People
Faculty
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Prof Sarah Finkelstein Research interests: Paleoecology, paleoclimatology, Holocene paleoenvironments, microfossils, pollen analysis, diatoms, lake sediments, wetlands |
Post-docs
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Dr Joan Bunbury UofT Centre for Global Change Science Post-Doctoral Fellow bunburyj@ geog.utoronto.ca |
Current Students
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Carlos Avendaño PhD Candidate Palynology, plant biogeography and land use change in the central Guatemalan highlands. Co-supervised with Dr Sharon Cowling. chilipoh@ gmail.com |
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John-Paul Iamonaco MSc Candidate Paleoenvironmental records from the Sarcpa Lake Region, Nunavut iamonaco@ geog.utoronto.ca |
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Charlotte Friel Stable oxygen isotopes in diatom valves as paleoclimatic indicators c.friel@ utoronto.ca |
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Ben O'Reilly Paleoecology of the Hudson Bay Lowland, Northern Ontario |
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Stephanie Mah NSERC-USRA summer student 2009; Work-study program 2009/2010 Arctic paleolimnology |
Alexander Spackman NSERC-USRA summer student 2009 Sporopollenin chemistry |
Lab Alumni
- Jane Devlin (MSc 2009) Freshwater ecosystem health in Sirmilik National Park, Baffin Island, High Arctic Canada
- Jennifer Adams (MSc 2009) Quantitative Paleoclimate Reconstructions from the Melville Peninsula, Nunvaut, Canada
- Krish Chakraborty (MSc 2008) A diatom record of climatic changes and watershed processes from Kusawa Lake, Yukon Territory, northwestern Canada. Co-supervised with Dr Joe Desloges
- Maryam Akrami. Snow pollen analysis, Cape Bounty, Melville Island, Nunavut. University of Toronto work-study program. 2006/2007 and 2007/2008.
- Vladimir Danov. A multi-proxy analysis of carbon storage and ecological responses in wetlands to climatic variability since 2000 yr BP. U of T Centre for Global Change Science Summer Intern (2007).
- Jeff Harsant. GGR491Y Independent research course. Clinal variation in pollen morphology in the circum-Arctic herb Saxifraga oppositifolia
- Chris Luszczek. GGR491Y Independent research course. Impacts of terrestrial vegetation change on algal assemblages in the late Holocene, Clearwater Lake, central Ontario
- Leslie Cauchi. Late Holocene paleovegetation in the Sudbury sub-boreal forest zone, Ontario. NSERC-USRA (2006).
- Yen Nguyen. University of Toronto work-study program (in collaboration with the Green Plant Herbarium, Royal Ontario Museum). 2006/2007.
- Jessica Shih. Range dynamics and invasive tendencies in Typha latifolia and T. angustifolia in eastern North America derived from pollen and herbarium records. U of T Centre for Global Change Science Summer Intern (2006).
- Janice Tang. A pollen record from Clearwater Lake, central Ontario. U of T Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (2006/2007).