Alpine Watershed Hydroclimatology Research Opportunities
Fully funded MSc and PhD studentships are open in the Canadian Rocky Mountains to examine autogenic feedbacks on wetland and forest evapotranspiration using a combination of eddy covariance, sapflow and porometry to relate canopy controls to hydrologic conditions and the resulting feedbacks to surface evaporation, plant productivity and water use efficiency; and test and refine evapotranspiration and CO2 exchange models capable of representing this flux from alpine wetlands and forests, which are often confounded by complex turbulent regimes.
Multiple Landuse Agricultural Basins: Ecohydrology
Fully funded MSc and PhD positions are available to examine the effects of management practices, soil conditions and climate on crop productivity and water use efficiency; and identify linkages between changing agricultural practices (4R's, residue management), regional hydrology and changing weather.
Use of Novel Technologies to Examine the Impacts of Climate Change on Viticulture in Southern Ontario
Fully funded MSc and PhD positions are available to use novel micrometeorological approaches and data mining and modelling techniques to infer the impacts of extreme weather on grape vine health, productivity and water-use at various temporal and spatial scales across Ontario.
Analysis of Peatland Carbon Cycling to Adjacent Disturbance and Development
Fully funded PhD and MSc positions are available that will collect new data in addition to existing archived data from alpine and boreal peatlands to estimate carbon stocks and sequestration from intact peatlands as well as under various land disturbance types, with the goal of determining the: (1) implications of conserving these peatlands; (2) impacts of current disturbances on C storage and sequestration; and (3) restoration opportunities and implications of restoration on C sequestration.
For more information on any of these opportunities, or the Hydrometeorology Research Group at the University of Waterloo, please contact Professor Richard Petrone (rpetrone@uwaterloo.ca)
