Lab director, Kirsten Zickfeld, recently published a paper with former lab members, Deven Azevedo and Sabine Mathesius, on “Asymmetry in the climate-carbon cycle response to positive and negative CO2 emissions” in the Nature Climate Change Journal. You can view the article here.
On August 9 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel (IPCC) released the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Lab director, Kirsten Zickfeld, was lead author of Chapter 5: Global carbon and other biogeochemical cycles and feedbacks.
Welcome to new M.Sc. student, Christine Leclerc! Christine’s research will focus on quantifying the impact of afforestation/reforestation on the water cycle and planetary albedo.
Welcome to new M.Sc. student, Takuma Mihara! Takuma will research the effects of passing thresholds in the climate system such as permafrost melt or ice sheet disintegration.
Lab director, Kirsten Zickfeld, recently published a paper with Ph.D. student, Alex MacIsaac and former lab members, Sabine Mathesius and Claude-Michel Nzotungicimpaye, on “Temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower peak warming in a well-below 2 °C scenario” in the Nature Communications Earth and Environment Journal. You can view the article here. This research was also mentioned…
Congratulations to MSc. student Christine Leclerc who was recently elected as a Young Earth System Scientists (YESS) Community representative. Well done, Christine!
Msc. student Christine Leclerc co-hosted ‘HOW TO KEEP EARTH COOL: A climate solutions modelling workshop‘ at the 2023 Burnaby Festival of Learning. The workshop focused on exploring how solutions can be combined to keep Earth cool in an equitable way using the En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator.
PhD. student, Rachel Chimuka, recently published a paper with lab director, Kirsten Zickfeld, and former lab member, Claude-Michel Nzotungicimpaye, on “Quantifying land carbon cycle feedbacks under negative CO2 emissions” in the Biogeosciences journal. The article was also selected by the journal as a highlight paper and featured by SFU’s Faculty of Environment.
To compliment her climate solutions research, Christine Leclerc recently became a Climate Ambassador with MIT Management affiliated Climate Interactive. As an ambassador for the En-ROADS Integrated Assessment Model, Christine will build upon knowledge gained in completing the “Mastering En-ROADS” training program and deliver climate solutions workshops.
Former lab member, Claude-Michel Nzotungicimpaye, recently published a paper with lab director, Kirsten Zickfeld, and PhD. student, Alex MacIsaac on “Delaying methane mitigation increases the risk of breaching the 2°C warming limit” in the Communications Earth and Environment journal.
