Members

Dr. Maria Strack (Professor)

Dr. Nicole Balliston (PDF): Hydrologic controls on peatland C storage and GHG exchange

Maryam Bayatvarkeshi (PDF): Effect of seismic lines on water balance at local to watershed scales

Noah Boss (PhD candidate): Climate change effects on peatland GHG dynamics

Melanie Bird (PhD candidate): Data compilation to assess peatland response to restoration and reclamation

Sandani Buddhima (MSc candidate): Local controls on landfill methane emissions

Chinonso Chris-Emenyonu (PhD candidate)Plant communities and carbon exchange in restored Manitoba fens

Tasha-Leigh Gauthier (PhD candidate) - co-supervised with Jon Price: Functional traits of restored peatland mosses

Henry Gibbons (MSc candidate): Assessing seismic line restoration methods in northeastern BC

Miranda Hunter (PDF): Controls on GHG exchange in Canadian peatlands

Kim Kleinke (Project manager) - Can-Peat: Canada's peatlands as nature-based climate solutions

Rayden Laliberte (MSc candidate): Effect of salinity on GHG emissions from stormwater management ponds

Carissa MacKenzie (PhD candidate): Effect of linear disturbance on plant communities and carbon cycling in peatlands

Megan Schmidt (PhD candidate): Carbon exchange in temperate swamps in Ontario

Nazia Tabassum (PhD candidate): Effect of seismic line disturbance and restoration on ecosystem C storage

Yimeng Wang (PhD candidate): Productivity tradeoffs between trees and bryophytes in peatlands

Akshara Withanage (PhD candidate): GHG emission reductions through best management practices for peatland development

Justin Yu (MSc candidate): A reference data set to assess swamp reclamation outcomes in Alberta

See lab alumni.