I was born and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. My early interest in geography was cultivated by frequent family hiking and skiing trips to the Rocky Mountains. I was also fortunate to spend a disproportionate part of my youth in peatlands and bogs in northern Alberta working with bryologists learni...
I was born and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. My early interest in geography was cultivated by frequent family hiking and skiing trips to the Rocky Mountains. I was also fortunate to spend a disproportionate part of my youth in peatlands and bogs in northern Alberta working with bryologists learning about these environments. During my undergraduate program in Geography at the University of Alberta (B.Sc. (Hons) –1990), I was introduced to earth science fieldwork and took my first opportunity to carry out research in the Canadian High Arctic. That early mentorship encouraged my interest in research in the north that continues today. My graduate degrees were acquired at the Climate Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (M.S. – 1994) and with the northern research group at the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta (Ph.D. – 1998). I was awarded an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship that was held at Queen’s University from 1998-1999. In 1999 I accepted an academic position in the Department of Geography at Queen’s University in Kingston.