Lab News
Congratulations to lab director, Kirsten Zickfeld who was awarded SFU's 2025 Graduate Studies Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision. Way to go, Kirsten!
Welcome to new post-doctoral fellow, Isabel Dove! Isabel will research the representation of different CDR pathways in an Earth system model to determine their respective impact on the climate system.
Congratulations to lab director, Kirsten Zickfeld, on her selection as a Contributing Lead Author (CLA) for the IPCC 7th Assessment Report (AR7). She will be contributing to Chapter 9 (“Earth system responses under pathways towards temperature stabilization, including overshoot pathways”). Well done, Kirsten!
PhD. student, Rachel Chimuka, attended the South Korea Climate Corps Summer School an initiative that unites higher education institutions to co-generate impactful solutions for climate crisis. Her team won second place for their business proposal in the carbon dioxide removal space.
MSc. student, Pierre Etienne Banville, was awarded the People's Choice Award at the 3MT Faculty of Environment Competition Heat. Congratulations Pierre Etienne!
All climate lab members presented at the European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna, Austria.
Post-doctoral research fellow, Jayakrishnan K. U., presented his research at this year's Post-doctoral Research Day.
Congratulations to M.Sc. student, Christine Leclerc, who was recently awarded the Canadian Pacific Teck Award for Environmental Innovation to fund her 2024 -2025 research.
PhD. student, Rachel Chimuka, gave a talk titled "Carbon Xchange: A Climate Rap Battle" at the November Nerd Nite organized by Nerd Nite YVR.
Congratulations to M.Sc. student, Christine Leclerc, who was awarded an Outstanding Oral Presentation Award at the 3rd MeteoXchange ECS Conference this year. Well done, Christine!
M.Sc. student, Christine Leclerc, will join the World Climate Research Programme’s Fresh Eyes on CMIP initiative as part of the Data Analysis team. She and over 100 international colleagues are part of a new working group integrating the voices of early career researchers (ECRs), scientists and practitioners in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Fresh Eyes on CMIP participants will sit alongside the CMIP7 task teams. These team members will also work to significantly increase collaborations with scientists in the global south.
PhD. student, Rachel Chimuka, presented her research at the Workshop on Assessing TCRE and ZEC held in Bristol, UK. The goal of the workshop was to assemble current knowledge on Transient Climate Response to cumulative carbon Emissions (TCRE) and Zero Emissions Commitment (ZEC) in the context of carbon budgets and to create a plan to move forward towards an assessment over the next 1-2 years.
PhD. student, Rachel Chimuka, gave a talk titled "Carbon Xchange: A Climate Rap Battle" at the Art & Ale Nerd Nite organized by the Museum of North Vancouver (MONOVA).
Lab director, Kirsten Zickfeld, along with lab members Alexander MacIsaac and Christine Leclerc presented their research at the 2023 American Geophysical Union Meeting (AGU) Fall Meeting.
Lab director, Kirsten Zickfeld, recently published a paper with PhD. student, Alex MacIsaac, on “Net-zero approaches must consider Earth system impacts to achieve climate goals” in Nature Climate Change.
Congratulations to Takuma Mihara who defended his MSc. thesis on “Reversibility of permafrost carbon pool changes under temperature overshoot scenarios”. Great job, Takuma!
Lab director, Kirsten Zickfeld, gave a talk at the 2023 Chatham House Climate Change Workshop in London. The two-day workshop focused on accelerating progress on climate and biodiversity goals.
Lab director, Kirsten Zickfeld, convened the Earth system effects of carbon dioxide removal session at the 2023 Environmental Research Conference. She also gave a talk titled "Net zero frameworks must consider Earth system effects of carbon dioxide removal to achieve climate goals" during the session.
Lab director, Kirsten Zickfeld, and PhD. student, Rachel Chimuka presented their research virtually during the 2023 World Climate Research Programme Ocean Science Conference (WCRP OSC).
Congratulations to Ph.D. student, Rachel Chimuka, who was awarded an NSERC Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship!