Past FRESH members are part of the lab research record; this page focuses on public, current, and approved alumni information.
Elaheh Ghasemi
Past postdoctoral researcher
Elaheh Ghasemi was a postdoctoral researcher in FRESH with a background in industrial engineering, supply-chain management, and decision-support modelling.
Her FRESH work contributed to nature-based decarbonization modelling for the mining and forest sectors and to applied machine-learning workflows for drone seeding microsite classification.
Her research record includes project work on forest-sector supply chains, production planning, inventory, distribution, and transportation decisions.
Salar Ghotb was a postdoctoral researcher in FRESH whose work contributed to forest-sector systems modelling and applied decision support.
His FRESH work included modelling the forest-based biomass solution space in British Columbia and project contributions connected to drone seeding microsite classification and forestry decarbonization modelling.
Valentine Lafond was a postdoctoral researcher and research associate in FRESH, with expertise in forest ecology, forest modelling, and decision-support systems.
Her FRESH work included climate-adaptation and pest-mitigation decision support, including the commercial thinning and diverse-planting analysis published in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
Rosalia Jaffray completed MASc work in FRESH on forest harvesting operational planning, operations research, and open-source machine scheduling.
Her thesis developed and evaluated FHOPS, the Forest Harvesting Operations Planning System, as a reproducible framework for forest operations planning experiments.
Rosalia's background combines forest operations, engineering, harvesting systems, and practical interest in decision-support tools for forest operations.
Yancun (Walter) Yan completed MSc work on mathematical modelling to simulate and optimize climate-change mitigation potential in British Columbia's forest sector.
His work linked forest ecosystem carbon, harvested wood products, timber supply, and optimization methods in an integrated modelling framework.
Walter's background includes forestry, ecology, programming, mathematical modelling, and geospatial analysis.
Jinming (Jimmy) Ke completed MSc work on system-level climate impact assessment for forest management, fertilization, harvested wood products, and substitution pathways.
His thesis addressed the connection between forest carbon management and product carbon management by tracking carbon flows from forest management through harvested wood product use and eventual emissions.
Jimmy's modelling work used transparent Python workflows to support reproducible assessment of climate-smart forest management scenarios.
Xin Jia (Bridget) Guo was an undergraduate intern in FRESH working on ecosystem modelling and statistical analysis.
They completed a B.Sc. in Natural Resources Conservation and brought experience in coding, data analysis, and data manipulation from a co-op term with the Ministry of Forests.
Xin Jia (Bridget) contributed to FRESH modelling work connected to hemlock dwarf mistletoe spread.
Dawson Isbister joined FRESH as a SEED2STEM intern in Summer 2025.
His internship contributed to lab and field projects connected to forestry education, applied research, and the development of learning activities for senior undergraduate forestry students.
