Profiles

Savanna is a Master’s student in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management and is a member of University of Waterloo's Water Institute. She completed her undergraduate degree in Environmental Sciences at McMaster University.

Her research focuses on peatland carbon cycling in the Kananaskis region of Alberta, examining how peatland ecosystems respond to harvesting disturbances. By assessing carbon transport through groundwater and atmospheric interactions, she aims to contribute to understandings of low elevation alpine peatlands in the Canadian Rockies. 

Myroslava is a biogeochemist with experience in terrestrial carbon cycling. In her work, she uses chamber and eddy covariance based methods to measure various components of ecosystem carbon fluxes and relates these to different environmental drivers using empirical modelling and statistics. She works closely with ecosystem modellers, providing them empirical data for model development and validation, and in turn uses their feedback to inform new experiments. She also works with colleagues who are experts in remote sensing, to find ways to improve our ability to estimate carbon emissions from remotely sensed data.

Myroslava’s research interests include improving our understanding of the impacts of land management practices and extreme weather events on soil and ecosystem greenhouse gas emissions. She is also interested in improving our understanding of various drivers of soil carbon emissions and in using that knowledge to improve process-based models of carbon turnover and remote-sensing-based models of carbon emissions. She has worked in boreal, temperate and oceanic climate zones.

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Eric is the project manager and technician for the alpine hydroclimatology (Kananaskis) project and the Ontario agriculture and vineyard projects. He is currently working on his MSc degree on alpine wetland evapotranspiration in Kananaskis. He is responsible for managing laboratory and field facilities across Ontario and Alberta, providing logistic support for projects and its members. He assists in the maintenance of the groups large network of Eddy Covariance Flux and Meteorological Towers and related environmental monitoring equipment, as well as processing flux and meteorological data.

Thomas research focuses on remediating the oil sands in Fort McMurray, and the relationship between soil and groundwater. His project focuses on a prototypical reconstructed lake and upland called Demonstration Pit Lake, studying the soil evolution, and predicting the effects of freeze-thaw cycles.

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Bronwyn holds a Masters in Geography and Environmental Management from the University of Waterloo. Her PhD research focuses on the role of phosphorus in influencing crop water use efficiency and carbon allocation in a balanced fertilized application program. She is also exploring how rising temperatures and increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations influence phosphorus requirements in crops to sustain yields. 

Tim has a diverse range of research interests completing a BSc (Hons) majoring in environmental science and marine biology at Griffith University in Gold Coast, Australia before attaining a MEnvSc from the University of Toronto, Canada looking at the uptake of Hg in constructed wetlands.  Currently his PhD research is looking at the hydrophysical properties of a constructed upland watershed as part of mine reclamation efforts in Alberta’s oil-sands region. The research focuses on hydrological budgets, hydro-connectivity, snowmelt and energy balance partitioning.

Abby holds a MSc in Environmental Sciences from University of British Columbia (Okanagan). Her PhD research focuses on the hydrological connectivity between upland forests and wetlands along the elevational gradients. She will also study how changes in connectivity of upland forests and wetlands affect the carbon emission in different elevational zones on the Kananaskis Mountain Water Futures project.

Jessica completed her MSc in Geography from the University of Waterloo. Her current research focuses on the spatial and temporal variability of evapotranspiration within vineyards in the Niagara growing region of Ontario. The aim of her research is to provide a more detailed look at how grapevines are using and losing water throughout various points of the vineyard, to allow growers to have a better understanding of crop water requirements and necessary management practices.

Rulan has a B.Sc. in Physical Geography and a certificate in GIS  from SFU, and an M.Sc. in Geography from UNBC. His PhD research focuses on investigating alpine forest hydrological processes using meteorological data and remote sensing. The goal is to upscale current evapotranspiration (ET) estimation from the hillslope to the river basin.