Exploring the influence of winter conditions on carbon flux dynamics of Canadian Rocky Mountain peatlands

Quantifying how beaver activity influences peatland plant productivity using drones

Examining current practice in the use of environmental assessment as a tool for managing the impacts of mining on wetlands

Scrutinizing how surface water flows are routed through large beaver dam complexes

Examining how a mountain peatland and its associated beaver ponds mitigates anticipated increased upland runoff in the early post-harvest years

Analyzing the water force beaver dams can endure before failing

Quantifying aboveground biomass harvests to inform biomass prediction from drone acquired imagery

Building an online platform so that YOU can become involved in our project documenting seasonal use of beaver dams as travel corridors for wildlife

Coder extraordinaire, working to wrangle the hundreds of 1000s of images captured by the public on our Castor Tracker network and showcase them on a project website

Graduate student opportunities are available to contribute to a fully-funded project aimed at advancing the use of beavers as a nature-based solution to manage the impacts of climate change. Individual graduate projects involve: 1) assessing how the location of a pond-leveling device within a beaver dam network affects ponding, downstream connectivity, channel-floodplain connectivity, and beaver activities; 2) exploring determinants of beaver site occupancy and the environmental feedbacks that help maximize beaver dam network persistence and their hydrological impacts (co-supervised by Glynnis Hood); and 3) determining how beaver dams built in a network pattern capture spring runoff and store flows as groundwater for release during the drier summer months.