Research Group
Cynthia Kallenbach; Associate Professor
Cynthia is an Associate Professor in Soil Science in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia and Adjunct Professor at McGill University. She has a MSc in International Agricultural Development and in Soils and Biogeochemistry from University of California, Davis and a PhD in Earth and Environmental Science from the University of New Hampshire. She values collaborations across disciplines and is excited about applying fundamental ecological theories to understand how soil responds to agriculture and climate change.
Kinga Bihari, MSc student
Kinga joined the SBE lab after 2 years working with the U.S. EPA and completing her BSc in Environmental Studies at the University of Santa Barbara. She is interested in ecosystem-scale carbon cycling dynamics in Arctic and wetland systems.
Jessica Nicksy, PhD candidate
Jess completed her M.Sc. at the University of Manitoba in soil science, where she evaluated amendments for organic agriculture that cycle nutrients from urban areas back onto farmland. She is interested in the intersection of sustainable agriculture practices and climate change. Her research investigates how management practices impact soil carbon dynamics and storage. Prior to starting graduate studies, Jess worked as a vegetable market gardener on her small farm, Barefoot Gardens. Jess holds a NSERC-CGS-D scholarship.
Jakub Papík, GACR Postdoctoral Fellow
Jakub received his PhD in Microbiology from the University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague. He investigates the interactions between soil, plants and microorganisms using molecular-based approaches and stable isotopes to better understand plant-soil feedback and organic matter turnover in agroecosystems and peatlands. He holds a GACR postdoc individual fellowship.
Aaron Price, PhD; co-supervised with Peter Douglas
Aaron has a MSc from Virginia Tech where he studied the application of microbially explicit models in predicting mineral-associated matter changes in Loblolly Pine forests under future climate and management conditions. His dissertation focuses on integrating microbially explicit process-models into the representation of permafrost soils to facilitate improved global accounting of soil carbon pools.
Lab alumni
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Melanie Burnett, PhD, 2021-2026
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Juliette Lebold, MSc 2024-2026
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Hannah Lieberman, PhD 2019-2025
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Nadia Moukanni, Postdoc 2023-2025
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Erik Demers, Research Assistant 2025-2026
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Deniz Dutton, MSc 2022-025
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Lauriane Decoteau, Undergraduate Research Assistant 2024-2025
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Jean-Francois Pilon, Undergraduate Research Assistant 2025
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Chloe Kaplan, BSc, Honours and Research Assistant 2023-2026
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Visveshwar Senthilkumaran, Research Assistant 2023-2025
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Sophie Burgess, MSc 2023-2025
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Ana Mendez-Mourelle, Research Assistant 2022-2024
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Rachael Harman-Denhoed, MSc 2022-2024
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Jessica Chadwick, PhD 2023 Mitacs visiting scholar
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William Lapin, NSERC USRA, 2023
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Krisztina Mosdossy, PhD 2019-2023
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Caitlyn Horsch, MSc 2019-2022
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Grace McDougall-Vick, NSERC USRA 2022
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Maia Rothman BSc, Honours 2020
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Morgan McMillan, MSc 2018-2020
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Bingjie Sun, Postdoc 2019