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Tanzania field school cements future in community-driven climate action
When Abby Nyamu, an SFU environmental science student from Kenya, heard about SFU鈥檚 inaugural field school in Arusha, Tanzania, she knew she couldn't pass up the chance to go.
鈥淚鈥檓 big on learning about the African climate crisis,鈥� says Abby. 鈥淟earning about climate change and resilience in an African setting and getting to apply the knowledge I've acquired while studying in Canada is truly a one of kind opportunity.鈥�
Undergraduate student uses GIS to advance drought management and emergency preparedness in B.C.
Motivated by the devastating aftermath of the 2021 Sumas floods, Akmal Aslam and a classmate in GEOG 451 Spatial Modeling are developing a cellular automata model for simulating flooding of the Fraser River in the City of Abbotsford as part of a class project.
鈥淭his spatiotemporal model enables us to explore different flooding scenarios and analyze their impacts on the city over a specific time,鈥� says Akmal.
SFU Archaeology students work with Squamish community to preserve cultural heritage in local field school
SFU Archaeology undergraduate students returned to a local field school in collaboration with the Squamish Nation, getting a sense of what it is like to work as consultants in cultural resource management.
Recent SFU Archaeology graduate Evan Mugford shares his experience on the field school, which was his first archaeological excavation.
鈥淲hat stood out to me most is the extremely dense and rich amount and diversity of ancestral belongings we recovered during our work. It was humbling holding something that you know hasn't seen the light of day since someone stood there and created it hundreds or thousands of years ago.鈥�
FENV 2023 Changemaker discovers new capacity for creating change in planning Co-op
Ellen Watters took a chance last summer when she moved a 14-hour drive away for a paid Co-op placement in Fort St. John.
鈥淎s a REM Planning undergrad, I was really keen to gain direct, hands-on planning experience in my field and apply everything I have learned in university in a real-world context,鈥� says Ellen, who took a position as a planner with the Peace River Regional District.
SFU archaeology grad carves her own path to career in forensics
Fascinated by skeletons at a young age and captivated by the popular forensic drama, Bones, Chantelle Foster knew she wanted to pursue a career in forensics and registered in SFU鈥檚 joint major in criminology and anthropology.
Student RA鈥檚 summer in the wilderness yields new passion for research and exploration
As part of a project seeking to better understand the retreat of the last ice age in B.C., Matthew Syvenky spent two months in the wilderness of B.C.鈥檚 Cariboo region as a research assistant.
Each day, Matthew woke up early to visit landforms in remote locations, where he would examine layers of sediment through physical digging and the use of geophysical equipment like light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and ground penetrating radar (GPR).
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