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We explore the fascinating region that lies between the top of the vegetation canopy and fresh, chemically unaltered bedrock, which plays a pivotal role in sustaining life. Our research focuses on deep weathering processes, subsurface structure, and water dynamics, as well as the contribution of bedrock water storage to plant transpiration and the relationship between topography and bedrock weathering.
Our team and colleagues employ a range of techniques, including remote sensing, field-deployed sensors, deep drilling, downhole logging, and chemistry and porosity characterization, to study weathering fronts and water storage in hilly landscapes. We also develop conceptual frameworks to explore the temporal variability of stream networks and to understand how integrated catchment runoff generation mechanisms result in streamflow age distributions at the outlet. Ultimately, our research aims to enhance predictions of stream water availability and forest health, thereby informing water management practices.
An overview of the processes that control water supply to natural ecosystems and human civilization. Hydrologic cycle, floods, droughts, groundwater. Patterns of water use, threats to water quality, effects of global climate change on future water supplies. Water issues facing British Columbia. Breadth-Science.
Typically offered in fall terms.
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Introduction to the hydrologic cycle, with an emphasis on the hydrology of British Columbia.
Typically offered every fall term.
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Interdisciplinary exploration of the interactions between plants and hydrologic processes, with an emphasis on primary literature.
Typically offered every spring term.
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Research design, data collection and quantitative methods in physical geography.
Typically offered in fall terms.
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Contact Jesse to learn about opportunities (whahm (at) sfu.ca).
Assistant Professor (January, 2020 - present), Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University
Fosco Salvado Ferrer (visiting MSc student from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)
Dylan Alexander (undergraduate honours thesis student)
Robert Ehlert (MSc student)
Mantek Aulakh Singh (USRA scholar)
Berit Hudson Rasmussen (Mitacs Globalink Fellow Visiting PhD student from UT Austin)
Dana Lapides (Postdoc)
Christine Leclerc (USRA scholar)
Sijin Chen (undergraduate honours thesis)
We are located in Robert C. Brown Hall atop beautiful Burnaby Mountain in British Columbia, Canada. We acknowledge that we live and work on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.