Meet our team
Faculty
Dr. Dan Shugar
Dan Shugar is the Director of the waterSHED Lab. Dan completed his PhD at Simon Fraser University, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Victoria. He worked at the University of Washington Tacoma prior to moving to the ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment and Director of the Environmental Science Program.
PhD (2011, SFU, Earth Science); MSc (2005, Guelph, Geography); BSc (2003, Carleton, Geography)
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Current members
Ava Keerak
Ava is a BSc student majoring in geophysics and data science, working on mapping glacial lakes in the British Columbia Coast Mountains
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Tek Kshetri
Tek is a geomatics engineer whose MSc work focuses on mapping sand mining areas in Nepalese rivers.
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Parke Fontaine
Parke Fontaine is doing a BSc research project on sediment transfers following wildfire in the Okanagan of British Columbia
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Holly Basiuk
Holly graduated from the Calgary ENSC BSc program where she conducted research in the waterSHEDlab on a variety of topics. For her MSc work, she is focusing on geomorphic and sedimentological changes in glacier-fed lakes in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
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Michael Thiel
Mike joined the group in fall 2023 as an MSc student interested in Quaternary geology and natural hazards. His thesis topic is post-wildfire debris flows.
Dr Lewis Bailey
Dr Lew Bailey completed a URKI-Mitacs Doctoral Exchange last year, working on ocean surface turbidity, and is now aÌýpostdoctoral scholar working with Dr Shugar and Dr Steve Hubbard on a variety of turbidity current projects.
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Dr Aram Fathian
Dr Aram Fathian was a visiting student from RWTH Aachen previously, and is now a postdoctoral scholar working on alpine geohazards using InSAR, optical satellite imagery, and ICESat-2 altimetry
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Alumni
Annika Richardson (BSc, ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½, 2024)
Dr Celeste Labedz (postdoc, ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½, 2024)
Luc van Dijk (visiting MSc student, UUtrecht, 2023)
Jackson Bodtker (MSc, ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½, 2023)
Dr Mike Tilston (postdoc, ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½, 2023)
Holly Basiuk (BSc, ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½, 2022)
Aram Fathian (visiting PhD student, RWTH Aachen, 2022)
Lewis Bailey (visiting PhD student, U Southampton, 2022)
Ethan Lee (visiting PhD student, U Newcastle, 2022)
Meghan Sharp (MSc, ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½, 2021)
Gryphen Goss (MSc, ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½, 2021)
Kijak, Szymon (BSc, ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½, 2021)
Bonno, DougÌý(BSc, UW Tacoma, 2018)
Haas, JohnÌý(BSc, UW Tacoma, 2018)
Kennedy, KatieÌý(BSc, UW Tacoma, 2018)
Lane, Tim (BSc, UW Tacoma, 2018)
Bell, JoeyÌý(BSc, UW Tacoma, 2017)
Burr, AaronÌý(BSc, UW Tacoma, 2017)
Henderson, YonÌý(BSc, UW Tacoma, 2017)
Rawley, HeatherÌý(BSc, UW Tacoma, 2017)
Opportunities
If you are interested in working with the waterSHED Lab on topics including alpine geomorphology or geohazards as a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow, familiarize yourself with our and get in touch with Dr Dan Shugar by email. Include your CV and unofficial transcripts and a brief explanation of your research interests. I am open to inquires from students from a variety of backgrounds, including geoscience, physical geography, geophysics, etc, but can only consider students whose research interests align with my own. Get in touch as early as possible:ÌýFor Canadian applicants and permanent residents, note that NSERC funding applications for graduate scholarships have to be submitted in the autumn of the year before you plan to start your studies.Ìý
For more information about applying, see the ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ Department of Geoscience .