Salman Banisadr, M.Sc. Spring 2021
Salman holds a bachelor's degree in Human Environment from the Concordia University. His master's research aims to evaluate the governance system of a community-based ecotourism cooperative in the coastal community of Ventanilla. Located on the Pacific coast of the Mexican state of Oaxaca, the community actively manages the conservation of an adjacent lagoon, operates a crocodile sanctuary, and runs a sea turtle nursery.
Thesis title: "Evaluating the Governance System in Ventanilla's Community-based Eco-tourism Cooperative" Completion date: Spring 2021 Email: salman.banisadr (at) gmail.com |
Tariq Hossein, M.Sc., April 2017
Tariq has completed his graduate Master's thesis, working in partnership with the Cree Outfitting and Tourism Organization (COTA) and the Cree Nation of Wemindji. His research aimed at: (a) documenting the perspectives of the local community members, local and regional businesses, and scientists in relation to a proposed wildlife viewing project in James Bay and (b) assessing polar bear population in the said area.
With an undergraduate degree in Computer Information Science from the City University of New York (Brooklyn College), Tariq joined the M.Sc. program in the fall of 2014 and successfully defended his thesis in April 2017.
Thesis title: Polar Bear Tourism in Eeyou Istchee: an assessment of different perspectives and considerations
Email: tariq.hossein(at)gmail.com
With an undergraduate degree in Computer Information Science from the City University of New York (Brooklyn College), Tariq joined the M.Sc. program in the fall of 2014 and successfully defended his thesis in April 2017.
Thesis title: Polar Bear Tourism in Eeyou Istchee: an assessment of different perspectives and considerations
Email: tariq.hossein(at)gmail.com
Chloe Boone, M.Sc., June 2018
Chloe holds an honours degree in Human Environment from Concordia University (2016), which examined the experiences of collaborative water stewardship between Indigenous communities and the governments of Quebec and Canada. Her master’s research will explore Indigenous and Community Conservation Areas (ICCAs) as sites of re-territorialisation and their potential for healing relationships. She is particularly interested in confluent aquatic and marine sites, both as metaphor, and for the intersections that those sites bring to relationships.
Working thesis title: "Coastal ICCAs: The healing potential of re-territorialisation"
Completion date: Summer 2019
Email: cboone.34.cb(at)gmail.com
Working thesis title: "Coastal ICCAs: The healing potential of re-territorialisation"
Completion date: Summer 2019
Email: cboone.34.cb(at)gmail.com
Heather Elliott, M.Sc. Winter 2021
Heather joined the lab in September 2018. She holds a B.Sc. from the School of Environment at McGill University (2006). She has been involved in community-based agriculture initiatives since 2006, most recently co-founding a cooperative farm (La ferme coopérative aux champs qui chantent) and coordinating a network of collective gardens in Montreal (Club populaire des consommateurs). She is has a diploma from l'Herbothèque as a traditional herbalist and is currently completing the final requirements to be recognized as a naturopath.
Research Interests: Local food sovereignty; Settler and Indigenous solidarity through agriculture; Land education; Place-making; Herbal medicines.
Completion date: Winter 2021
Email: heather.l.elliott(at)gmail.com
Research Interests: Local food sovereignty; Settler and Indigenous solidarity through agriculture; Land education; Place-making; Herbal medicines.
Completion date: Winter 2021
Email: heather.l.elliott(at)gmail.com
Jessica Hewitt, M.Sc. Spring 2021
Jessica joined the lab in September 2017. She holds a B.Sc. from the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia.
Thesis title: "Examining Dispossession and Resistance with Kwantlen First Nation (BC): Resurgence and Remapping Stories as Strategies for Reconciliation" Completion date: Spring 2021 Email: jessd.hewitt(at)gmail.com |
Annie Lalancette, Ph.D., June 2017
Annie has a strong background in the natural sciences, holding a B.Sc. in biology from UQTR and a M.Sc. in environmental immunotoxicology from UQAM. Her graduate diploma in Environmental Impact Assessment at Concordia University led her to work for a full year at the Charles Darwin Foundation in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador as a member of the marine biology and fisheries research teams. There, she led a process to integrate local fishers’ perceptions of spiny lobster abundance and distribution with data from fisheries dependent and independent surveys. Building on this experience, her doctoral research focused on finding better ways to combine and reconcile the perspectives of local indigenous fishers with those of government fisheries biologists and managers. She explored this issue in the context of the Torres Strait tropical rock lobster fishery in northern Australia which will soon come under a quota management system for the first time.
