Kasey M. Stirling

Doctor of Philosophy in Science in Oceans and Fisheries | she/her/hers

Kasey is paternally Nłeʔkepmx, and maternally Mi’kmaq and Acadienne. She is a status member of the Lower Nicola Indian Band in Merritt, BC, though she was raised in Williams Lake, the traditional territory of the T’exelcemc Nation (Williams Lake First Nation, Secwepemc Peoples). She works in the Southern Interior of BC in partnership with Indigenous communities.

For her PhD work at the CIF, she is investigating the impacts of changing wildfire conditions on Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) genomics, as well as the history of the criminalisation of Indigenous cultural fire practices and its effects on how we understand wildfires today.

Previously, she worked in partnership with the First Nations Fisheries Legacy Fund for her MSc work with the CIF. That partnership produced the “Biocultural Indicator Manual: a guide for the development & implementation of biocultural indicator frameworks”.

Tim and Ann O’Riordan fellowship in Sustainable Development (UBC, 2023-2027)

NSERC PGSD (2026-2028)

NSERC Aquatic Sciences Supplement (2026)

BSc – Molecular Biology and Biochemistry – Simon Fraser University (2021)

MSc – Oceans and Fisheries Science – the University of British Columbia (2023)

Contact:

k.stirling[at]oceans.ubc.ca

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8257-9615 

ResearchGate:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kasey-Stirling