Jilmarie Stephens, Graduate Student, PhD Soil Science

I received my BSc in Atmospheric Science in 2011 from the University of California, Davis. In 2013 I earned my MSc in Atmospheric Science with the Biometeorology group at UC Davis under the supervisions of Dr. Kyaw Tha Paw U. My thesis was titled “Novel Micrometeorological Surface Parameterization Using Physically Based Scaling Variables”. My thesis entailed collecting eddy covariance data to investigate using new scaling variables in surface similarity theory. During my masters I also worked on a project where CO2, N2O and CH4 gas fluxes where measured from a yard clipping windrow with a photoacoustic gas analyzer and micrometeorological sensors at an industrial compost site.

In September 2013 I started my PhD with the Biometeorology group under the supervision of Dr. T. A. Black at the University of British Columbia. My research project is part of the Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN). My project involves making eddy covariance and climate measurements at an Old Aspen and Old Black Spruce forest in northern Saskatchewan. Our goal is to improve our understanding of the integrated system response (climate, hydrology, soil and vegetation) of the southern boreal forest to variation in climate. I plan to obtain key surface evaporation characteristics including the aerodynamic and surface conductances, the McNaughton-Jarvis decoupling factor and the Priestley-Taylor α, and parameterize them using environmental variables.

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