Bryant M. Serre
M.Sc. Candidate of Natural Resource Sciences.
Research Interests: Landscape Ecology, Scale in Ecology, Ecotoxicology, Environmental Philosophy
The issue of scale in ecology continues to be important in building the link between ecological patterns to process. Interacting with scale tripartite (incl. temporality, spatial extent, and resolution) Bryant's research under the supervision of Dr. Cardille focuses on how we evaluate and rationalize the appropriate scales to study any set of ecological processes. His work contributes to the larger discourse of the “science of scale”.
Bryant M. Serre is a LEED AP ND/BD+C., WELL AP., EPt., GISP., CIFD., and holds a B.A in Environmental Studies, where he wrote a monograph on the limitations to scaling dynamics of landscape metrics with hyper-spectral imagery, suggesting that there exists a threshold between the mathematical formulas and environmental context that determine scaling trends. He is a lab alumnus of inter alia the i) Urban Water Research Group (UWRG), ii) The Great Lakes Institute of Environmental Research (GLIER), and iii) the Miner’s Canary Ecotoxicology lab; at McGill, he hopes to mobilize his diverse research background to the multidisciplinary field of landscape and computational ecology in the Cardille Lab. His past work involved creating a parcel-level stormwater calculator for tax levees in the City of Toronto; measuring how farming practices contributed to phosphorus loading in 626 sub-watersheds across southern Ontario; and most recently determining the sustainability of land-applying biosolids on terrestrial and aquatic organisms.
Outside of academia, Bryant is a sculptor and cyanotypologist. He has worked as a sustainability consultant for urban development companies since 2017 on construction projects and on devising green building standards (i.e. TGS v2; City of Guelph GBS) with jurisdictions across North America. To date, he has acted as an anonymous science-writer on 17 papers, textbook chapters and he is finalizing a book on The Risk Assessment of ESOCs in Biosolids along with collaborators from Ryerson University, Rice University, the USEPA, and Environment Canada.
Current Project: His thesis involves developing a data product that reflect adequate scales for analysis of landscape composition and configuration, as part of a larger project to understand "how scale is rationalized with, assigned, and assessed in Landscape Ecology". His thesis is structured into several incremental projects, with objectives of i) backgrounding the various methods in use to determine the appropriate scale for a landscape ecology inquiry; ii) to showcase the variability in scale as contingent on methodology, and iii) to contribute to the philosophical rhetoric on scale in ecology.
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Research Interests: Landscape Ecology, Scale in Ecology, Ecotoxicology, Environmental Philosophy
The issue of scale in ecology continues to be important in building the link between ecological patterns to process. Interacting with scale tripartite (incl. temporality, spatial extent, and resolution) Bryant's research under the supervision of Dr. Cardille focuses on how we evaluate and rationalize the appropriate scales to study any set of ecological processes. His work contributes to the larger discourse of the “science of scale”.
Bryant M. Serre is a LEED AP ND/BD+C., WELL AP., EPt., GISP., CIFD., and holds a B.A in Environmental Studies, where he wrote a monograph on the limitations to scaling dynamics of landscape metrics with hyper-spectral imagery, suggesting that there exists a threshold between the mathematical formulas and environmental context that determine scaling trends. He is a lab alumnus of inter alia the i) Urban Water Research Group (UWRG), ii) The Great Lakes Institute of Environmental Research (GLIER), and iii) the Miner’s Canary Ecotoxicology lab; at McGill, he hopes to mobilize his diverse research background to the multidisciplinary field of landscape and computational ecology in the Cardille Lab. His past work involved creating a parcel-level stormwater calculator for tax levees in the City of Toronto; measuring how farming practices contributed to phosphorus loading in 626 sub-watersheds across southern Ontario; and most recently determining the sustainability of land-applying biosolids on terrestrial and aquatic organisms.
Outside of academia, Bryant is a sculptor and cyanotypologist. He has worked as a sustainability consultant for urban development companies since 2017 on construction projects and on devising green building standards (i.e. TGS v2; City of Guelph GBS) with jurisdictions across North America. To date, he has acted as an anonymous science-writer on 17 papers, textbook chapters and he is finalizing a book on The Risk Assessment of ESOCs in Biosolids along with collaborators from Ryerson University, Rice University, the USEPA, and Environment Canada.
Current Project: His thesis involves developing a data product that reflect adequate scales for analysis of landscape composition and configuration, as part of a larger project to understand "how scale is rationalized with, assigned, and assessed in Landscape Ecology". His thesis is structured into several incremental projects, with objectives of i) backgrounding the various methods in use to determine the appropriate scale for a landscape ecology inquiry; ii) to showcase the variability in scale as contingent on methodology, and iii) to contribute to the philosophical rhetoric on scale in ecology.
