Shan Kothari – Postdoctoral Researcher

Shan Kothari – Postdoctoral Researcher

Shan is a physiological ecologist who seeks to understand the diverse ways that plants interact with their light environment. As part of CABO, he aims to describe how and why plants vary in their optical properties. Outside of work, he likes to play the viola, read...
Florence Blanchard – MSc Student

Florence Blanchard – MSc Student

(Co-supervised with Anne Bruneau) As part of the CABO project, Florence studies the influence of evolutionary history on the spectral diversity of Quebec’s trees. She seeks to uncover the processes behind their spectral differences using phylogenetic comparative...
Maria Juliana Pardo Losada – MSc Student

Maria Juliana Pardo Losada – MSc Student

Juliana is a biologist from Bogotá, Colombia, interested in ecosystem ecology. As part of CABO, she studies the ability of leaf spectra to discriminate the invasive common reed (Phragmites australis) from co-occurring species, and whether species spectral...
Rosalie Beauchamp-Rioux – MSc Student

Rosalie Beauchamp-Rioux – MSc Student

Rosalie’s master’s project is part of the CABO research project. Her project assesses our ability to differentiate temperate forest tree species with spectra and tests the degree to which environmental factors, phenology, leaf functional traits and taxonomic identity...
Vlad Parasquive – PhD Student

Vlad Parasquive – PhD Student

(Co-supervised with Pierre-Luc Chagnon and Jacques Brisson) Vlad studies the roles that mycorrhizal fungi play in tree establishment into herbaceous vegetation. In particular, he is exploring ecological differences between ectomycorrhizal and arbscular mycorrhizal...