Emily Bowyer – Forest Ecology Group

Katerina Coveny Presents at NACW 2026

Posted on July 10, 2026 By Emily Bowyer

Katerina presented the results of her MSc thesis on the influence of changing permafrost conditions on caribou lichen biomass in the NWT at the North America Caribou Workshop 2026. Up to 80% of the boreal biome is found within permafrost regions and with high latitude warming widespread thaw is...

Claire Bandet Presents at NACW 2026

Posted on July 3, 2026 By Emily Bowyer

PhD student Claire Bandet shared the results from her first year of work on the FIRESCAR project at the North American Caribou Workshop in Yellowknife in June. During a week of bluebird skies, she and recent FERG alumnus Katerina Coveny (who shared the results of her master’s research) attended wo...

Craig Woodruff Presents at NAFEW 2026

Posted on June 26, 2026 By Emily Bowyer

Craig Woodruff presented at the North American Forest Ecology Workshop in June 2026 during a special session titled “From Inventory to Resilience: Rethinking Forest Monitoring for a Disturbance-Prone Era.” His presentation focused on using drone-based remote sensing to rapidly assess fue...

Katerina Coveny Successfully Defends MSc

Posted on June 12, 2026 By Emily Bowyer

Congratulations to Katerina Coveny on successfully defending her Master’s thesis in May 2026! Her research examined how permafrost thaw is affecting caribou lichen — a vital winter food source for threatened caribou populations — across a wide latitudinal range in the Northwest Territories...

Dr Jennifer Baltzer is Announced as an IBFRA 2026 Keynote Speaker

Posted on March 2, 2026 By Emily Bowyer

Dr Jennifer Baltzer has been announced as one of three keynote speakers for IBFRA 2026 (International Boreal Forest Research Association). Under the theme “Living with Disturbance — Resilience in Boreal Forests,” keynote speakers will share global perspectives on disturbance, climate change, a...

Svetlana Yegorova Presents Research in a Forest Stewards Guild Webinar

Posted on January 30, 2026 By Emily Bowyer

Svetlana Yegorova presented the research from her most recent publication in a webinar on the Forest Stewards Guild. Check out the link below! Link to webinar recording →...

Svetlana Yegorova’s newest publication! Changing climate may drive large shifts in vegetation zones of Oregon, USA

Posted on January 21, 2026 By Emily Bowyer

The Baltzer Lab has returned from another successful Frost Probing Campaign....

Quirks and Quarks: Tipsy ‘drunken trees’ in Canada’s North are a sign of our warming climate

Posted on November 21, 2025 By Emily Bowyer

Raquel Alfaro Sanchez was interviewed by Bob McDonald regarding a paper recently published in PNAS. Previously a post-doc with the Forest Ecology Lab, she now works with Natural Resources Canada as a Forest Ecology Researcher at the Northern Forestry Centre in Edmonton, Alberta. Click the links be...

Frost Probing Campaign 2025

Posted on November 15, 2025 By Emily Bowyer

The Baltzer Lab has returned from another successful Frost Probing Campaign....

Mackenzie Mihorean receives Weston Family Award in Northern Research

Posted on October 29, 2025 By Emily Bowyer

FERG student Mackenzie Mihorean has been given the Weston Family Award in Northern Research for her Master’s level research. You can learn more about the award on the Weston Foundation website Mackenzie is investigating the implications of a deadlyfungal pathogen, aspen running canker, on fut...