Annie is currently doing a post-doctoral fellowship at St-Mary's University in Halifax.
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Working thesis title: "Reconciling Indigenous and Scientific Fisheries Knowledge in the Context of the Tropical Rock Lobster Fishery, Torres Strait, Northern Australia"
Email: annie.lalancette(at)gmail.com
Annie is currently doing a post-doctoral fellowship at St-Mary's University in Halifax.
Click here to have a look at her CV.
Working thesis title: "Reconciling Indigenous and Scientific Fisheries Knowledge in the Context of the Tropical Rock Lobster Fishery, Torres Strait, Northern Australia"
Email: annie.lalancette(at)gmail.com
Erich Seydewitz, M.Sc., July 2016
Erich is a Sports, Recreation and Physical Education Teacher who has completed a Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) in Development Studies with a focus in Environmental Education at Massey University, New Zealand. He has work experience as consultant for various organizations including United Nations Regional Offices in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Erich’s M.Sc. research focused on how the participation of local people and multiple organisations/stakeholders is being supported within two important networks of greenways / trails in Canada and Chile; the Trans Canada Trail (TCT) and Sendero de Chile (SDC) respectively. Erich’s research intended to identify lessons learned, both positive and negative, that could inform the planning and implementation process of the SDC.
Thesis: "An Assessment of Multi-Stakeholder Participation in the Trans Canada Trail: Lessons to inform Sendero de Chile"
Email: seydewitzerich(at)yahoo.es
Erich’s M.Sc. research focused on how the participation of local people and multiple organisations/stakeholders is being supported within two important networks of greenways / trails in Canada and Chile; the Trans Canada Trail (TCT) and Sendero de Chile (SDC) respectively. Erich’s research intended to identify lessons learned, both positive and negative, that could inform the planning and implementation process of the SDC.
Thesis: "An Assessment of Multi-Stakeholder Participation in the Trans Canada Trail: Lessons to inform Sendero de Chile"
Email: seydewitzerich(at)yahoo.es
Cassandra Lamontagne, M.Sc., May 2016
Cassandra also holds a B.A Human Environment from Concordia University. Her Master's research seeked to evaluate the impacts of climate change in an Gitga'ata's territory in coastal British Columbia. With the goal of forming a richer and more comprehensive understanding of climate change at this local scale, her research drew on climate data and modelling methods as well as local Indigenous Knowledge of change. Through interviews with community members, she recorded observations of climatic changes and their indicators in order to inform our perceptions of climate change and emphasize the intrinsic value of Indigenous Knowledge and ways of knowing as they relate to climate studies.
Thesis: "Environmental change in Gitga'ata territory: An assessment combining Gitga'ata knowledge and downscaled climate data"
Email: ca_lamon(at)liveconcordia.onmicrosoft.com
Thesis: "Environmental change in Gitga'ata territory: An assessment combining Gitga'ata knowledge and downscaled climate data"
Email: ca_lamon(at)liveconcordia.onmicrosoft.com
Kanwaljeet Dewan, M.Sc., May 2016
Kanwal also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Applied Science (Marine Environment) from the Australian Maritime College (University of Tasmania), Launceston, Australia.
Thesis: "Towards an improved understanding of community-level fisheries monitoring: A case study of the Wemindji Community Fisheries Program"
Email: kanwald(at)gmail.com
Thesis: "Towards an improved understanding of community-level fisheries monitoring: A case study of the Wemindji Community Fisheries Program"
Email: kanwald(at)gmail.com
Geneviève Layton-Cartier, M.Sc., August 2014
Thesis: "Facilitating Mechanisms in Support of Emerging Collaborative Governance of MPAs in Québec."
Magdalena Garcia, M.Sc., December 2011
Thesis: "Protected Areas and Indigenous Peoples in Chile."
Andra Syvänen, M.Sc., August 2011
Thesis: "Wemindji Cree Observation and Interpretations of Climate
Change: Documenting Adaptability in the Sub-Arctic."
Jesse Sayles, M.Sc., August 2008
Thesis: " Tapaiitam: Human modifications of the coast as adaptations to environmental change, Wemindji, eastern James Bay."
Miriam Atkinson, M. Public Policy & Public Administration, January 2008
Thesis: "Caring for the Land: Nemaska Cree strategies of resistance to the EM-1-A and Rupert Diversion Project in eastern James Bay, northern Quebec."
Marivic Pajaro, Ph.D., 2009.
Thesis: "Socio-economic Indicators of Marine Protected Area (MPA) Success in the Central Philippines". Natural Resource Management, UBC