Our Graduate Students

Masters

First Year


ANSARY, Rafizzaman
Email: rafiansary@gmail.com

Supervisor: Thompson
BHATTARAI, Prasid
Email: prasid23@gmail.com

Supervisor: Thompson
Email: amybrown87@hotmail.com
BROWN, Amy

Supervisor: Davidson-Hunt











CARRIERE, Christine
Email: c.carriere@dal.ca

Supervisor: Koper
CARNOCHAN, Stacey
Email: sjcarnochan@hotmail.com

Supervisor: Koper






DUNNE, Leanne
Email: leannecdunne@gmail.com

Supervisor: Sinclair








Email: flaskoa@cc.umanitoba.ca
FLASKO, Amy

Supervisor: Manseau





Email: erangakokila@yahoo.com
GALAPPATHTHI, Eranga

Supervisor: Berkes








HOWATT, Stephen
Email: steve_o_24@hotmail.com

Supervisor: Henley
JANUSZ, Jennifer
Email: jljrenton@gmail.com

Supervisor: Koper






JUN, Geulim
Email: geulimjun@gmail.com

Supervisor: Henley
LABOSSIERE, Leanne
Email: labossie@ualberta.ca

Supervisor: Koper
Email: lockhar2@dal.ca
LOCKHART, Jessica

Supervisor: Koper





MIRETSKI, Inna
Email: inna.miretsky@gmail.com

Supervisor: Davidson-Hunt






MOLLOY, Kelsey
Email: kelseym88@gmail.com

Supervisor: Koper









Email: shanepratt@trentu.ca
PRATT, Shane

Supervisor: Koper







RONY, Mohammad
Email: mdshamsulkabir@gmail.com

Supervisor: Thompson





VESPA, Morgan
Email: morgan.vespa@gmail.com

Supervisor: Sinclair






Email: jennygyoo@gmail.com
YOO, Jenny

Supervisor: Koper





Second Year


Email: umahme35@cc.umanitoba.ca
AHMED, Supria

Supervisors: Haque

Thesis Focus: Building Environmental Governance Capacity in Bangladesh

AKTHER, Nazia
Supervisor: Thompson
Email: umbob@cc.umanitoba.ca
BOB, Megan

Supervisor: Davidson-Hunt





Email: rdabolton@gmail.com
BOLTON, Richard

Supervisor: Davidson-Hunt

Thesis Focus: Iskatewizaagegan No. 39 Independent First Nation Contemporary Fishing Practice: Anishinaabe Perspectives on Well-Being, Knowledge and Practice





Email: jaclyndiduck@hotmail.com
DIDUCK, Jaclyn

Supervisor: Sinclair

Thesis Focus: Understanding Canadian Values of the Urban Forest: Connecting Winnipeg Residents to its Trees





DUKPA, Rinchu
Email: rinchudukpa@gmail.com

Supervisor: Henley
Email: katedykman@gmail.com
DYKMAN, Kate

Supervisor: Sinclair

Thesis Focus: Public Participation and Learning for Sustainability through Integrated Watershed Management in Manitoba, Canada





Email: jack.b.frey@gmail.com
FREY, James

Supervisor: Berkes
Thesis Focus: Coastal conservation in Indonesia






Email: raghu7g@gmail.com
GEEBU, Raghavender

Supervisor: Thompson

Website: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~thompso4/Raghu.html


Email: umlwiwst@cc.umanitoba.ca
LWIWISKI, Tonya

Supervisor: Koper
Website: http://www.conserveprairiebirds.org/grad-students/current/
Thesis Focus: Effects of Grazing Intensity On Plant Biodiversity and Vegetation Structure in a Northern Mixed-Grass Prairie
Email: alli.morrison@gmail.com
MORRISON, Alli

Supervisor: Davidson-Hunt

Thesis Focus: Exploring wetland indigenous knowledge of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in the Saskatchewan River Delta, Manitoba

Email: Natasha.Szach@gmail.com
SZACH, Natasha

Supervisor: Sinclair

Thesis Focus: Keepers of the Water: Exploring Anishinaabe Women’s Knowledge of Water and Contribution to ‘Common Land, Common Ground'


RANDALL, Christopher
Email: mr.chris.randall@gmail.com

Supervisor: Henley
REZAI, Fatemeh
Email: fatemeh.rezai1980@gmail.com

Supervisor: Thompson
RODGERS, Jennifer
Email: j3rodger@uwaterloo.ca

Supervisor: Koper
Email: act384@mail.usask.ca
TASTAD, Adrienne

Supervisor: Koper
Website: http://www.conserveprairiebirds.org/grad-students/current/
Thesis Focus: The relative effects of grazing by bison and cattle on the plant community heterogeneity in Northern mixed prairie
Email: heidi_w_1@hotmail.com
WALKER, Heidi

