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.
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).
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, 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.
Congratulations to Takuma Mihara who defended his MSc. thesis on “Reversibility of permafrost carbon pool changes under temperature overshoot scenarios”. Great job, Takuma!
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.
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.
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!
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.
