Expertise and Consulting
Multi-scale ecosystem assessment
Understanding how climate change and land-use practices impact arctic, alpine and aquatic systems using multi spatio-temporal scales from individuals to communities.
Remote sensing, field sampling and camera traps
Leveraging existing camera trap datasets and implementing new projects to monitor species and ecosystem health, including using widlife camera trap datasets to extra plant metrics, and link findings to field samples and satellite imagery.
Integrating traditional and western data
Using multi-modal frameworks and traditional knowledge to answer community-based questions.
Data visualization and science communication
Translating complex concepts into accessible visuals tailored for community outreach, scientific conferences, research articles, meetings with stakeholders and reporting.
Sunset in Abisko, Sweden
Project examples
Role of Bioparcs in the reintroduction of Eurasian vultures in Europe
B.Sc. Honours Thesis
Evaluating the impacts of climate change on tundra ecosystems in Northern Sweden.
Publication about the long-term study in progress
The role of plant functional groups mediating climate impacts on carbon and biodiversity of alpine grasslands
Published in Scientific Data in 2022
Using by-catch data from wildlife surveys to quantify climatic parameters and timing of phenology for plants and animals using camera traps
Published in Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation in 2019
Wildlife cameras for plants: Using motion-triggered wildlife data to monitor plant phenology
In preparation – Using camera traps deployed for snow leopard in Kyrgyzstan to monitor plant phenology
Multidecadal changes in land cover across a disturbance gradient in mountain grasslands of Kyrgyzstan
Under review – Using satellite imagery to map historical change in land cover types in Kyrgyzstan and identify the main drivers of change.
Sleeping like a marmot: identifying activity patterns of the gray marmot (Marmota baibacina) in Kyrgyzstan using camera traps
In preparation – Using camera traps deployed for snow leopard in Kyrgyzstan to obtain first assessment of gray marmot activity and link it to plant phenology modelled from the same camera trap dataset
Sketch to depict the documented changes in pastoral practices and land cover distribution over time the last century in Kyrgyzstan
Infographics to introduce field sites and study species | Green Lab
Poster to present the Green Lab at the University of Alberta
A cross-system approach
Arctic and alpine ecologist by training, but interested in all systems
While I am currently working as a part-time lab coordinator for the CHANGE Lab led by Professor Stephanie Green at the University of Alberta, I also am available as a science consultant. My interests remain in working with Indigenous communities, using a wide variety of methods to answer questions relating to community ecology, population assessments, spatial dynamics, phenology, data integration (and more) in socio-ecological systems. If you work on a project for which you are looking for collaborators and support, please reach out at
syoung3@ualberta.ca
