Nina recently graduated from UVic with a major in Geography and a minor in Environmental Studies. She began working with the Arctic Landscape Ecology Lab in 2014 as a part of a directed study which used high resolution repeat air photos (from 1980 and 2013) to investigate vegetation change across several different terrain types in the Tuktoyaktuk Coastlands. Nina is currently involved with several different projects including 1) assessing the economic and physical vulnerability of three Alaskan communities to storm surge and sea level rise; 2) creating high resolution orthomosaics to assist monitoring areas experiencing rapid change; and 3) examining how spruce growth and density in the Tuktoyaktuk region has changed between 1980 and 2015. |