FFGG’S THREE MINUTE THESIS COMPETITION

This year, the Faculty of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics (FFGG), in collaboration with SSF, CEF, CRMR and CRDIG, is once again organizing the « Three minute thesis » faculty competition, to be held as part of Forest Science Week’s Student Research Day! This edition will take place in person, in the cafeteria of the Abitibi-Price pavilion, on March 18, 2024, starting at 5 p.m. Pizza and beverages will be sold on site.

Entertainment

The evening will be hosted by Alexandre Morin-Bernard, professor in the Department of Wood and Forest Sciences.

Participants

Come and cheer on the participants as they vie for the 3 cash prizes of $180 and the chance to represent the FFGG at the  Laval University  institutional competition! It’s up to you, the public, to vote for the People’s Choice Award!

          Our French-language participants :

• Liza Abid – Lignin: An Ecological Epic
• Sandra Abou Haidar – Cold plasma wood treatment: an innovative approach for a sustainable future
• Marie Alibert – Northern lakes in mutation!
• Dominic Bartolacci – Planting pits: aerated soil and dream trees
• Marius Le Maréchal – Biophysical carbon in urban environments: biophysical and socio-economic considerations
• Alex Mary – Here’s to biosourced adhesives!
• Élisabeth Petitclerc – Contribution to the Wemotaci Atikamekw integrated forest management plan
• Yassmine Zada – How to get water through culverts?
  Our English-speaking participants
• Vahideh Akbari – Let’s make the wood harder
• Sanjoy Roy – Evaluating ‘climate-smart silviculture’ for mitigating carbon emissions in the Balsam Fir-White Birch forests in Quebec under climate change
• Negar Shabanpour – Identifying urban human GHG-activities through place-based Textual content
• Danesh Shokri – Development of Innovative Geospatial Data Collection Technologies in Urban Intelligence and Mobility
• Varvara Vladimirova – Site fidelity in boreal caribou

      Teachers’ duel

Once again this year, two teachers will go head-to-head in the famous friendly teachers’ duel! They are Marc Gervais, professor in the Department of Geomatics, and Janani Sivarajah, professor in the Department of Wood and Forest Sciences. The same rules will apply as for the students in the competition. The public will be invited to vote.

See you on Monday, March 18!

MT180s FFGG Organizing Committee

Samuel TremblayHugo Noel and Samuel Tremblay, Semaine des sciences forestières (SSF)

Sauphie Senneville – Faculty of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics

Besma Bouslimi – Centre for Research on Renewable Materials

Marta Alonso Garcia – Centre for Forest Studies

Sonia Rivest – Faculty of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics

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