Samuel Bartels is fascinated by the structural organization and biological composition (including trees, shrub and herbaceous species, fungi, bryophyte, and lichen communities) of forests and terrestrial ecosystems and conducts investigations into how their diversity, species interactions, and functions are impacted by environmental changes caused by humans.

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Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, and having completed her BSc in Biology at UBC Vancouver, Julia is slowly making her way North. She is interested in the impacts of human land use and climate change and is focused on solution-based approaches to the rapidly changing environment. For her master's project, she is studying ecosystem memory and ecological restoration of wildlife forage and understory diversity in a young pine monoculture plantation in Central-Interior BC. Her project concerns regrowth of understory vegetation after disturbance, with a focus on the efficacy of forest management practices to support wildlife. 

Sarah graduated with a BSc in Resource Science at the University of Saskatchewan and has spent the last ten years specializing in botany and wildlife biology within western and northern Canada. Her desire to help facilitate sustainable conservation initiatives in Canada through informed science has brought Sarah back to university to pursue her Masters. Her research interests focus on post-disturbance ecosystem recovery and habitat conservation for sensitive wildlife. Sarah’s master’s project will study the restoration efficacy of disturbed forested environments, in relation to woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus) habitat and forage requirements in northern British Columbia. 

Assessment of growth performance and quality indicators of planted stock at UNBC's Christmas Tree Farm

Biochar use in forest ecosystems: opportunities for British Columbia's forests

Assessing the viability of winch-assist harvesting within the sub-boreal spruce zone of British Columbia

Post-harvest wildlife habitat assessment