Graduate students

MSc Candidates

Research Statement & Supervisor(s)

Hayden Amidon

R. Hamme

Aarti Sharma

E. Nissen

Peter Blenman

Peter Blenman

Assessing the feasibility of satellite radar interferometry for detecting tertiary ground movement prior to landslide activity.

E. Nissen
A. Schaeffer

Becky Brooks


J. Gemmrich
J. Klymak

Emily Cross

Emily Cross

A. Fraass
V. Arbour

Jamie Daniel


J. Gemmrich
J. Klymak

Kiri Daust

A. Monahan

Teague Dickson

V. Arbour
B. Dyer

Kristina Disney

Developing community-based monitoring to derive the groundwater contribution to tributaries of the Koksilah watershed under low flow conditions.

T. Gleeson

Yuzhe Gan

D. Canil

Pandora Gibb

Biogeochemistry of Northeast Pacific seamounts.

J. Dower
D. Ianson

Chet Goerzen

Developing unsupervised machine learning techniques for seismology.

S. Dosso
H. Kao

El Hobson


J. Dower
C. Stevens

Carmen Holmes-Smith

Investigating patterns between extreme run-up and the offshore wave field with the aim of developing a better forecasting system for wave hazards in Tofino, B.C.

J. Gemmrich
J. Klymak

Liam Hubbert

Testing recently developed biochemical methods of quantifying population-level secondary production in the oceans.

A. Sastri
J. Dower

Ben Kumpf

Using text-mining and machine learning to evaluate salinity changes across the Phanerozoic.

L. Coogan
J. Husson

Daniel Labbé

Seamount effects on zooplankton ecology in the Northeast Pacific.

A. Sastri
J. Dower

Tess Leishman

J. Cassidy
S. Dosso

Katherine Martin

M. Eby
A. Weaver

Gerri McEwen

S. Johnston
D. Canil

Kai MorsinkKai Morsink

L. Coogan
B. Dyer

Megumi Patchett

L. Leonard
T. Hobbs

Robert Payne

 A. Monahan

Anna Podhorodeski

L. Leonard

Fateme Salehi

A. Monahan

Nadiya Shorenadiyashore

Modelling extreme climate events with machine learning techniques.

A. Monahan

Jade Skye

J. Melton
C. Goldblatt

Matthew Stephens

J. Husson

Lauryn Talbot

J. Klymak
T. Ross

Katie Withrow

Katie Withrow

Geotherms and the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary of the Canadian Cordillera.

D. Canil

Carmen Wu

S. Dosso
B. Halliday

Karlee Zammit

B. Halliday
S. Dosso

Meghan Zee

Meghan Zee

Hydrothermal trace metal dispersion in plumes along the Juan de Fuca Ridge.

J. Cullen

PhD Candidates

Research Statement & Supervisor(s)

Tia Anderlini

Distributions of iron and other trace metals in the Eastern Arctic and Subarctic.

J. Cullen

Mariana Barbosa Ferreira Alves

S. Dosso
B. Halliday

Madison Bombardier

Episodic tremor and slip events in the Cascadia subduction zone.

S. Dosso
J. Cassidy

Connor Brierly-Green

 L. Leonard
T. James

Jia-Xuan Chang

Study of energy of internal waves in the ocean .

J. Klymak

Ruth Digby

Ruth Digby

Climate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A. Monahan
N. Gillett

Patrick Duke

Air-sea carbon fluxes in the Northeast Pacific.

R. Hamme
D. Ianson

Stacey Edmonsond

Stacey Edmonsond

Lateral expression of carbon isotope excursions in shallow-marine carbonate environments.

B. Dyer

Endo Kota

A. Monahan

Patrick Farnole

Modelling marine ecosystem & fisheries impacts in the changing Arctic Ocean.

A. Monahan
N. Steiner

Camille Febvre

Camille Febvre

Interactions between ecosystem characteristics and climate.

