Coupland, Kathleen

Dr. Coupland’s role within the MGEM community is multifaceted. She is responsible for coordinating the day-to-day activities of the program and providing dedicated support to both students and the MGEM teaching team. She has been connected to UBC Forestry’s professional master’s programs since 2014 when she was a student in the Master of Sustainable Forest Management program, a sister program to MGEM.

Her research focuses on the application and development of novel classification schemes for forests, with an emphasis on quantifying non-timber forest values. Specifically, she has worked on quantifying the educational values in urban forests for forestry education, using UBC as a case study. This research utilized both quantitative and qualitative methods and included a LiDAR canopy analysis of every tree on the UBC campus.