Lab News
Lab members, Isabel Dove, Jayakrishnan K. U., Geoffrey Harper, Rachel Chimuka and Christine Leclerc presented their research at the 2026 European Geosciences Union Meeting (EGU).
PhD student, Christine Leclerc, recently published a paper along with Fresh Eyes on CMIP Data Analysis team on ”Developing Guidelines for working with Multi-Model Ensembles in CMIP" in Earth System Dynamics.
Congratulations to MSc. student Christine Leclerc who was recently elected as a Young Earth System Scientists (YESS) Community representative. Well done, Christine!
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.
Post-doctoral research fellow, Isabel Dove, presented her work on at the Arca Lunch & Learn Talk.
PhD student, Alex MacIsaac, recently published a paper with lab director, Kirsten Zickfeld, and M.Sc. student, Pierre Etienne Banville, on ”Imbalances in climate outcomes in net-zero pathways with fossil fuel CO2 emissions and reforestation-based CO2 removals" in Nature Communications, Earth and Environment.
Congratulations to post-doctoral fellow, Isabel Dove, who won two awards at SFU's 2026 Post-Doctoral Research Day for her oral presentation. Well done, Isabel!
Lab director, Kirsten Zickfeld, and post-doctoral research fellow, Isabel Dove, presented at the Moving beyond carbon accounting: understanding the full climate impacts of carbon dioxide removal webinar. Their presentation detailed the latest understanding around how CDR impacts the carbon cycle and the implications for how it can influence global temperatures.
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 who was awarded SFU's 2025 Graduate Studies Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision. Way to go, Kirsten!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.