Cherie Westbrook

Ecohydrologist

Beaver Ecohydro Lab


Current Members



Postdoctoral Fellow
Tracing beaver bite marks from the sky—using drone-based LiDAR and imagery to spot shrub engineering in action and tally the carbon it costs.

PhD Candidate
Chilling out with carbon: studying winter's impact on fluxes in montane and above treeline peatland ecosystems.

PhD Candidate
Quantifying how beavers tweak the seasonal rhythm of peatland vegetation—with a drone’s-eye view.

MSc Student
Parsing the plant-life fingerprints of beaver dams to see whether these structures host communities all their own—and why.

MSc Student
Simulating soggy landscapes to see how nature’s sponges (a.k.a. peatlands) in mountain valleys soak up extra flows post-logging.

MSc Student
Unraveling how beaver engineering rewrites the chemical script and green palette of pond life.

MSc Student
Pushing beaver engineering to the limit to discover just how much force these paddle-tailed architects' creations can weather before going with the flow

MSc Student
Unpacking beaver behavioural responses to pond levelers—because even nature’s best engineers might not always love a retrofit.

Research Assistant
A varsity volleyball player known for quick reflexes—both on the court and when problem-solving in the field—ensuring high-quality, consistent datasets for long-term analysis. Named Academic All-Canadian for 2025-2026.
Logo and header photo credit: alumna Amanda Ronnquist
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