Evan Schijns
MSc. student | University of Guelph | Landscape 4
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Evan is an ecologist serving Canada’s North and the greater circumboreal region, with a passion for soil carbon, permafrost and peatlands. His previous work has included stints in Alaska at the Alaskan Peatland Experiment (APEX), the Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest and Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, as well as research in the Northwest Territories examining post-fire carbon stocks in the boreal shield with the University of Laurier. He is currently working to determine pre- and post-thaw carbon stocks in thermokarst features across the Sahtu region of the Northwest Territories as part of his MSc. at the University of Guelph. This research will help to address gaps in global carbon models with respect to climate change, forest fire regimes and thermokarst state variability, as well as provide insight into traditional land-use and potential impacts on food production, infrastructure and landscape change.
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