C. Goldblatt
R. El-Sabaawi

Theron Finley

Theron Finley

Studying active crustal faults in western Canada using remote sensing, seismology, geodesy, and field investigations.

E. Nissen
J. Cassidy

Daniel Garduño Ruiz

Photochemistry-climate interactions and their implications for biogeochemistry during the Proterozoic.

C. Goldblatt

Moronke Harris

Moronke Harris

Hydrothermal vent microbial landscape modelling for the sustainable development of deep-sea sulphide mining.

K. Juniper

Kyle Heyblom

Improving the detectability of the effect of climate change on the atmospheric hydrological cycle using water isotope ratios.

H. Singh

Julia Horne

Quantifying atmospheric, crustal, and mantle interactions using integrated biogeochemical models of earth systems.

C. Goldblatt

Katie Jamson

Katie Jamson

Investigating the influence of space on the production, diversification, deposition, and preservation of calcareous and siliceous microfossil groups in the Cenozoic geological record.

A. Fraass

Simin Kheradmand

Simin Kheradmand

Conducting a comprehensive investigation into the significant factors influencing oxygen levels and utilizing Argo Float data to estimate oxygen concentrations in the North Pacific Ocean.

R. Hamme

Johanna Länger

Air-Sea carbon fluxes in the Arctic Ocean.

N. Steiner
A. Monahan

Jerry Lei

Interpretation of Triassic marine paleoenvironments primarily utilizing carbon isotope chemostratigraphy, conodont biostratigraphy, and lithostratigraphy of carbonate rocks.

J. Husson

Michaela Maier

Drivers of deoxygenation on the continental shelf in the Northern California Current System.

R. Hamme
D. Ianson

Ameneh Mollasharifi Targhi

Ameneh Mollasharifi Targhi

A. Monahan

Juliana Moron

B. Halliday
S. Dosso

Matthew Miller

Matt Miller

Biological Oceanography; Re-assessing the impact of ocean acidification on pteropods in the NE Pacific.

J. Dower
D. Ianson

Rebecca Morris

Quantifying magma-carbonate interactions from exposed crustal sections of the Jurassic Bonanza arc.

D. Canil

Fatemeh Nemati

Modeling of landslide-generated tsunamis in Georgia Strait, southern British Columbia, Canada.

L. Leonard

Xin Qiao

Interactions between climate and tectonics: Cenozoic exhumation history of Vancouver Island.

D. Canil
R. Jiao

Guy Salomon

Guy Salomon

Using tectonic geomorphology to better understand the faults on Vancouver Island.

E. Nissen

Hannah Robutka

Hannah Robutka

Iron fluxes and transport from mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal vent systems using geochemistry and bulk magnetic properties.

L. Coogan

Israporn Sethanant

Grace Sethanant

Paleoearthquakes, active faults, and tectonics of the Eastern California Shear Zone (ECSZ) and Southeast Asia, using tectonic geomorphology, photogrammetry, and InSAR techniques.

E. Nissen

Raj Suruli Nagarajan

raj suruli nagarajan

Optimization of the Canadian Land Surface Model.

C. Seiler
A. Monahan

Fengzhou Tan

Fengzhou Tan

Improving automatic earthquake detection and loction methods in artificial intelligence techniques; earthquakes sequence observation and analysis; earthquake rupture imaging using Back Projection method.

H. Kao
E. Nissen

Connor Van Wieren

Connor Vanwieren

Quantifying early carbon cycle dynamics in the Neoproterozoic using isotope geochemistry of marine carbonates.

J. Husson
B. Dyer

Siyu Wang

Siyu Wang

Secular variations of rock uplift rates in the northern Tian Shan (China), using InSAR time series analysis, thermochronology and numerical modelling.

R. Jiao
E. Nissen

Xi Wang

R. Jiao

Matthew Wilson

N. Gillett
A. Monahan

Yijie Zhu

Yijie Zhu

K. Wang
E. Nissen