Program: PhD
Research Area: Peatland hydrology
Supervisor: Dan Moore
Hometown: Freiburg, Germany
Research Statement: My research interests evolve around peatland hydrology and in particular how climate change impacts the current ecohydrological state of Burns Bog. The bog is a 3000-ha raised bog in southwest British Columbia and recognized as globally significant wetland under the Ramsar Convention. I am currently working in cooperation with Metro Vancouver to establish in depth understanding of the occurring hydrology and the goal of my research is to develop a spatially-distributed hydrological model to recreate current condition, to simulate impacts of a changing climate on the bog’s hydrology and to assess the effectiveness of a variety of potential management strategies over the coming decades.

Peatland hydrology