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Scott Jasechko, Ph.D.
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University of California - Santa Barbara team
Ivy Nunez BSc (UC Santa Barbara) 2018
Ivy Nunez is completing her BSc in Environmental Studies with a specialization in Hydrology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her work during the summer of 2018 focuses on hydrochemical data at continental-scales Specifically, Ivy is developing a pan-continent groundwater chemistry dataset for further geospatial analysis, with the summertime goal of better understanding the variability in groundwater quality at expansive (100s - 1000s kilometers) spatial scales.
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Charlotte Mahoney BSc (UC Santa Barbara) 2018
Charlotte Mahoney is completing her BSc in Earth Sciences at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her summer-2018 research includes amassing quantitative hydrogeological data for global aquifer systems. Charlotte's research will create a new groundwater dataset for geographic information systems analysis to build a better knowledge base of just where groundwater is stored across the continents, information vital for understanding groundwater flows and quality across continents.
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University of calgary team (2015 - 2018)
Jessica Ellis MSc (Calgary) 2015-2017
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Brendan Hart BSc Honours 2016-2017
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Yashee Mathur BSc MITACS Fellowship Summer-2016
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Michelle Fodor BSc NSERC USRA Fellowship Summer-2015
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Jessica Ellis completed her M.Sc. in Geography at the University of Calgary. Jessica focused her research on Alberta oil sands region water quality. Fieldwork was key to Jessica's MSc-level research. She organized and led no less than three excursions to northeastern Alberta, making thousands of water quality measurements. Jessica sampled springs of fossil groundwater discharging into rivers in the oil sands region (picture of Jessica collecting a sample from the Globe and Mail). Jessica completed water chemistry analyses at five laboratories in Canada and the USA. Her leadership led to an important discovery: underground formation waters discharge into oil sands rivers, particularly where oil-sands-bearing formations and deeper formations that are sometimes targeted for wastewater injection outcrop along river banks. She presented research at more than four conferences during her MSc, including her presentation at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Jessica's research is published in Hydrological Processes (Ellis and Jasechko, 2018). Jessica now works in the Athabasca oil sands region through Athabasca University as part of a multi-year research program. |
Brendan Hart completed his Honours-level B.Sc. in Environmental Science with us. Brendan sampled the Bow River at Calgary 228 days in a row. His project sought to better understand how long it takes for rain and snow to reach the Bow. Brendan discovered that the large majority of Bow River water is precipitation that fell more than ~3 months ago. Brendan's finding that most water in the Bow River takes many months or even years to reach the river has key implications for water quality and land use management, as he details in his lead article in the Bow River Basin Council's September-2017 newsletter (link to their website here). Brendan now travels Australia, exploring rivers down under. |
Yashee Mathur completed her MITACS Fellowship with us at the University of Calgary. While here, Yashee contributed to amassing extensive oxygen, hydrogen and carbon isotope data and analyzing her compilation to better understand spatial distributions of water isotope compositions. Yashee has now completed her B.Sc. in Integrated Applied Geology from the Indian Institute of Technology at the Indian School of Mines in Dhanbad, located in eastern India. She now works as a geologist with Cairn Limited. |
Michelle Fodor led an NSERC USRA during summer 2015 with us. Michelle completed numerous research projects during the summer, including sampling water wells in rural central Alberta, compilation of water isotope and water infrastructure data. Michelle is now a lead researcher at an agriculture research station in Lacombe, Alberta (~2 hour drive north of Calgary). |
