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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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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.