Mike grew up in the foothills of Alberta, where he first developed his love for the outdoors and ecology. Transitioning from Alberta to the West Coast after high school, he got the opportunity to combine his passion for ecology with his newfound interest in GIS halfway through his degree, receiving a BSc in Biology with a minor in Geographic Information Technology. Throughout university, Mike worked field summers in Haida Gwaii at a remote fishing lodge and in Banff National Park as an aquatic field technician for Parks Canada. Currently, Mike is using his GIS skills in the ALE Lab as a Research Assistant, where he is focused on modelling tundra ecosystems using UAVs and mapping permafrost landscape change in the Arctic. |