Nch'kay Subalpine Research
The 2024 Research Team!
Project Lead
Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe
Noémie is a professor at the University of Victoria. She studies alpine and arctic plants and their relations to people.
Project Lead
Chelsea Little
Chelsea is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Science at Simon Fraser University. She studies biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and works in tundra landscapes across the world.
Project Lead
Cassandra Elphinstone
Cassandra is a PhD candidate in Botany at the University of British Columbia studying the genomics of tundra plants.
Project Lead
Courtney Collins
Courtney is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia and her research investigates the above and belowground impacts of climate change on tundra ecosystems.
Project Lead
Nina Hewitt
Nina is a professor in Geography at the University of British Columbia. She studies global change impacts on forest and alpine tundra ecosystems.
Research Assistant
Liz McCleary
Elizabeth is an undergraduate student in Geomatics at the University of Victoria. They are working on collecting vegetation data for the warming experiment.
Research Assistant
Nina Dorsch
Nina is an undergraduate student in physics and environmental science at the University of British Columbia. She is working on collecting and interpreting data for the human disturbance study.
Research Assistant
Teagan Maclachlan
Teagan is a Biology undergraduate at the University of British Columbia who is working on the Trampling Study.
NSERC USRA
Sebastian Yerex
Sebastian is working on the drone imagery he collected last summer at the field sites.
Team members
Volunteers!
Thank you to the AMAZING volunteers that have made this project a success! We couldn't have done it without you. If you're interested in getting involved, please email us!