Practicum placements are the signature method used in undergraduate nursing programs to consolidate knowledge in practice. The literature review conducted before this study showed limited research on pediatric practices in undergraduate nursing…

This thesis examines the 2018 wildfire season in Cheslatta Carrier Nation territory through the lived experiences of community members. It details how sustained wildfire suppression contributed to changes to the social, political and the physical…

‘Just transition’ is a burgeoning policy goal, as well as an academic and social justice concept. Governments are increasingly operationalizing just transition policy approaches as they realize the scale and scope of industrial transition needed to…

Increasingly, artificial neural networks are explored to learn relationships among temporal sequence data for purposes of classification, prediction, and anomaly detection with the hope of exceeding the performance of more traditional machine…

Despite substantial advances in cleaning up marine spills, solid oily waste generation during a spill is an inevitable problem that could easily exceed the capacity of locally available waste management facilities. This thesis developed a pyrolysis…

Wildfires are a growing threat due to climate change, and they often leave unburned forest patches called fire refugia. While young forests in some regions burn more severely, preliminary observations in central British Columbia suggest that managed…