As an ESS student, you will have many hands-on research opportunities to work with professors as research assistants during the school year, summer internships, or undergraduate research projects.
You are free to explore research with faculty in the department of your choice; ask thewilliam.minarik [at] mcgill.ca ( undergraduate student advisor )for more information.
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Examples of ESS research past and present:
Sam Aucoin: Coastal Sea-Ice Break-Up Events in Beringia
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Life After 海角社区: Sam is now doing a PhD at Dalhousie University
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Nicolas Brown: Interruptions of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in a global coupled model, with and without freshwater forcing (BSc. Honours in Earth Systems Science, 2014)
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Life After 海角社区: Nicholas is now a geospatial data engineer, working with all kinds of remote sensing data. He has previously worked for GHGSat (greenhouse gas monitoring) and is now at Overstory (remotely sensed vegetation management for utilities).
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Ava Fuchs: Quantifying global human activities through harmonized population-scale time use data.
Ava is currently a student and research assistant in the department.
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Isabelle McIntyre: Climate Signals in the St. Lawrence River Water Levels and Discharge (Honours Earth System Sciences, Minor Anthropology, 2023)听
Life After 海角社区:听听Isabelle听started law school at the University of Victoria in September 2023.
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Joseph Samuel:听Weather-Driven Complementarity between Daily Energy Demand at One Location and Renewable Supply at Another (BSc. Honours in Earth System Science 2022)
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Life After 海角社区: Joseph started his Master's at the University of Calgary. He is developing and testing an improved technique to identify and quantify urban methane emissions that are currently missing from municipal inventories. Hopefully, this can help guide policy to mitigate further emission.
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Clara Schryer: Late Holocene Record of Processes Controlling Carbon Burial in Lake Melville, Labrador
Life After 海角社区:听 Clara is currently pursuing a Masters degree at Queen's University. She is trying to understand how much carbon is leaving the watersheds in Cape Bounty, in what forms, and how much is released to the atmosphere as greenhouse gases.
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