With generous support from The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, Wildlife Conservation Society Canada (WCS Canada) has established the Weston Fellowship Program. The program is supporting established or new graduate level students in the field of applied conservation science at Canadian universities.
The fellowships program is intended to provide all or partial funding of graduate level field research activities for students to undertake their thesis-related field work and are not intended for salaries. The research undertaken by these students will be relevant to WCS Canada’s conservation objectives at our two long-term sites: the boreal region of northern Ontario and the northern boreal mountains of Yukon and British Columbia.
2010 Garfield Weston Fellows
Northern Ontario - Total $20,000
Ben O'Reilly, University of Toronto, M.Sc. Candidate, who will conduct research into the paleoecology (the study of fossils and ecosystems) and paleohydrology (the science of hydrologic systems as they existed during previous periods of Earth’s history) of the Hudson Bay Lowland.
Julee Boan, Lakehead University, PhD Candidate, researching the impact of post-harvest, regenerating vegetation on apparent competition and habitat partitioning between woodland caribou and moose in north-western Ontario.
Mark Basterfield, Trent University and M.Sc. Candidate. His research is on habitat selection of woodland caribou on a managed landscape.
Northern Boreal Mountains - Total $20,000
Krista Sittler, M.Sc. Candidate, University of Northern British Columbia. Krista’s research is focussed on the influences of prescribed fire on two focal ungulate species in Northern British Columbia, as her Masters thesis in Natural Resources and Environmental Studies.