Emily Studd Assistant Professor Thompson Rivers University Email: estudd (at) tru.ca I'm a wildlife ecologist interested in how individuals respond behaviourally to environmental change and how these behavioural responses shape species interactions, population dynamics, and food webs. Previously, I did my BScH at Queen's University, my MSc and PhD at McGill University with Dr. Murray Humphries, a PDF at University of Alberta with Dr. Stan Boutin, and an NSERC PDF at the University of Toronto Mississauga with Dr. Bailey McMeans. |
Kaitlyn Courchesne MSc Student (University of Alberta - co-supervised by Stan Boutin) Kaitlyn graduated as an Environmental Biology Honours student at McGill University and spent three years doing fieldwork with lynx, snowshoe hares, and American red squirrels in Kluane, Yukon. Continuing with the Kluane Red Squirrel Project, her MSc research focuses on identifying mechanisms to explain the observed differences in foraging behaviours between male and female squirrels. |
Emmanuel Mercier BSc Student TRU UREAP My research explores the influence of environmental variability during the shoulder seasons on population dynamics in a changing climate. I am interested in sensitive periods when phenological change happen and threshold crossing events are more likely to be observed. While most climate studies focus on mean environmental changes, I consider variability as a driving force in population dynamics, and use both remote sensing data and theoretical analysis to estimate the impacts of climate change on population persistence. My love for the natural world and my previous years of work as an outdoor guide have sparked my passion for research in ecology. |
Marlisse Challe BSc Student TRU Marlisse is working on completing her undergraduate degree majoring in Ecology and Environmental Biology. She is investigating whether consistent activity in red squirrels can be a potential indicator of stress using accelerometer data from Kluane, Yukon. Resource abundance, thermal conditions, and reproductive opportunities are the environmental stresses this study investigates. |
Clara Boisclair
BSc Honors Student TRU UREAP |
Thamindu Widyaratne
BSc Student TRU
BSc Student TRU
Josie Cummings
BSc Student TRU
Josie joined the lab as a research apprentice and is working to complete a literature review for the Taku River Tlingit First Nations on the effects of prescribed burning in the alpine on thin-horn sheep populations.
BSc Student TRU
Josie joined the lab as a research apprentice and is working to complete a literature review for the Taku River Tlingit First Nations on the effects of prescribed burning in the alpine on thin-horn sheep populations.
Past Students |
Olivier Jumeau
BSc Student TRU UREAP 2023 Olivier Jumeau is now a Master’s student at TRU and has a strong interest in wildlife ecology and animal-wildfire relationships. His project focuses on time-after-fire effects of lichen regeneration in woodland caribou habitat in South-Central British Columbia working closely with the Ulkatcho First Nation of Anahim Lake to guide research objectives and practises on their traditional territory. Preceding this, as part of the WEB lab, he studied the impacts of Nordic trail development on black bear summer diet. When he isn’t biking up to Sun Peaks to collect bear scat, he is swimming, collecting conifer cones, and Nordic skiing in the winter. During the school year, he plays goalkeeper for TRU Wolfpack Men’s soccer, for which he was part of the infamous 2022 U-Sports National Championship victory. |