Education
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Toronto Department of Physics (2018-Present)
MSc. in Physics, University of Toronto Department of Physics (2017-2018)
Joint Hons. B.Sc in Mathematical Physics, Simon Fraser University (2012-2017)
Publications
J. Velay-Vitow, W.R. Peltier (2020) “Out of the Ice-Age: Mega-Tides of the Arctic Ocean and the Bølling-Ållerød, Younger Dryas Transition” Geophysical Research Letters, e2020GL089870.
J. Velay-Vitow, W.R. Peltier, G. Stuhne (2020) “An investigation of the possibility of non-Laurentide ice stream contributions to Heinrich event 3” Quaternary Research 1-13. doi:10.1017/qua.2020.84
J. Velay-Vitow, W.R. Peltier, G. Stuhne (2020) “The Tides of the Glacial Ocean and their Possible Connection to Heinrich Event Instabilities of the Laurentide Ice Sheet” J.Geophys. Res Oceans 125, e2019JC015444
J. Velay-Vitow, A. DeBenedictis (2017) “Junction conditions for F(T) gravity from a variational principle” Phys. Rev. D 96, 024055
Honors and Awards
Academic
Graduate
Alexander Graham Bell Canadian Graduate Scholarship - $105,000 (2020-2023)
National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Walter C. Sumner Memorial Fellowship - $8,000 (2021)
Walter Sumner Foundation
Stan Paterson Scholarship in Canadian Glaciology - $2,500 (2021)
Canadian Geophysical Union
Tertia M.C. Hughes Memorial Graduate Student Prize - $500 (2021)
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Oskar Morgenstern Fellowship - $7,000 (2019, 2021)
The Mercatus Center
George Mason University
Don Lavoie Fellowship - $1,000 (Fall 2020)
The Mercatus Center
George Mason University
Cray Inc. Fellowship in Physics - $13,000 (2019-2020)
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
Conference Travel Grant - $1,100 (2019)
School of Graduate Studies
University of Toronto
Graduate Research Award (Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019)
Centre for Global Change Science
University of Toronto
Ontario Graduate Scholarship - $15,000 (2018-2019)
Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities
Undergraduate
Liberté Legacy Scholarship - $5,000 (2016-2017)
Liberté Legacy Foundation
Open Scholarship (Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017)
Simon Fraser University
Undergraduate Science Research Award for Physics - $3,500 (Summer 2015)
Department of Physics
Simon Fraser University
Ken Caple Entrance Scholarship - $3,500 (2013-2014)
Simon Fraser University
Teaching
Van Kranendonk Teaching Assistant Award - $100 (2020)
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
Service
Simon Fraser University Seniors Lifelong Learners Society Community Service Award - $1,000 (2017)
Simon Fraser University
Brendan Midgely and Joseph Stryjak Celebration of Life Award - $1,500 (2015)
Simon Fraser University
BIO
I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto studying paleoclimate and ice-ocean interactions. Outside of Academia, my interests are politics, martial arts, cooking, and running. I grew up on the West coast of Canada, just outside of Vancouver, and miss the easily accessible greenery and water.