Katherine Standen Successfully Defends PhD Thesis!
Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Standen who very successfully defended her PhD thesis “Changes in plant community composition, structure, and function in response to permafrost thaw”!...
Dr. Baltzer Interviewed on Quirks and Quarks
Dr. Baltzer was interviewed on Quirks and Quarks about her recent publication on post-fire compositional change in boreal forests!...
Congratulations to Dr. Cory Wallace
Congratulations to Dr. Cory Wallace who recently defended his PhD thesis! Cory’s work focused on the drivers and implications of shrub expansion on the low arctic tundra. Cory’s next step is a postdoctoral fellowship at McMaster University focused on ecohydrological feedbacks of land cover chang...
Alexis Jorgensen Successfully Defends MSc Thesis!
Alexis Jorgensen successfully defended her MSc thesis which focused on the recovery of wildlife forage following wildfire in boreal forests of the Northwest Territories. Amazing job, Alexis!...
Katherine Standen Publishes 1st PhD Thesis Paper!
Katherine Standen published her first PhD thesis paper! The focus of this work is on the role of permafrost thaw on plant community composition and function in a boreal peatland undergoing rapid permafrost thaw. Congratulations, Katherine!...
Postdoctoral Fellow Raquel Alfaro Sanchez receives funding from the British Ecological Society
Dr. Alfaro Sánchez received funding to support the research project ‘Plasticity of dominant boreal conifers to warming temperatures and thawing permafrost.’ The British Ecological Society award will allow her to address physiological mechanisms of tree growth responses to climate warming in the...
Katie Black’s MSc thesis research on sap flow in tall tundra shrubs published in New Phytologist!
Katie Black spent two summers measuring sap flow and various other plant traits in green alder, a tall shrub species that is encroaching on open tundra due to climate warming. She was interested in drivers of shrub water use and it turns out permafrost thaw may play a pretty important role. Details ...
Check out the new Scotty Creek Forest Dynamics Plot papers!
We started mapping 10ha of boreal forest in 2012. More than 40,000 stems and a plot recensus later, the first papers are coming out of this work and showing how important forest demographic processes are in tehse permafrost peatland systems. Check out Dearborn et al. 2021 and Dearborn and Baltzer 20...
PhD student Kristen Bill awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship and the William Nikolaus Martin Scholarship!
Kristen’s PhD research is focused on community-based partnerships and community-driven questions surrounding the impacts that change in land cover will have on water quality for drinking water in the boreal forest region of the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada. These awards will support her res...
PhD Caitlyn Lyons receives NSERC CGS-D Scholarship!
Caitlyn is excited to have been awarded NSERC CGS-D to support her PhD research for the next 3 years. With this funding Caitlyn plans to study the response of boreal trees to permafrost thaw and their ability to capitalize on novel nutrient released from thaw processes in the Northwest Territories. ...