Silvie Harder
Education: Ph.D. candidate Geography, McGill
Silvie is working on a PhD project researching the energy and CO2 fluxes from a permafrost peatland under the supervision of Nigel Roulet and co-supervision of Ian Strachan.
Silvie is trying to determine how the fluxes of CO2, water vapour and sensible heat change in a northern peatland as it experiences permafrost thaw. She has completed three full years of eddy covariance measurements on the Stordalen peat plateau near Abisko, Sweden. Her tower is strategically located with one dominant fetch “seeing” intact peat plateau (permafrost influenced) and the other dominant fetch seeing the portion of the peatland that has thawed over the last 50 years. Silvie is using footprint analysis that allows her to do a comparative analysis of the magnitude and variability of the CO2 and energy exchanges and to explain the differences by examining the dominant ecological, biogeochemical and physical controls. In addition to her EC and footprint work, she is using the fluxes obtained from Professor Patrick Crill’s (Stockholm University) automated chambers to get at the specific vegetation (plant functional type) controls. Her empirical observations will provide a better understanding of the transitions in peatland ecosystems due to thawing permafrost and her results will be used to address some questions of flux scaling across heterogeneous ecosystems.
Awards:
2015-2016 McGill Graduate Excellence Award; McGill Geography Graduate Award
2014-2015 ADAPT Travel award; CLiC Travel Award; GEC3 Student Award
2013-2014 McGill Graduate Mobility Award; GEC3 Student Award
2012-2013 McGill Graduate Travel Award
2011-2012 McGill Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Other activities and interests:
Originally from interior BC, Silvie loves to be outside-- hiking, biking, cross-country skiing and camping.
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Silvie is trying to determine how the fluxes of CO2, water vapour and sensible heat change in a northern peatland as it experiences permafrost thaw. She has completed three full years of eddy covariance measurements on the Stordalen peat plateau near Abisko, Sweden. Her tower is strategically located with one dominant fetch “seeing” intact peat plateau (permafrost influenced) and the other dominant fetch seeing the portion of the peatland that has thawed over the last 50 years. Silvie is using footprint analysis that allows her to do a comparative analysis of the magnitude and variability of the CO2 and energy exchanges and to explain the differences by examining the dominant ecological, biogeochemical and physical controls. In addition to her EC and footprint work, she is using the fluxes obtained from Professor Patrick Crill’s (Stockholm University) automated chambers to get at the specific vegetation (plant functional type) controls. Her empirical observations will provide a better understanding of the transitions in peatland ecosystems due to thawing permafrost and her results will be used to address some questions of flux scaling across heterogeneous ecosystems.
Awards:
2015-2016 McGill Graduate Excellence Award; McGill Geography Graduate Award
2014-2015 ADAPT Travel award; CLiC Travel Award; GEC3 Student Award
2013-2014 McGill Graduate Mobility Award; GEC3 Student Award
2012-2013 McGill Graduate Travel Award
2011-2012 McGill Graduate Excellence Fellowship
Other activities and interests:
Originally from interior BC, Silvie loves to be outside-- hiking, biking, cross-country skiing and camping.
Contact Silvie
