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    • Laurier PhD student Amber Buston-White awarded prestigious Weston Family Award in Northern Research

    Laurier PhD student Amber Buston-White awarded prestigious Weston Family Award in Northern Research

    Aug. 6, 2025
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    Amber completed her undergraduate degree in Geography
    in 2023 and is now a PhD student at Wilfrid Laurier
    University, working under the guidance of Dr. William
    Quinton in the Scotty Creek Research group. Amber
    began working as a research assistant at the Scotty Creek
    Research Station in 2022. The following spring and summer,
    she interned with the Łı́ ı́ dl̨ı̨ı Kų́ ę́ First Nation in Fort
    Simpson, Northwest Territories, where she collaborated
    with the Chief and Lands and Resources managers to
    co-develop a research project that was based around
    community concerns.


    She began an MSc exploring how wildfires impact wetland
    capture and subsequent movement of water. In 2024,
    shortly before being fast-tracked into the doctoral program,
    she received the Weston Family Awards in Northern
    Research at the master’s level.


    Amber’s doctoral research expands on this work by
    investigating how wildfires impact both energy and
    hydrological regimes, two interconnected systems critical
    to understanding landscape-scale responses to wildfire
    events in the north.

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