Prior to my present position, I was a NSERC Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis (CCCma) working with Vivek K. Arora. At CCCma I began working with the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM) and the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS), work that I continue to this day. My research using CLASS-CTEM has focussed on aspects of the terrestrial carbon cycle as described on my Research page.
During 2010 and 2011, I was a post-doctoral researcher with Jed Kaplan at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Concurrently, I was a MITACS intern with ESSA Technologies Ltd. for the Future Forest Ecosystems Scientific Council (FFESC) project, Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Northwest Skeena Communities. During both positions I developed and applied terrestrial ecosystem models to investigate the influence of climate on terrestrial vegetation and the carbon cycle. During that time I also taught as a sessional instructor for the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences (SEOS) at the University of Victoria (CA). I hope to offer graduate level courses again sometime in the future.
I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Victoria (CA) with Michael Whiticar in 2010. During my Ph.D., I improved on a technique to measure the carbon stable isotope ratio of methane extracted from glacial ice. I then made stable isotope measurements across two abrupt climate transitions including the Younger Dryas - Preboreal transition. My thesis, Methane stable carbon isotope dynamics spanning the Last Deglaciation, is available here.
Before my Ph.D., I did an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science (minor in Chemistry) and a M.Sc. in Environmental Chemistry at the University of Calgary (CA). During my undergraduate I completed a research project on pesticide residues of urban water in Calgary. My M.Sc. research under Cooper Langford used nuclear magnetic relaxometry to investigate how heavy metals bind to organic matter in water. A PDF of my thesis, Probing Humics: New methods and new models, is available here.
Below is a slideshow of Påkitsoq, Greenland where I collected the ice samples measured during my Ph.D.
During 2010 and 2011, I was a post-doctoral researcher with Jed Kaplan at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Concurrently, I was a MITACS intern with ESSA Technologies Ltd. for the Future Forest Ecosystems Scientific Council (FFESC) project, Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Northwest Skeena Communities. During both positions I developed and applied terrestrial ecosystem models to investigate the influence of climate on terrestrial vegetation and the carbon cycle. During that time I also taught as a sessional instructor for the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences (SEOS) at the University of Victoria (CA). I hope to offer graduate level courses again sometime in the future.
I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Victoria (CA) with Michael Whiticar in 2010. During my Ph.D., I improved on a technique to measure the carbon stable isotope ratio of methane extracted from glacial ice. I then made stable isotope measurements across two abrupt climate transitions including the Younger Dryas - Preboreal transition. My thesis, Methane stable carbon isotope dynamics spanning the Last Deglaciation, is available here.
Before my Ph.D., I did an undergraduate degree in Environmental Science (minor in Chemistry) and a M.Sc. in Environmental Chemistry at the University of Calgary (CA). During my undergraduate I completed a research project on pesticide residues of urban water in Calgary. My M.Sc. research under Cooper Langford used nuclear magnetic relaxometry to investigate how heavy metals bind to organic matter in water. A PDF of my thesis, Probing Humics: New methods and new models, is available here.
Below is a slideshow of Påkitsoq, Greenland where I collected the ice samples measured during my Ph.D.
