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