I graduated from the faculty of earth and environmental sciences in September 2021 under the supervision of Assistant Professor Mathieu Bourbonnais. My graduate research focused on terrestrial ecosystem change and the effects of change on large mammal landscape connectivity in the Chilcotin region of British Columbia. Since completing my master’s degree I have moved to Vancouver to work as a geospatial scientist in the Integrated Renose Sensing Studio (IRSS). As part of the IRSS team, I am assisting on a project developing new automatized approaches to accurately locate forest roads across Ontario from SPL data.

I completed my undergraduate degree at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland, where I developed academic and professional skills through the study of topics ranging from sustainable development and environmental-science, to environmental-assessment and GIS. My honours dissertation measured land cover change in Northern Uganda and discussed the impact of armed conflict on land cover and climate.

After graduating from my undergraduate degree, I spent three months in Chengdu city, China, where I worked with the Kanghua Community Development Centre. In this role, I assisted villagers in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River to establish farmer cooperatives and resource management plans that promote the sustainable harvesting of wild herbs and protect giant panda bear habitats.

From China, I moved to Daejeon City in South Korea, where I spent a year working for the Korea Institute of Energy Research. Working for the Institutes Technology Commercialization office, I participated in national and international commercialization conferences and aided the development of global technology patents.