Starting fall of 2011, I will start a new position with the Canadian Forest Service. I am joining the Carbon Accounting Team in Victoria, BC. I am very much looking forward to being part of this productive and dynamic group lead by Dr. Werner Kurz.

   I spent my last year in Quebec working for the Ministry of Natural Resources and Wildlife. As their climate change adaptation and carbon modelling researcher, my main task was to provide research for policy development and support for adaptation of the province's forests to climate change, and to incorporate forest-carbon in the evolving forest landscape management of the province.

 

  Prior to accepting this position, I worked as a FQRNT postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Pierre Bernier at the Canadian Forest Service in Quebec city exploring cross-scale estimation and carbon modelling. My PhD is from the University of Montana in Missoula, MT, USA where I worked within the Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group (NTSG) under the supervision of Dr. Steven W. Running.  My PhD research looks at the effects of climate change on forests and explores our ability to accurately measure forest productivity. I was fortunate to spend time as a visiting researcher at Laval University in Dr. Hank Margolis' working group within the Canadian Carbon Program and through a short-term appointment, to work with the Canadian Forest Service's Carbon Accounting Team at the Pacific Forestry Centre in Victoria, BC.  During this last appointment I worked with Dr. Werner Kurz' team to complete the 2009 National Inventory Report on Green House Gas emissions for Canadian forests. I am now returning to this team as a research scientist.

  Prior to moving to Missoula for my PhD research, I established and ran a small consulting firm in Nelson, BC (Canada), specialized in quantitative issues related to forest ecosystem resources and dynamics. I have a Master's degree in Forest Biometrics from the University of British Columbia where I worked with Drs. Peter Marshall and Valerie LeMay.