Carter Kuiper

Carter successfully defended his MSc in the Department of Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta in April 2025. He holds a BSc in Environmental and Conservation Sciences, a BA in Native Studies, and a Certificate of Sustainability from the University of Alberta.

During his time as an undergraduate student, Carter spent time as a Research Assistant in the Department of Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of Alberta, analyzing the accuracy of low-cost air sensors in response to wildfire smoke. He has also spent a summer working as a student intern at Indigenous Services Canada in the Environment Directorate using GIS applications to map abandoned railways and historical locations of Indian Residential Schools on Reserves across Canada.
 
Carter’s MSc thesis integrated socioeconomic factors of vulnerability with the Landscape Fire Exposure Metric to assess telecommunications vulnerabilities to wildfire. The first of two manuscripts from that work is accessible as a preprint here:

Kuiper, C and Beverly, JL (in review) Assessing Telecommunication Vulnerabilities to Wildfire in Alberta, Canada. Submitted to the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, January 2025. 

Carter is now working as a Research Associate with Wildfire Analytics, leading applications of our exposure and directional vulnerability assessments in support of Indigenous Fire Management. Carter's  research interests remain focused on  integrating socioeconomic factors of vulnerability with our biophysical wildfire assessments to identify communities in Canada that are vulnerable to wildfire and support them to  effectively respond and recover in the event of a wildfire.