Current
MSc Student
Lily Boyd Bell
(they/them)
The Influence of Soil Properties Altered by Wildfire on Forest Recovery in Boreal Black Spruce Systems
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Lily Boyd Bell (they/them) grew up in Toronto and spent their summers in Algonquin Park and the Timiskaming region. They attended McMaster University, where they completed their BSc in Mathematics and Statistics, with a minor in Environmental Science. While at McMaster, Lily completed two undergraduate thesis projects, exploring the impacts of primary mathematics education on secondary-tertiary knowledge retention, and investigating the impacts of high severity wildfire on peatland ecosystems in northern Alberta.
Lily’s research takes place within the traditional territory of the Doig River First Nation near
Fort St. John. Lily aims to understand how wildfire, fire history, and soil conditions interact to influence regeneration, and how fire severity and return intervals in the black-spruce ecosystems of the boreal north have changed over time.