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CV

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EDUCATION

  • PhD in Environmental Sciences
Département des sciences de l'environnement, L'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
2011 – present

  • Master’s of Science in Biology
Département des Sciences Biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal
2008 – 2010.

  • Bachelor of Science Honours, with Honours in Biology
University of Regina
​May, 2005.

AWARDS AND HONOURS

  • US-IALE 2014 Conference Student Travel Award (2014)
  • FQRNT Bourse de doctorat en recherche (2012 – present)
  • NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship at doctoral level (2011 – 2012)
  • FQRNT Bourses de doctorat en recherche (2011; refused)
  • Alexander Graham Bell Canada Postgraduate Scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) 
  • Graduate Scholarship (2008-2009)
  • NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (2009-2010)
  • Environmental Youth Corp. Internship (Environmental Careers Organization of Canada)
  • Youth in Media-Action on Climate Change Video Production Scholarship (2004)
  • Thomas Holloway Scholarship, University of London, England (2004)
  • Northern Studies Training Program Research Award (2003)
  • Northern Research Institute Grant (2003)
  • Centennial Summer Student Award (2003)
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Industrial Postgraduate Scholarship (2003; refused)


PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed scientific publications:
  • I. Seiferling, N. Naik, R. L. Proulx, and C. Ratti. "Green Streets - Quantifying and mapping urban trees with street-level imagery and computer vision". (in submission)
  • I. Seiferling, R. L. Proulx, and C. Wirth. "Significance of Forest Diversity for the Community Phenology of European Forests". (in review)
  • R. Proulx, G. Rheault, L. Bonin, I. T. Roca, C. A. Martin, L. Desrochers, and I. S. Seiferling, “How much biomass can plant communities pack per unit volume?,” PeerJ Prepr., vol. 2, 2014.
  • I. Seiferling, R. L. Proulx, and C. Wirth, “Disentangling the environmental-heterogeneity-species-diversity relationship along a gradient of human footprint,” Ecology, vol. 95, no. 8, pp. 2084–2095, 2014.
  • R. Proulx, I. T. Roca, F. S. Cuadra, I. Seiferling, and C. Wirth, “A novel photographic approach for monitoring the structural heterogeneity and diversity of grassland ecosystems,” J. Plant Ecol., p. rtt065–, 2014.
  • Baeten, Lander, et al. "A novel comparative research platform designed to determine the functional significance of tree species diversity in European forests." Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics (2013).
  • I. S. Seiferling, R. Proulx, P. R. Peres-Neto, L. Fahrig, and C. Messier, “Measuring protected-area isolation and correlations of isolation with land-use intensity and protection status.,” Conserv. Biol., vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 610–8, Aug. 2012.
  • Seiferling, I. and M, Vetter. A 750-year Record of Forest Disturbance in the Southwest Yukon, Canada: Fire history and a new method to reconstruct forest disturbances using fossil stomata. The Northern Review. (Fall, 2006).
  • Seiferling, I. & M. Vetter. A 750-year Record of Forest Disturbance in the Southwest Yukon, Canada: Fire history and a new method to reconstruct spruce bark beetle infestations. 2006. 34th Annual International Arctic Workshop Proceedings, Boulder, CO.

Photographic and Image Publications:

  • Canadian Geographic collector's edition Best National Parks Pictures 2011. Saguenay–St. Lawrence Marine Park. 2011.
  • The Great Sand Hills Regional Environmental Study. Brochure and report photo images. 2006.