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| James Glasier Welcome to ants of the sand |
Presentation, Website |
| Ashley Wick A lesson in how to read an insect's mind |
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| Sean Coogan Distribution of grizzly bear plant foods in west-central Alberta in response to climate change |
Presentation, Website |
| Babar Javed Arsenic - The worst mass Poisoning: a deadly puzzle |
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| Janet Ariss Mountain pine beetle: journey to the east? |
Presentation, Website |
| Hailong He Locating the soil horizon interface: an alternative to field survey |
Presentation, Website |
| Krista Fink Do lizards really prefer rocks, soft soils and warm spots? |
Presentation, Website |
| Heather Archibald Early ecosystem genesis using LFH and peat amendments in the Athabasca oil sands |
Presentation, Website |
| Heather Mosher Through the eyes of a tree: monitoring the environmental effects of the Athabasca oil sands using spruce needle stable isotopes |
Presentation, Website |
| Ted Chastko Understanding herbicide influence on weed density |
Presentation, Website |
| Yannick Neveux Remote sensing or forest inventories? |
Presentation, Website |
| Andre Christensen Classifying soils that don't exist |
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| Benoit Gendreau-Berthiaume How do lodgepole pine forest evolve with time? |
Presentation, Website |
Class of 2010
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Amy Gainer Achieving success with Variable Rate Fertilizers |
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| Ashkan Zarnani Numerical Weather Prediction Model Uncertainty Analysis |
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| Chen Ding Can we transfer the Minnesota aspen to Alberta? evaluate aspen autumn phenology with provenance trials and remote sensing data in case of the climate change |
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| Erica Graham Is Underplanted White Spruce an Ecosystem Engineer? |
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| Evan Esch Do piles of wood chip residue conserve invertebrate diversity in harvested aspen forests? |
Presentation, Website |
| Hannah Horn Factors Affecting Habitat Occupancy by the Collared Pika, A Species at the Coal Face of Climate Change |
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| James Rodway Predicting Human-Related Greenhouse Gas Inventories |
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| Marija Chechina Cues in mass flowering of Dipterocarpaceae |
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| MC Roy Creating wetlands in post-mind landscape: the response of vegetation |
Presentation, Website |
| Megan Goudie Diatoms as a proxy for sea ice conditions in Baffin Bay, Labrador Sea |
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| Sandra Duran Factors underlying songbird community structure: local versus landscape |
Presentation, Website |
| Stefan Schreiber Poplar vs. Aspen: Surviving in a changing climate |
Presentation, Website |
| Tisa Bevan Where the feral horses roam ... |
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| Varina Crisfield Do alpine hiking trails show evidence of edge effects? |
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| Yaqiong Li How is the CO2 distribution affected by athmosphere structure and meteorological variables? |
Class of 2009
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Erin Cameron Seismic lines and songbirds |
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| Alana Clason Forest change under stress and disturbance: a case study in Whitebark pine-lichen ecosystems of northwestern B.C. |
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| Michelle Filiatrault Detecting spruce budworm from SPACE |
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| Haitao Li Genetic variation in aspen spring phenology |
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| Brenda Shaughnessy Natural recovery of vegetation on an admixed substrate in the Athabasca oil sands region |
Presentation, Website not available |
| Steven Tannas Does fertilization, watering and defoliation aid Kentucky bluegrass invasion in fescue grasslands? |
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| Michael Wagner Hydrologic classification of Alberta's forested regions |
Class of 2007
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Elisabeth Beaubien Spring Plant Phenology Data for Alberta: Using a climate change monitor to track nature’s pulse |
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| Francesco Cortini Satellite data to predict ecosystem productivity and climatic changes |
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| Mae Elsinger Restoration status of 33 well sites at Rumsey Block in central Alberta, Canada |
Presentation, Website not available |
| Timothy Gylander Aspen ecological genetics in Alberta |
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| Jaime Pinzon Ecology of spiders in the boreal forest conserving by emulating natural disturbances |
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| Matthew Pyper Life on the edge: Temporal responses of ground beetles to edge effects |
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| David Roberts Way Beyond Cool: Modelling North American Ecosystems to the Last Glacial Maximum |
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| Jeff Suter Principle component analysis of tree rings |
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| Hongan Yan Competitive effects of woody and herbaceous vegetation in a young boreal mixed stand |
Class of 2006
| Project Title | Presentation & Website |
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| Matthew Conrod Spatially estimating suitable boreal old-growth retention areas |
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| Peggy Desserud Oil and gas reclamation in the Rumsey natural area |
Presentation, Website |
| Laura Gray What to Grow? Determining species succession to relieve stress on old growth forests in the Philippines |
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| Catherine Lambert-Koizumi Dall's Sheep, Grizzly Bear and Woolf Spatial Interactions: Preliminary insights from the mighty Richardson Mountains |
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| Jonathan Martin-DeMoor Spatial patterns of white spruce regeneration following harvest |
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| Michael Mbogga Climate change in western Canada |
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| Julienne Morissette Living on the edge: The effects of multiple disturbances on wetland and riparian bird communities |
Presentation, Website |
| Vicki Sahanatien Polar bear harvest, sea ice and climate |