This project seeks to understand how pedestrians cultural background affect their perceptions of urban space, and how those perceptions are fed into modern urban planning systems. Walkability is a measurement of how easy it is for a pedestrian to move through space, and varies greatly throughout the world. Previous studies have shown walkability is highly […]

In the last 30 years, mixed recycling and organics composting initiatives have drastically reduced the total amount of landfill waste generated in North American communities, and despite these encouraging trends, communities continue to experience land shortages for sanitary landfills. Zero-Waste initiatives offer a potential way forward to further reduce the amount of landfill waste generated […]

Je m’intéresse au sujet de la gestion de l’eau, particulièrement à l’époque romaine. La période romaine est l’âge d’or de l’hydraulique urbaine. J’ai choisi de faire une étude comparative entre les systèmes de gestion de l’eau en Grèce, en Égypte et en Syro-Palestine. À la Grèce, je vais me consacrer à deux régions, la Thessalie […]

Le projet de recherche fait état de la dernière phase d’occupation sur le site archéologique d’Argilos en Grèce du Nord, que l’on situe vers la fin de l’époque classique. Durant cette période, Argilos perd son statut de cité et se mute en un établissement rural sous le joug de l’empire macédonien. La mise au jour […]

La compréhension de l’économie pastorale au début de l’âge du fer, des périodes archaïques et classiques en Macédoine reste assez fragmentaire. Ma thèse a tenté de combler ces lacunes en étudiant l’économie pastorale et la relation entre les hommes et les animaux à travers l’exploitation et la consommation de ces derniers à Argilos. Cette étude […]

This capstone project seeks to develop intervention strategies to help Varsity Courts Student Family Housing (VCSFH) become a zero-waste community. Thus, this project aims to contribute to achieving the University of Calgary zero-waste goals. Nature’s Ride can use the intervention strategies as workshops that can be taught in schools. Nature’s Ride can explore the possibility […]

This project explores the history of bird sound recording in Canada and the USA, with a specific focus on the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell University, New York, which holds the world’s largest bird sound archive. I will focus on three case study recordings: Arthur A Allen and Peter Paul Kellogg’s 1935 Ivory-Billed Woodpecker […]

Domesticated over 12,000 years ago, cows are currently found in every country across the globe yet very little is known about their varied histories, geographies, and lives. This despite cows’ centrality to human pursuits of agriculture, colonization, and capitalism as well as their implication in climate change. Furthermore,even as social research on cows begins to […]

This project emphasizes on the invasive proliferation of obnoxious wetland plant, Phragmites australis in Canada and India, impacting the economy and ecology of both the countries. We focus on understanding the relationship of soil microbes and this plant species, whether soil microbiota aids in its successful invasive spread. In view of the growing pollution in […]

There are Atlantic sturgeon in the Restigouche River. This species is millions of years old and it is still found in our waters today. Fishers have reported their sightings every year in the last decade. Unfortunately, this species is now considered to be a species-at-risk. Because their numbers are so low, we don’t see them […]

Le platine et le palladium sont deux métaux utilisés dans plusieurs industries et dont la demande annuelle mondiale connaît une croissance constante depuis le milieu des années 1970. L’industrie automobile est l’une des plus grandes consommatrices de ces éléments où, intégrés au pot catalytique, ils permettent de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de […]

The biologically-fixed N is more efficiently converted into protein than mineral N from fertilizers. As low protein content is currently a topic of great concern in many soybean-growing areas, improvement of BNF efficiency may reach higher protein levels with lower environmental impacts. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have shown excellent results in the association of single-nucleotide […]