Supervisor: Sinclair








Continuing


BISSON, Tiffany
Email: tiffanybisson@hotmail.com

Supervisor: Haque
Thesis Focus: An Assessment of Cyclone Mitigation Policies of Bangladesh: A Focus on Early Warning Systems
Email: bruinsma_dave@hotmail.com
BRUINSMA, David

Supervisor: Koper

Website: http://www.conserveprairiebirds.org/grad-students/current/

Thesis Focus: Does Conspecific attraction explain area sensitivity of songbirds in tall-grass prairie?


Email: mjburt75@hotmail.com
BURT, Melanie

Supervisor: Sinclair

Thesis Focus: Capacity building for source water protection in First Nation communities


Email: lydiacarpenter03@yahoo.ca
CARPENTER, Lydia

Supervisor: Berkes

Thesis Focus: Livelihoods and Gender in a Coastal Artisanal Fishing Community: Paraty, Brazil





Email: godwinchan@shaw.ca
CHAN, Godwin

Supervisor: Thompson
Website: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~thompso4/Godwin.html
Thesis Focus: An Examination of Forest Fragmentation and Habitat Loss Between Duck Mountain Provincial Park and Riding Mountain Provincial Park, Manitoba
DEMSKI, Allyson
Email: umdemski@cc.umanitoba.ca

Supervisor: Henley
Thesis Focus: Beaches and Sand Dunes in Grand Beach Provincial Park, Manitoba: Development of Management Guidelines and Monitoring Strategies to Ensure Long Term Ecological Sustainability
DETTMAN, Mark
Email: dettman.mr@forces.gc.ca

Supervisor: Henley
Email: kippfennell8@gmail.com
FENNELL, Kipp

Supervisor: Thompson
Thesis Focus: Economic and Energy Assessment of Biomass Harvesting at a Northern Off-Grid Community: A Case Study of Barren Lands First Nation at Brochet, Manitoba


Email: sfulford@hotmail.com
FULFORD, Stephanie

Supervisor: Thompson

Website: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~thompso4/Stephanie.html

Thesis Focus: Learning for Change: The Youth for Eco Action Program


Email: north54@mts.net
HUCK, David

Supervisor: Haque

Thesis Focus: The Impact of Effective Public Engagement on Water Planning in Manitoba




KHAN, Mohammed
Email: shantois@yahoo.com

Supervisor: Haque
Thesis Focus: Green Microcredit and its Implication on Sustainable Livelihood
Email: alley.danielsen@gmail.com
KRAUSE-DANIELSEN, Allison

Supervisor: Koper
Website: http://www.conserveprairiebirds.org/grad-students/current/
Thesis Focus: Microhabitat Preferences of the Northern Prairie Skink Plestiodon Septentrionalis on Exurban Residential Land in South-Western Manitoba
LANE, David
Email: umlanedm@cc.umanitoba.ca

Supervisor: Sinclair
Thesis Focus: Asking the Right Scoping Questions for Shipping around Sirmilik National Park of Canada
Email: laportenic@hotmail.com
LAPORTE, Nicholas

Supervisor: Koper

Website: http://www.conserveprairiebirds.org/grad-students/current/
Thesis Focus: Western Grebes at Delta Marsh, Manitoba


MARTIN, Kristen
Email: kristen.martin01@gmail.com

Supervisor: Koper
Website: http://www.conserveprairiebirds.org/grad-students/current/
Thesis Focus: Habitat Selection by Yellow Rail(Coturnicops Noveboracensis) in the Prairie Region of South-Eastern Manitoba
PATTON, Eva
Email: eva_patton@yahoo.com

Supervisor: Berkes
Thesis Focus: Fisheries Co-Management and Adaptation in a Changing Arctic: A Case Study of Dolly Varden Char Subsistence Fisheries Co-Management in Aklavik and Inuvik, Northwest Territories,Canada
Email: enpipher@gmail.com
PIPHER, Emily

Supervisor: Koper

Website: http://www.conserveprairiebirds.org/grad-students/current/

Thesis Focus: Effects of Grazing Intensity and Years Grazed on Songbird Nesting Success in Northern Mixed-Grass Prairies




