Raelani Kesler

Research Technician

email: raelani.kesler@ubc.ca

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Education

  • MSc – Soil Science, University of British Columbia (2022)
  • BSc – Environmental Science and Terrestrial Resource Management, University of Washington (2015)
  • AS – Biology, Edmonds Community College (2012)

Research Interests

  • Regenerative agriculture and sustainable soil management
  • Mitigation of agricultural impacts on climate change
  • Use of audiomedia in dissemination of scientific research
  • Historic First Nations agricultural practices and indigenous ways of knowing

Research

My Master’s project focused on on climate adaptation strategies for organic vegetable growers in B.C., investigating impacts of overwinter soil management strategies; fallow, tarped, and cover cropped. Currently, I coordinate the Vancouver Island winter vegetable variety trial and am the project lead developing the B.C. cover crop database.

Awards

  • Eburn Mills Graduate Scholarship, UBC, 2022
  • CF Bentley Oral Presentation Award – Honorable Mention, Canadian Society of Soil Science (CSSS), 2021
  • Noel Roddick Service Award, UBC, 2020
  • Mary and David Macaree Fellowship, UBC,  2020
  • Faculty of Land and Food Systems Graduate Award, UBC, 2020
  • Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters Scholarship, 2020
  • School of Environmental and Forest Science Scholarship, UW, 2014
  • Mary Gates Scholarship, UW, 2014