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Congrats to new MSc, Tyler Prentice!!

January 31, 2020
Yesterday Hydromet team member Tyler Prentice successfully defended his MSc thesis! Congrats Tyler, great work! Tyler's thesis focused on the reclamation of boreal forests following oil sands operations in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Specifically, his research aimed to determine how interactions between vegetation and soil are influenced by the cover soil used at the start of the reclamation process. His fieldwork involved monitoring soil moisture and nutrient regimes throughout the growing season at several reclaimed sites within the Athabasca Oil Sands Region spending summer field season... Read more about Congrats to new MSc, Tyler Prentice!!