RATUSKI, Sheldon
Email: ratuskis@unbc.ca

Supervisor: Davidson-Hunt
Website: http://www.cgrf.ca/research-team/students/
Thesis Focus: Cultural Landscapes of the Common Ground: Mapping First Nations’ Relationships to the Landscape
RICHARDSON, Alexis
Email: ancrichardson@gmail.com

Supervisor: Koper
Thesis Focus: Changes in Songbird Diversity Through Time in Response to Burning and Grazing in the Northern and Mixed-Grass Prairie
RUSSELL, Jennifer
Email: j_erussell01@hotmail.com

Supervisor: Sinclair
Email: ydsherpa13@yahoo.com
SHERPA, Yangji

Supervisor: Henley/Sinclair

Thesis Focus: Public Participation in Tourism Development: A Case Study of the Himalayan Ski Village (HSV) Project in Manali, India






SMITH, Stephen
Email: ssmith.ca@gmail.com

Supervisor: Thompson
Thesis Focus: A Study to Determine the Feasibility of Bio-Gas Utilization at the University of Manitoba
TEETAERT, Timothy
Email: tim_teetaert@hotmail.com

Supervisor: Koper
Thesis Focus: Effects of Cattle Grazing on Plant Community Heterogeneity in the Mixed-Grass Prairies of Grasslands National Park of Canada (GNPC)
Email: myawheeler@gmail.com
WHEELER, Mya

Supervisor: Sinclair
Website: http://www.cgrf.ca/research-team/students/
Thesis Focus: Common Land, Common Ground: Imagining Sense of Place Connections Among Local People




Email: lubnayeasmin_356@yahoo.com
YEASMIN, Lubna

Supervisor: Berkes

Thesis Focus: Enhancing the Safety Net: The Role of Green Micro-Credit in Rural Livelihood Diversity and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh





Ph.D

First Year


BOCKSTAEL, Erika
Email: ebockstael@yahoo.ca

Supervisor: Berkes
Email: deborapeterson@yahoo.com.br
PETERSON, Debora

Supervisor: Berkes







Email: jeanpolfus@gmail.com
POLFUS, Jean

Supervisor: Manseau








TURNER, Katherine
Email: katelturner@gmail.com

Supervisor: Davidson-Hunt





Second Year


Email: ummoulto@cc.umanitoba.ca
MOULTON, Laurel

Supervisor: Koper
Website: http://www.conserveprairiebirds.org/grad-students/current/
Research: Assessing the Effects of Anthropogenic Disturbance on An Early Successional Species at Multiple Spatial Scales
Email: umislamd@cc.umanitoba.ca
ISLAM, Durdana

Supervisor: Berkes










Email: sabrina.islam07@gmail.com
ISLAM, Sabrina

Supervisor: Haque







Email: shahid.akm@gmail.com
SHAHIDULLAH, A.K.M

Supervisor: Haque
Research: Community-Based Green Micro-Enterprise: Fostering Sustainability through Linking Ecosystem Goods and Services, Microcredit and Poverty Alleviation
Email: livsylvester@gmail.com
SYLVESTER, Olivia

Supervisor: Davidson-Hunt
Research Blog: http://farmsforestsfoods.blogspot.com/ Research: Forest-dwelling People and Food Networks in Limón Costa Rica



Email: salimuddin07@yahoo.com
UDDIN, Mohammed Salim

Supervisor: Haque

Research: Resilience and human response systems to natural disaster in Bangladesh rural communities


Email: melzurba@gmail.com
ZURBA, Melanie

Supervisor: Sinclair

Website: http://www.cgrf.ca/research-team/students/

Research: Building Common Ground: Cross-cultural Communications and Transformative Learning for Shared Governance


Third Year


CHIMELLO DE OLIVEIRA, Luiz
Email: oliveira_lec@yahoo.com.br

Supervisor: Berkes
Research: Drivers, Scenario Planning and Future Options for Coastal Communities in Paraty, Brazil
HOSTETLER, Glen
Email: glenhostetler@shaw.ca

Supervisor: Sinclair
Research: Public participation in natural resources and environmental management and its connection to deliberative democracy
KAMAL, Asfia
Email: asfiagulrukh@yahoo.com

Supervisor: Thompson/Haque
PENNER, Robert
Email: rpenner@ucn.ca

Supervisor: Davidson-Hunt/Sinclair
Research: Place-based learning communities and engaged institutions of higher education
Email: mica.trimble@gmail.com
TRIMBLE. Micaela

