Emma Holmes, MSc Student
Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Upon completion of her undergraduate degree in the Global Resource Systems Program, Emma enrolled in the Soil Science Graduate Program at UBC. Emma developed an interest in soil science after spending a summer as a farm apprentice on Saltspring Island, and became further hooked after taking APBI 200 and APBI 402. Emma received an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award for the summer of 2009, and is working with the Soil, Water, Air Lab research group at UBC under supervision of Dr. Les Lavkulich.