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Climate, Oceans, and Paleo-Environments (COPE) Lab

Dr. Karen Kohfeld

The COPE lab's objective is to understand changes in the earth system on geological and historical time scales and to relate these changes to regionally important impacts, ranging from carbon cycling to extreme weather events and regional ecosystem responses.  The lab's interdisciplinary group integrates ideas from climatology, meteorology, paleo-oceanography, paleo-ecology, Earth System Science and modeling, and geochemistry. Dr. Kohfeld鈥檚 recent graduate students have focused on understanding changes in sea-ice concentrations (and its impact on ocean circulation) in the Southern Ocean over the past 300,000 years, understanding modern carbon sequestration in coastal ecosystems (seagrasses and salt marshes) in Canada, and changes in ecosystem development and fire frequencies over the past 10,000 years in British Columbia.

Integrated Watershed Science Lab (IWSL)

Dr. Brendan Murphy, Dr. Chelsea Little, Dr. Shawn Chartrand

The IWSL works towards understanding watershed processes in the present and predicting how they may change in response to natural and anthropogenic influences, like climate change.

For more information, please contact any of the PIs listed above.

The Joy Lab

Dr. Ruth Joy

The Joy Laboratory focuses on developing and implementing novel statistical and mathematical methodologies for analyzing ecological data for conservation and restoration of habitat. Current projects include:

• Genetics of the Coastal Population
• Automated Detection of Whale Vocalizations
•  Cormorants Nesting on Urban Bridges
• Hooded Seal Biologging Project in collaboration with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and La Rochelle Universit茅 (France): Investigating the impacts of melting sea ice on ecology and food accessibility

Dr. Chelsea Little

The Little Ecology Group studies how communities of organisms assemble, the interactions between organisms of similar and different trophic groups, and how their traits contribute to ecosystem function. Their work also considers how ecosystems are connected by exchanges of organisms and materials, and how these exchanges affect the functioning of recipient ecosystems.

Current Projects:

•  The Little Ecology Group is contributing towards understanding biodiversity and carbon cycling in agricultural landscapes

Other Projects Dr. Little is Involved in:

• : 鈥淚mpacts of climate and recreation on Coast Mountains flora, fauna, and ecosystems鈥�. This is a multi-institutional project, with Dr. Little as a co-lead, along with Dr. Courtney Collins (EVSC adjunct professor).
• Riparian Corridors for Wildlife: 鈥淓xploring how riparian buffers can enhance wildlife connectivity in an increasingly fragmented world鈥�. For more information on this project, please contact Dr. Little.

Dr. Brendan Murphy

The Murphy Watershed Science Lab's work combines principles and techniques from geomorphology, hydrology, and ecology to improve our understanding of how variability and disturbances in natural and anthropogenic processes influence watersheds and their natural resources.

River Dynamics Research Group

Dr. Jeremy Venditti

The River Dynamics Laboratory is comprised of a flume facility where we model river channel processes, a computing space used for data analysis and morphodynamic modelling and a sediment analysis laboratory. We also maintain a research vessel for work on coastal rivers, deltas and the shallow water coastal environments.

Dr. Shawn Chartrand

The Rivers, Landscapes and Environmental Change Lab members follow their curiosities and explore questions and problems that fall within the broad topic of Earth and Planetary Surface Processes. They bridge geophysics, geomorphology, hydrology and applied math in conducting their research, which commonly applies a variety of methods from fieldwork to laboratory experiments.