Supervisor: Berkes

Research: Key Conditions for Adaptive Co-Management of Artisanal Fisheries in Coastal Uruguay, with Comparisons to Paraty, Brazil

Continuing


Email: myrle.ballard@yahoo.ca
BALLARD, Myrle

Supervisor: Thompson/Haque
Website: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~thompso4/Myrle.html
Research: The Role of Indigenous Women in Sustainable Resource Use: Exploring the Anishinaabe Knowledge Systems at Lake St. Martin First Nation


Email: umburlac@cc.umanitoba.ca
BURLANDO, Catie


Supervisor: Davidson-Hunt/Berkes

Website: http://www.culturallandscapes.ca/author/cburlando/

Research: Negotiating Customary Stewardship in the Whitefeather Forest: Narratives, Conservation and Political Process in Northwestern Ontario


Email: umdeutsn@cc.umanitoba.ca
DEUTSCH, Nathan

Supervisor: Davidson-Hunt/Berkes
Research: Knowledge and institutions that connect people to the land: First Nations in the Whitefeather Forest Planning area, NW Ontario
Email: umdharch@cc.umanitoba.ca
DHAR CHOWDHURY, Parnali


Supervisor: Haque

Research: Understanding Dengue Transmission Dynamics through Ecohealth Approaches in Bangladesh


Email: umgalper@cc.umanitoba.ca
GALPERN, Paul


Supervisor: Manseau
Website: http://borealscape.ca
Research: My main interests are landscape and conservation questions, particularly the development and application of landscape genetic approaches to understand the movement and dispersal of wildlife at various temporal and spatial scales.
Email: umidrobo@cc.umanitoba.ca
IDROBO, Carlos Julián


Supervisor: Davidson-Hunt
Website: http://www.culturallandscapes.ca/author/cidrobo/

Research: Caicaran Landscapes of Practice: Adaptive Learning, Harvesting, Natural Resource Access and Well-being in Paraty, SE Coastal Brazil


KHAN, S. M. Munjurul H.
Email: munjurulkhan@yahoo.com

Supervisor: Haque
Research: Linking Conservation and Sustainable Livelihood Strategies: A Case Study of Northern Pakistan
KHAN, Shah Raees
Email: shahraees@hotmail.com

Supervisor: Haque
Research: An examination of integration between conservation and sustainable livelihood strategies: A case study of northern areas of Pakistan
Email: llestonraptor@live.com
LESTON, Lionel

Supervisor: Koper
Website: http://www.conserveprairiebirds.org/grad-students/current/
Research: Exploring how (mowing frequency, with / without haying) and where (in urban, suburban, and rural landscapes) transmission lines might be managed as habitat for plants and animals of tall-grass prairie, which is a critically endangered ecosystem in Manitoba
Email: ummoyerj@cc.umanitoba.ca
MOYER, Joanne

Supervisor: Berkes
Research: Learning, Faith, and Sustainability in Kenya: Considering the Work of Faith-Based Organizations


Email: umnayak@cc.umanitoba.ca
NAYAK, Prateep

Supervisor: Berkes
Research: Community-based management and social justice in Chilika Lagoon, Orissa, India



PLAYFORD, Tomasin
Email: umplayfo@cc.umanitoba.ca

Supervisor: Haque
Research:Season Subsistence Strategies of Black Duck, Vickers Focus, Mortlach Cultures Inhabiting the Canadian North Eastern Plains
PREMAUER, Julia
Email: umpremau@cc.umanitoba.ca

Supervisor: Berkes
Research: Community Conserved Area within a Colombian National Park: An Opportunity for Building Participatory Conservation
QUINN, Lisa
Email: ljquinn@hotmail.com

Supervisor: Sinclair
Research: Consumer Engagement in Sustainable Clothing Practices: The Role of Transformative Learning in the Transition towards Sustainability
SAYEDURRAHN, Chowdhury
Email: sayedurrchy@yahoo.com

Supervisor: Haque
Email: jstepaniuk@ucn.ca
STEPANIUK, Jeffray

Supervisor: Thompson/Haque
Research: An Evaluation of Didactic Versus Situated Learning in the Environmental Sciences Bi-Cultural(Indigenous and Euro-Canadian) Perception and Participatory Video Using a Stream Discharge Calculation Activity for Curriculum Reform
Email: ammyhide@yahoo.com
PRADHAN, Upendra

Supervisor: Sinclair
Research: Responses to Climate Variability in the Western Himalaya: Participation, Institutions and Learning