Willy Cheng
Willy is currently in the last stages of his M.Sc. in forest
climatology. His research focuses on comparing the energy fluxes over three
different forest types in a boreal ecosystem near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan,
as a part of the BERMS project. His thesis is titled Temporal variation
of energy fluxes in three different boreal ecosystems near Prince Albert,
Saskatchewan. Visit Willy's web page at
http://qlink.queensu.ca/~6ksc
. His web site includeds some great photos from the BERMS project.
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Paul Bartlett, M.Sc.
Paul worked with the Canadian Land
Surface Scheme (CLASS)
, a Land Surface Parameterization (LSP) developed at the Atmospheric Environment
Service, for use in their Global Climate Model (GCM). His Ph.D. . research
involved validating CLASS using field measurements from temperate, mixed,
and deciduous forests located near Chalk River, Ontario, and boreal coniferous
forests, located near Thompson, Manitoba (as part of the BOREAS project).
He investigated methods of representing heterogeneous surfaces, and developed
a new parameterization to represent soil moisture heterogeneity. He will
defend his thesis, titled Modelling with CLASS: Representing surface-atmosphere
interaction in temperate and boreal forests using the Canadian Land Surface
Scheme, in December 2001. Visit Paul's web page at
http://qlink.queensu.ca/~4pab
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David Joiner, Ph.D. .In May 1999, Dave successfully completed his Ph.D. .
in microscale climatology. He studied climate variables including one dimensional
eddy-correlation measurements of sensible heat, latent heat, and carbon
dioxide flux densities over a young jack pine forest and a wetland fen near
Thompson, Manitoba as a part of the Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere
Study (BOREAS)
. He designed their system to measure carbon dioxide fluctuations in air
drawn down to an infra-red gas analyzer at the base of the climate towers.
The title of Dave's thesis is Energy and mass fluxes over a boreal forest
in northern Manitoba, Net ecosystem exchange and energy balances for the
BOREAS NSA young jack pine and fen sites (1999).
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Robert Metcalfe, Ph.D. .
Bob's research focused on snowmelt processes
and a spatially-distributed hydrologic model for a catchment in the boreal
forest near Thompson, Manitoba as a part of the Northern Study Area of the
BOREAS project. His thesis is titled Water balance dynamics and runoff processes
in a northern boreal forest basin (2000). Visit Bob's web page
http://qlink.queensu.ca/~3ram7/
to find more information about his research and publications.
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Ian Strachan, Ph.D. .
Ian focused on the micrometeorology of a plantation
forest of Poplar (Populus trichocarpa Torr. and Gray) on the south coast
of Iceland. Emphasis was put on the exchange of water vapour between the
surface and atmosphere, in particular modeling the site evapotranspiration
and its partitioning between tree and soil resources using a split-stream
resistance model developed by Shuttleworth and Wallace. The title of Ian's
thesis is Micrometeorology of a black cottonwood plantation forest during
establishment years in south Iceland, 1993-1996 (1999). Ian's research and
publications can be found at
http://post.queensu.ca/~3ibs/
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