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OverviewThe Climate, Oceans, and Paleo-Environments (COPE) Lab is part of the graduate program in the School of Resource and Environmental Management (REM) at Simon Fraser University (SFU), located in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. The overall objective for our lab is to understand both natural and anthropogenic components of climate change and the carbon cycle. Our interdisciplinary group integrates ideas from climatology, meteorology, paleo-oceanography, Earth System Science and modeling, and geochemistry. The lab is led by Dr. Karen E. Kohfeld and currently includes four Masters students, two Ph.D. students, and one undergraduate.We meet weekly to discuss our research and relevant scientific literature. Click here for our weekly meeting schedule Graduate ResearchGraduate students in REM can obtain Master's or Ph.D. degrees; in our lab students' research is focused on natural climate change, the global carbon cycle, or regional impacts of climate change. All students take a series of interdisciplinary courses in the natural and social sciences, including earth system science and global change for environmental managers, ecology, resource policy, and resource economics, along with electives that suit their particular interests such as statistics, chemical oceanography, and climatology, within or outside of REM. They conduct a master's project or a PhD thesis.COPE NewsDECEMBER, 2010: Congratulations to COPE alum Brad Griffin, colleague and collaborator Andy Cooper, and Karen Kohfeld for their recently published paper. Associated media links can be found here and here. OCTOBER, 2010: A big welcome to new MRM students Ben Cross and Carolyn Duckham, and to undergraduate work study student Celeste Barstow. APRIL, 2010: Congratulations to Brad Griffin for the completion of his MRM. JANUARY 2010: Congratulations to Tommy Rodengen for completing his Masters. Tommy starts as a Ph.D. student in REM this term. Recent Awards:Congratulations to Carolyn Duckham, recipient of a 2009-2010 NSERC postgraduate fellowship. Congratulations to Liz Sutton who has been awarded a Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions scholarship to pursue her work on debris flows in the Chilliwack region of BC. Liz is also a 2009-2010 recipient of the Canada Public Safety Research Fellowship in Honour of Stuart Nesbitt White. Congrats also to Brad Griffin who just finishing up a one-year NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship to pursue his work on changes in extreme wind events in coastal British Columbia.
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