Current Graduate Students

Alyssa Moller
MSc

alyssa_moller@sfu.ca

Supervisor: Shawn Chartrand

Research Area: Climate change impacts on alpine hydrology in the Coast Mountains

Neil Saxvik
MSc

nas31@sfu.ca

Supervisor: Ruth Joy
Committee Members: Kaitlin Palmer and Oliver Kirsebom

Yanik Nill
MSc

yanik_nill@sfu.ca

Supervisor: Brendan Murphy
Committee Member: Sophie Wilkinson

Adam Dewar
MRM

Home Unit: Resource and Environmental Management
Supervisor: Karen Kohfeld

Brandon Nasr
MSc

Home Unit: Earth Science
Supervisor: Jessica Pilarczyk

Elli Cunningham
MRM 

Home Unit: Resource and Environmental Management
Supervisor: Karen Kohfeld

Erin Fairley
MSc

Home Unit: Geography
Supervisor: Jeremy Venditti, Leonard Sklar

Grace Johnson
MSc 

Home Unit: Physics
Supervisor: Shawn Chartrand

Hannah Marton
MSc

Home Unit: Biological Sciences
Supervisor: Chelsea Little

Haoyu Wang
MSc

Home Unit: Earth Sciences
Supervisor: Jeremy Venditti

Research Area: Landslide susceptibility and ecohazard assessment along the Fraser Canyon corridor in British Columbia, Canada. Using LiDAR-derived terrain data and machine learning techniques, particularly Random Forest models, Haoyu analyzes landslide hazards and evaluates their potential impacts on river connectivity and salmon migration within the Fraser River system.

Junyi Meng
MRM 

Home Unit: Resources and Environmental Management
Supervisor: Karen Kohfeld

Lauren Laturnus
MSc

Home Unit: Biological Sciences
Supervisor: Ruth Joy

Rebecca Smart
MRM 

Home Unit: Resource and Environmental Management
Supervisor: Karen Kohfeld

Adam Kuhrt
PhD Candidate

Home Unit: Biological Sciences
Supervisor: Chelsea Little

Research Area: Factors that determine the structure and function of invertebrate communities in high alpine stream environments.

Andreas Peffekover
PhD Candidate

Home Unit: Earth Science
Supervisor: Jessica Pilarczyk

Anthony Giang
PhD Candidate

Home Unit: Earth Science
Supervisor: Jessica Pilarczyk

Research Area: Megathrust earthquakes, Cascadia subduction zone, foraminifera, salt marshes

Chloe Ross
PhD Candidate

Home Unit: Earth Science
Supervisor: Jeremy Venditti

Research Area: River geomorphology and sediment transport, focusing on the morphodynamics and distribution of rapids in bedrock rivers, with the Fraser Canyon as a primary field site.

Daphnee Tuzlak
PhD Candidate

Home Unit: Resource and Environmental Management
Supervisor: Shawn Chartrand

Ingrid Reis Campos
PhD Candidate

Home Unit: Biological Sciences
Supervisor: Chelsea Little

Jonas Eschenfelder
PhD Candidate

Home Unit: Earth Sciences
Supervisor: Shawn Chartrand

Lars Sturm
PhD Candidate

Home Unit: Biological Sciences
Supervisor: Chelsea Little

Mermer Wang
PhD Candidate

Home Unit: Earth Science
Supervisor: Jessica Pilarczyk

Teng-Wei Lin
PhD Candidate

Home Unit: Statistics and Actuarial Science
Supervisor: Ruth Joy

ANDREA MENDEZ-BYE
PhD Candidate

Home University: La Rochelle Université, France
Supervisors: Ruth Joy, Tiphaine Jeanniard du Dot

LEONARDO MELIS
MSc Candidate

Home University: Université de Lorraine, France
Supervisors: Ruth Joy

NINON PICHARD
MSc Candidate

Home University: Université de Lille, France
Supervisors: Ruth Joy