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Dr. Ian B. Strachan, Ph.D.

I serve as Associate Dean (Graduate Education) for the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and am Associate Professor of Micrometeorology in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences. I am cross-appointed for teaching to the Department of Geography.

I began my academic journey at the University of Toronto where I studied Physical Geography. I traveled down the 401 to Kingston where I earned MSc and PhD (in 2000) degrees at Queen's University. I then went up the 416 to Ottawa, completing post-doctoral research at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. My journey next took me east along the 417/A40 to McGill where I have been since 2001.

As the late Neil Peart wrote: "The point of a journey is not to arrive"

Ph.D. Students

Miranda Hunter

Miranda is a doctoral candidate at U. Waterloo with Dr. Maria Strack and co-supervised by Strachan. Miranda holds an NSERC CGSD award and is studying the hydrological controls on greenhouse gas production and emission in peatlands undergoing active harvesting.

M.Sc. Students

Laura Clark

Sophie Burgess

Laura is co-supervised by Dr. Maria Strack (U. Waterloo) and is studying the effect that years since drainage has on greenhouse gas emissions in peatlands undergoing active peat harvesting.

Sophie will begin her research in September 2021 focusing on freshwater marsh greenhouse gas production and emissions.

Steffy Velosa

Steffy will begin her research in September 2021 co-supervised with Dr. Nigel Roulet (Geography, McGill). Steffy will study the role that field management plays in the release of greenhouse gases from drained peat fields and peat stockpiles.

Undergraduate Honours Thesis Students

Kaiyun Wang

Amelia Weiss

Kai is completing a B.Sc. in Physical Geography and will be conducting research as part of the Peat Extraction project. Kai holds a McGill SURA award for 2021.

Amelia is completing a B.A.-B.Sc. degree and will be investigating urban carbon budgets for her honours thesis. Amelia holds an NSERC USRA award and is co-supervised by Dr. Nancy Ross.