Current Team Members
Name: Juliana Phelan
From: St. John’s, Newfoundland
Program: Master of Applied Science, Saint Mary’s University
Thesis Title: Patterns of Vegetation Structural Diversity across Heterogenous Landscapes in southwestern Nova Scotia
Description: My research aims to assess and quantify patterns of vegetation structural diversity through a variety of different indices, such as tree structural diversity and functional plant diversity in natural and harvested landscapes, using both ground sampling and aerial imagery.
From: St. John’s, Newfoundland
Program: Master of Applied Science, Saint Mary’s University
Thesis Title: Patterns of Vegetation Structural Diversity across Heterogenous Landscapes in southwestern Nova Scotia
Description: My research aims to assess and quantify patterns of vegetation structural diversity through a variety of different indices, such as tree structural diversity and functional plant diversity in natural and harvested landscapes, using both ground sampling and aerial imagery.
Name: Christina Rinas
From: Asheville, NC, USA. I am a community ecologist who specializes in lichens, bryophytes, and vascular plants in temperate, boreal, and subarctic ecosystems.
Program: Currently, I am a postdoc with Dalhousie University and the Nova Scotia Museum, where I study how forest edges affect cyanolichen community composition in Nova Scotia. In the past, I have studied how tall shrubs are expanding upslope onto alpine tundra in southcentral Alaska, and the diversity and distribution of lichens and bryophytes along a temperate to boreal altitudinal gradient in Southeastern Québec.
From: Asheville, NC, USA. I am a community ecologist who specializes in lichens, bryophytes, and vascular plants in temperate, boreal, and subarctic ecosystems.
Program: Currently, I am a postdoc with Dalhousie University and the Nova Scotia Museum, where I study how forest edges affect cyanolichen community composition in Nova Scotia. In the past, I have studied how tall shrubs are expanding upslope onto alpine tundra in southcentral Alaska, and the diversity and distribution of lichens and bryophytes along a temperate to boreal altitudinal gradient in Southeastern Québec.
Name: Isabella Smith
From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Program: Fulbright-Mitacs Globalink Research Intern
Research description: Completing an undergraduate honors thesis titled "Response of indicator species Lobaria pulmonaria to vegetation structure in southwest Nova Scotia, Canada"
From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Program: Fulbright-Mitacs Globalink Research Intern
Research description: Completing an undergraduate honors thesis titled "Response of indicator species Lobaria pulmonaria to vegetation structure in southwest Nova Scotia, Canada"
Name: Nina Bahia
From: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Program: I am a biologist and a masters student in the Professional Masters Program in Ecology Applied to Environmental Management at Federal University of Bahia.
Research description: To provide guidelines for fire management at rainforests protected areas in Brazil
From: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Program: I am a biologist and a masters student in the Professional Masters Program in Ecology Applied to Environmental Management at Federal University of Bahia.
Research description: To provide guidelines for fire management at rainforests protected areas in Brazil