Christine Leclerc

Program: PhD

Supervisor: Dr. Kirsten Zickfeld

Education: 

·         M.Sc., Climate Science, Simon Fraser University, 2025

·         B.Sc., Physical Geography, Simon Fraser University, 2021

·         MFA, Creative Writing, University of British Columbia, 2010

·         BFA, Creative Writing, University of British Columbia, 2008 

Personal website:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/xineleclerc

Research description/interests:

Climate scientist specializing in Earth system model simulation analysis of carbon dioxide removal, with a focus on biosphere response to temperature stabilization and overshoot pathways, hydrologic cycle feedbacks, land–atmosphere interactions, and Coupled Model Intercomparison Project multi-model ensembles. Contributing to CMIP7-relevant methodologies and large-scale climate intervention analysis.

Biography: 

Christine Leclerc lives in Coast Salish Homelands / Burnaby, B.C. She is an award-winning author and science communicator who studies terrestrial biosphere response to temperature stabilization and overshoot, peak, and decline pathways at Simon Fraser University’s Climate Research Lab. In addition, is the president of the Geography Graduate Student Association, a FENV Graduate Studies Committee graduate student representative, North America representative with the YESS early career researcher network, and a research fellow with the World Climate Research Programme’s Fresh Eyes on CMIP initiative. She is a past member of SFU’s Hydrology Research Group and has served as an Expert Reviewer with the IPCC, an inaugural cohort member of Evidence for Democracy‘s Science to Policy Accelerator, and on the non-profit boards of Embark Sustainability and Sierra Club BC.

Publications:

Mortezapour, M., Zickfeld, K., Arora, V. K., and Leclerc, C.: Global and Regional Hydroclimatic Responses to Alternative Global Reforestation Pathways, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2620, 2026.  

Katzenberger, A., Pérez-Carrasquilla, J. S., Gemmell, K., Galytska, E., Leclerc, C., P, P., Roy, I., Varuolo-Clarke, A., Tošić, M., and Črnivec, N.: Developing Guidelines for working with Multi-Model Ensembles in CMIP, Earth Syst. Dynam., 17, 495–532, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-17-495-2026, 2026.  

Lapides, D., Leclerc, C.D., Moidu, H., Dralle, D., and Hahm, W.J. 2021. Variability of headwater stream network extents controlled by flow regime and network hydraulic scaling. Hydrological Processes. Available from https://doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1002/hyp.14079.

Leclerc, C.D. 2020. Comprehensive network hydraulic scaling datasets and associated resources (discharge, channel length surveys, watershed metadata, blueline network shapefiles and reference images). HydroShare. doi:10.4211/hs.e1d5bff5f7b44e29bcf9d91757360f18.