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McGill Isotope Biogeochemistry Lab
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Principal Investigator

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Dr. Peter Douglas
Associate Professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences
William Dawson Scholar
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Lab Manager

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Dr. Thi Hao Bui
PhD in Isotope Geochemistry, McGill University


Postdoctoral Researchers

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Dr. Milad Ezzati
FRQ Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD in Chemistry, Concordia University
Detecting changes in organic matter respiration and stabilization in estuarine sediments undergoing saltwater incursion

Graduate Students

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Bonnie de Baets
Ph.D. Candidate (Co-supervised with Dr. Josué Jautzy)
Using clumped isotopes to understand methane formation in the permafrost active layer

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Jacob Asomaning
Ph.D. Candidate
Isotopic tracers for greenhouse gas emissions processes in Greater Montreal

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Joshua Wasserlauf
Ph.D. Candidate
Using gas radiocarbon measurements to detect plastic biodegradation in landfills

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Kendra Leishman
M.Sc. Student
Bayesian isotope mixing models to understand sediment organic matter sources in a large tropical lake

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Isabel Strachan
Ph.D. Candidate (Co-supervised with Dr. Benjamin Gwinneth)
Biomarker records of coupled climate and land use change across the Maya region

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Carson Pearl
Ph.D. Candidate (Co-supervised with Dr. Cynthia Kallenbach)
Quantifying and comparing priming effects in boreal soils and thaw ponds

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Lola Rabinovitch
M.Sc. Student
Tracing fresh carbon uptake into microbial biomass in permafrost active layer soils and ponds

Co-supervisees at other institutions

Aaron Price
Ph.D. Candidate in Soil Science at the University of British Columbia (supervised by Dr. Cynthia Kallenbach)

Lab Alumni

  • Melanie Burnett- Ph.D. (2026), now Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Alberta
  • Ting Zhang- CSC Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-2026), now Research Associate at the Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Jean Tremblay- PhD (2025, U. Montréal, Archaeology)
  • Mingxuan Zhang- Visiting Ph.D. student (Wuhan; 2024-2025), now at China Energy Investment Corporation
  • Robert Bogue- Ph.D. (2025), now Postdoctoral Researcher at McGill
  • Regina Gonzalez Moguel- Ph.D. (2023), Postdoctoral Researcher (2023-2025), now Project Manager at FluxLab
  • Emilie Reid- SURA project (2024)
  • Alexie Roy-Lafontaine- M.Sc. (2024, UQAR), now Research Associate at UQAM
  • Hiba Aoid- M.Sc. (2023)
  • Estelle Allan- FRQNT Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2024), now Project Manager at Habitat
  • Yunfeng Wang- Wares Postdoctoral Fellow (2021-2023), now Research Associate at the Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Wesley Parker- NSF Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022), now at KPMG UK
  • Benjamin Keenan- Ph.D. (2022), now Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal
  • Ying Ran Lin- M.Sc. (2018), now Geological Engineer at KCB
  • Jenny Ni- M.Sc. (2019), now Product Manager at Seequent
  • Robert Bourque- M.Sc. (2019), now a Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado-Boulder
  • Emerald Stratigopoulos- SURA Project 2017, now Project Geologist at Emerald GeoField Services
  • Sanga Park- SURA Project 2017, now Senior Scientist at IQVIA
  • Fei Ya Chen- ESS Honour's Thesis 2020, now National Communicty Mapping Lead at Canadian Red Cross
  • Dawson Phan- Independent study project 2020, now a Ph.D. student at Ohio State
  • Clara Schryer- USRA project 2021 and ESS Honour's Thesis 2023, now Environmental Monitoring Specialist at Chu Cho Environmental
  • Aelis Spiller- SURA project and independent study 2021, now an M.Sc. student at McGill
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