2017
Dr. Jean L. Polfus
PhD in Natural Resources and Environment Management for “An Interdisciplinary Approach to Describing Biological Diversity”

2014
Dr. Camille Partin
PhD in Geological Sciences for “On the evolution of atmosphere-ocean oxygenation and plate tectonic process as recorded in Paleoproterozoic sedimentary basins”

2013
Dr. Aaron Lussier
PhD in Geological Sciences for “Zonation in Tourmaline from Granitic Pegmatites & The Occurrence of Tetrahedrally coordinated Aluminum and Boron in Tourmaline”

2012
Dr. Monika Pućko
PhD in Geography for “The Effect of Atmosphere-Snow-Ice-Ocean Coupling on Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) Pathways Within the Arctic Marine Environment”

2009
Dr. Ian Mauro
PhD in Geography for “Riding the risk wave: farmer knowledge and experience with GM crops in the Canadian prairies”

2008
Dr. CJ Mundy
PhD in Geography for “Scale Dependent Forcing on Ice Algae Dynamics: Observations and Modelling”

2007
Dr. Gregory McCullough
PhD in Geography for “Circulation of Terrestrial Runoff and its Suspended Load in a Large Tropical Lake: A study of Processes and Effects Near the Mouth of the Linthipe River in Lake Malawi”

2006
Dr. Melissa Marschke
PhD in Natural Resources and Environmental Management for “Livelihood in context: learning with Cambodian fishers”

2004
Dr. Iain Davidson-Hunt
PhD in Natural Resources and Environmental Management for “Journeys, plants and dreams : adaptive learning and social-ecological resilience”