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Research Interests: Ecological connectivity; Landscape resilience; Sustainable resource management; Complex adaptive systems and complexity science; Natural resources management; Agroforestry; Modelling and GIS; Climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Research Interests: Geological sources of methane emissions; thermal springs geochemistry; hydrogeology; stable isotope biogeochemistry; laser spectroscopy.

Research Interests: Investigate how interactions between climate change and forest disturbance affect hydrological processes at the watershed scale; and simulate possible future hydrological responses under different climate change and forest disturbance scenarios.

Research Interests: The aim of the project is to develop a spatial model of the Okanagan landscape that characterizes the socio-ecological dynamics of wildfire management and predicts the potential environmental outcomes of wildfire mitigation strategies. For this research, input from local stakeholders and experts will be sought on what mitigation strategies might be acceptable, and what key concerns exist regarding the impacts of wildfire.

Research Interests: Environmental impact assessment; biodiversity protection and promotion; Indigenous knowledge and consultation; Canadian environmental policy/law.

Research Interests: Developing empirical 3D estimates of forest fuel load and structure; testing their application for wildfire risk mapping based on fuel connectivity and burn probability. This research uses airborne LiDAR data acquired for the Okanagan Valley, which will be used to develop voxel-based 3D estimates of vertical and horizontal forest fuel structure.

Research Interests: Detrital zircon geochronology; basin analysis; Precambrian history of the Canadian Shield.

Research Interests: Urban resilience is a concept which can be used to examine the readiness for urban centres to withstand, adapt to, absorb, respond to, and recovery from acute or chronic stresses. To help cities improve their resilience, several multidisciplinary frameworks have been developed in academe and the non-profit sector. This research will explore how urban resilience is being implemented within Canadian cities.

Research Interests: The examination of groundwater and stream interaction through alluvial fans in the Okanagan water-shed. Incorporation of water isotope, radon and trace element analysis will be implemented to determine the extent of interaction and assess groundwater recharge. Groundwater and Stream interaction; Isotope Geochemistry; Water Characterization.

Research Interests: Fluvial geomorphology; Carbon dynamics.

Research Interests: Integrated environmental and natural resource management; environmental impact assessment; wildlife management and conservation

Research Interests: My research is focused on applying in-situ geochronology to understand crustal evolution and the formation of critical minerals.

Research Interests: Grizzly bear monitoring; spatial and temporal activity pattern analysis; wildlife management.

Research Interests: Microstructure analysis and paleopiezometery; thermodynamic phase modelling; deformation events; orogenesis; tectonic evolution of Precambrian Earth

Research Interests: Geomatics; climate change; biodiversity conservation; traditional ecological knowledge; forest management; remote sensing; unoccupied aerial systems; artificial intelligence; open data. Ian is a keen cartographer and his maps can be found in magazines, books and online. He is also a certified Project Management Professional.

Research Interests: Ecosystem Service Mapping & Modeling, Social-Ecological System Resilience, Spatial Analysis. The project deals with a landscape-specific ecosystem service dynamic modelling framework to explore the interactions of multiple ecosystem services such as agricultural food production, pollination, water supply, and water quality, and services related to habitat (wetlands and grassland) in the prairie landscape under different future scenarios.

Research Interests: Watershed Hydrology; Landscape Ecology; Dynamic Hydrological Modelling

Research Interests: Active tectonics; shear zones; structural geology; metamorphic petrology

Research Interests: Biogeochemistry; soil methanotrophy; stable isotopes; tracing of natural greenhouse gas emission and uptake and implications on climate change; automation of gas sampling and monitoring equipment using microcontrollers

Research Interests: Spatial riparian ecosystem modelling, vegetation structure influences on stream processes, LiDAR and spectral data applications.

Research Interests: I am looking into developing a better understanding of the complexities around socio-ecological systems as they relate to grizzly bears / huckleberries and forest practices through the lens of Indigenous and western science approaches. The research will contribute to a collaborative research-based model between Indigenous and academic communities.

Research Interests: Sustainable water resource management; Climate change and hydrology; Integrated watershed management; Hydrological impact assessment.

Research Interests: Structural geology; tectonics & microstructures; geochronology; geothermobarometry; igneous and metamorphic petrology; evolution of shear zones.

Research Interests: Hydrological responses to wildfires at the watershed scale

Research Interests: Work with regional stakeholders, especially Okanagan Nation, to take an agent-based modeling approach in exploring grizzly bear habitat management options and conservation strategies on traditional Okanagan territory.