FluxLab People

	Dave Risk, PhD. Dave is interested in applied projects related to gas movement and emission from the surface. He has been involved in a wide range of projects related to gas monitoring, isotopes, and carbon management in forests, wetlands, and industry. Dave works with partners inside and outside of the academic environment. CV
	Claire Phillips, PhD Claire hails most recently from Oregon where she completed her PhD with Barbara Bond. Her interests relate to daily dynamics of soil respiration, carbon flow from plants to soils, and non-steady-state processes. We have been hatching ideas for some time with Claire - and are extremely happy that she's come to join the group!
	Evelise Bourlon, PhD Evelise, from SeisMap Consulting Inc, brings excellent expertise to our collaborative projects. She is frequently here working directly with Dave, Chance, and others on Monitoring Network Design projects - for Northern Canada and Carbon Capture and Storage sites.
	Nick Nickerson, PhD Cand. Nick has worked largely on projects related to isotopic gas transport, with creative mechanistic modeling of interactions between measurement instruments and the natural environments they are designed to measure. Much of this modeling work is now been done using ACENET supercomputing clusters and with international collaborators.
	Jen Owens, Research Associate. Hailing most recently from Waterloo-Laurier, Jen has a diverse background which includes experience in the fields of geomatics, biology, ecology and biogeochemistry. Her most recent research has been focused on the hydrological controls of GHG emissions from riparian soils.
	Gordon McArthur, MSc Cand. Gordon is now a veteran member of the Flux Lab, and is working on projects related to the FluxSolve technology. He has an undergraduate degree in chemistry and has a wide range of extra-science interests including communications, business development and intellectual property management - not to mention ethical foie gras.
	Chance Creelman, MSc Cand. Chance brings new skills and experience to the Flux Lab. He is especially interested in the development and application of computational tools for tackling problems in Earth Science. Chance's background includes majors in Physics, Math/Stats/Computer Science, and Economics.
	Kelsey O'Brien, BSc cand. During 2009, and again this summer as part of the North American Soil Geochemical Landscapes Project, Kelsey has been measuring soil Radon in Halifax Regional Municipality with Terry Goodwin and others at Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources. She has extended her undergraduate project to grad work - still with Dave - but under the primary supervision of Dr. Daniel Rainham at Dalhousie, who holds the Elizabeth May Chair in Sustainability and Environmental Health.
	Jocelyn Egan, BSc cand. Jocelyn seems like she's been around here a long time, but hasn't. She's bitten off a complex project - to help assemble a soil diffusion-chamber system for continuous isotopic monitoring of soil emissions, and to apply it in a tracer study. Jocelyn will be carrying out field experiments this summer at a location to be announced.
	Chris MacIntyre, BSc cand. Chris is our budding instruments guy, and enrolled in the StFX Environmental Sciences Program. A native of Antigonish, his on-the-job is training on instrumentation will allow him to lend increasing support to our experimental projects.
	Nicole Louiseize, BSc cand. Hailing from Moncton, Nicole is an Aquatic Resources student interested in physical processes and...well...water. This summer she will be instrumenting a long-term wetland monitoring site, and will study the effects of wetland hydrology on methane emissions.
	Emily Burns, BSc cand. Typically, soil respiration is a hidden component of GCM output, bound up with vegetation in overall land flux values. But, for soil scientists interested in spatial patterns and/or past or future of soil stocks, GCMs provide important potential insight into these processes. Emily is working with output from various models, and directly running UVic GCM simulations. Her project is doing this work primarily under supervision of Alvaro Montenegro. On an important sidenote, Emily would like to devote her life to studies of the Bo-Real region.
	Christian Hart, BSc cand. Christian is working on several mathematical and computational projects, including a new derivation of analytical solutions describing isotope transport. He is also working on continuous soil CO2 datasets (from us and elsewhere) for wavelet analysis. There aren't many datasets of this type out there, and this analysis will help determine how soil efflux and its drivers are related on a variety of temporal scales. Chistian's middle name is Jan, but nobody thinks this is strange except for him.
	Sara Klapstein, BSc cand. Sara is the only member of the lab who grew up in Antigonish. She conducted research on soil organic matter decomposition dynamics using substrate mobilization experiments. While she finds herself out in Guelph and Alaska working with Dr. Merritt Turetsky, she continues to lend some expertise to follow-up projects.

Former and/or Dead Members
Former members of this research group (and its earlier incarnations) include Jim Holmes, Eugene MacDonald (who will be back here some day - we know it somehow), Kathleen Rankin, Julie MacDonald, Frank Webb, Mike MacDougall, Christie Spry, Andrew MacDougall. Thanks everyone!!!