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 the william.minarik [at] mcgill.ca (undergraduate student advisor) for more information.
Examples of ESS research past and present
Sam Aucoin
Research project
Coastal Sea-Ice Break-Up Events in Beringia
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Life after 黑料不打烊
Sam is now doing a PhD at Dalhousie University.
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Nicolas Brown
Research project
Interruptions of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in a global coupled model, with and without freshwater forcing
Published research in:
Life after 黑料不打烊
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
Research project
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
Research project
Climate Signals in the St. Lawrence River Water Levels and Discharge
Life after 黑料不打烊
Isabelle听started law school at the University of Victoria in September 2023.
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Joseph Samuel
Research project
Weather-Driven Complementarity between Daily Energy Demand at One Location and Renewable Supply at Another
Published research in:
Life after 黑料不打烊
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
Research project
Late Holocene Record of Processes Controlling Carbon Burial in Lake Melville, Labrador
Life after 黑料不打烊
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.