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The combined action of uplift and erosion brings bedrock toward Earth’s surface. As it approaches, weathering liberates nutrients and generates porosity, creating voids where infiltrating precipitation becomes stored and accessible to plants. Our work seeks to understand the consequences of weathering—which can extend deep into the bedrock that underlies hillslopes—for water storage, runoff, erosion and ecosystem processes, and how and why weathering profiles vary across landscapes. We look across gradients of rock type, climate, and biomes, thereby turning landscapes into natural laboratories for scientific study. This approach results in transdisciplinary studies that integrate concepts from the fields of hydrology, geomorphology, and plant ecophysiology.
Introduction to the hydrologic cycle, with an emphasis on the hydrology of British Columbia.
Typically offered every fall semester.
Course outline
Interdisciplinary exploration of the interactions between plants and hydrologic processes, with an emphasis on primary literature.
Typically offered in spring semesters.
Course outline
Research design, data collection and quantitative methods in physical geography.
Typically offered every fall semester.
Course outline
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Assistant Professor (January, 2020 - present), Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University
Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University
Christine Leclerc is an undergraduate in Physical Geography at Simon Fraser University and an NSERC-USRA award recipient. She has received support from SFU’s Faculty of Environment and the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions to train overseas in the area of climate policy. In 2019, Leclerc attended UN Climate Change’s COP25 event to help advance climate literacy. In 2020, Leclerc was selected to present on the reversibility of climate change at the SFU Undergrad Research Symposium. She is interested in earth system response to climate forcing and tools to improve policy-maker ability to protect long-term environmental resource availability. As part of Dr. Hahm’s hydrology lab, Leclerc co-investigates controls on surface flow and stream network response to change in precipitation regime.
Environmental Science, Simon Fraser University
Sijin is an undergraduate environmental science student at Simon Fraser University. As an honours student, she is working with Jesse to investigate the relationship between subsurface water storage and plant productivity. She also developed field sampling and laboratory analysis skills by working at a research centre under Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Her research interests lie in exploring how computing techniques such as Google Earth Engine and Python can be applied in geology and environmental science.Dr. Dana Lapides, Research Assistant
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.