Nature Vancouver

Graduate Scholarship – Keila Stark Keila Stark is a PhD Candidate of Zoology at the University of British Columbia on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Territory. Her research aims to understand the effect of climate warming on biodiversity, with a focus on coastal ecosystems. Her work takes her to eelgrass (Zostera marina) meadows along the BC coast, and to coastal areas around Baffin Island, Nunavut. She frequently visits the eelgrass meadow at Roberts Bank near the proposed Terminal 2 expansion site, and is a witness…

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Tara Brown – Nature Vancouver Graduate Scholarship Tara L. Brown is a 2nd year Ph.D. student in the UBC Faculty of Forestry, a certified Forest Therapy Guide, and a certified educator in sustainable development. She’s interested in forest-based interventions and human health and well-being. Previously, she co-founded startups and nonprofits that developed hands-on and digital STEM education programs in formal and informal K-8 spaces in the U.S. and Japan.  For her dissertation research project, she examines the effects of forest…

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Jay Matsushiba – Hugh Hamilton Memorial Undergraduate Scholarship  Jay Matsushiba is a 4th year student in Biological Sciences at Simon Fraser University and has recently completed a Geographic Information Systems Certificate (SFU). In Jay’s words, “My goal is to equip myself with the skills and experience to be able to make the study of ecology more powerful through the use of modern technology.” Jay has accumulated a great deal of volunteer experience in the past seven years with the Vancouver Aquarium and…

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Ally Truscott – 2021 Nature Vancouver Undergraduate Scholarship Ally Truscott is in her first year of studies in the Fish, Wildlife and Recreation Diploma program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). She is from Pemberton and what really impressed us about Ally is how much experience she has already accomplished. She has been an active member of the Pemberton Wildlife Association since 2019 and is now on the Board of Directors. In the last few years, Ally has participated…

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2020: This year we received 18 applications. The Board of Directors decided to award two scholarships and also pay $100 each to all other applicants. Christopher Stinson Christopher Stinson is a Master’s of Science student in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia. He is studying the taxonomy and evolutionary relationship between the two species of marten found in British Columbia. Specifically the contact zone between the ranges and the differences genetically and morphometrically between Pacific Marten…

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