The general goal of this research is to analyze how linked phenomena to climate change are affecting the vulnerable communities in Latin America, what triggers forced migrations, and evaluate violations of human rights faced by environmental migrants in all stages of their movement. We will also examine existing policies and practices aimed at protecting their […]

Student will help company achieve various IT work product solutions.

The gut microbiome plays a highly important role in metabolic health of animals, as has been demonstrated by several studies in the last decade. It encodes a series of enzymes and produces compounds which are not available in human cells, that play a role in functions as important as the breaking down of complex food […]

Explore the use of virtual fencing collars to contain cattle within pasture boundaries on an operational level. This has not been done before by other research, and no other research has been done in mountainous regions. This would fill in gaps in research that have not been explored yet. On top of that research is […]

The Towards Gender Harmony project is a global project examining prescriptive and descriptive gender traits and attitudes towards issues such as equality, zero-sum beliefs, and precarious manhood beliefs. The project has produced several high-impact papers (e.g., Bosson et al., 2021; Kosakowska-Berezecka, 2020, 2023) and is forming the basis for current understanding of psychological processes influencing […]

Woodland caribou in the West Chilcotin are Threatened and face population decline due to habitat loss and increased predation. In winter, caribou in this area are dependant on lichen foraging underneath the snowpack, with mature lodgepole pine forests providing suitable lichen availability and predator avoidance. For the Rainbows Mountains and Itcha-Ilgachuz caribou herds, pine beetle […]

This project seeks to evaluate how contamination can influence the growth of a bacterial community. These experiments will be performed using small scale bioreactors in a lab setting, where 1 contamination source can be evaluated at a time. The results of these experiments will be evaluated by using 16s Amplicon sequencing to determine which bacterial […]

This proposed research aims to focus on the perspective of newcomers and the organizations that provide direct support to newcomers, and how policies and plans enable or inhibit how readily newcomers can find and secure skills- commensurate employment. It is our intent to make this research as practical as possible for newcomer-serving organizations to design […]

We have completed a research project titled COVID-19 Pandemic and Psycho-Social and Occupational Wellbeing of Frontline Healthcare Workers in BC, funded in 2021 through the Michael Smith Health Research BC, which is British Columbia’s health research agency. This project helped us to collect data from 400 frontline workers from BC. Using a unique combination of […]

Fishers in central British Columbia (BC) have not been thoroughly studied and there are many gaps in our understanding. This project aims to fill two important knowledge gaps that affect the reproduction and survival within the endangered Columbian population of fishers in central BC: habitat and diet. Prey, diet, and reproductive data will be compared […]

Canadian companies are responsible for nearly half of mining activities worldwide, and mining operations are expanding in Canada. Two critical aspects of mining include treating mine-influenced water and establishing natural ecosystems on previously mined lands. These goals can often be reached simultaneously with constructed wetlands that can reduce elevated parameters from surface water while providing […]

The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between COVID-19 and workplace toxicity in hotels. The recovery for the hotel industry post pandemic will be challenging enough without the potential for toxicity in the workplace to become an unexpected consequence of COVID-19. The research results will be used for academic and industry purposes […]