Dr. Scott J. Davidson (Full CV)
2019 – Present: Adjunct Assistant Professor – University of Waterloo
2018 – Present: Postdoctoral Fellow – University of Waterloo
Research topics:
- Understanding the role of disturbances such as wildfire and resource extraction on carbon dynamics in boreal peatlands
- Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to map vegetation communities/greenhouse gas exchange impacted by climatic and anthropogenic disturbance and to monitor restoration success
- Carbon dynamics from temperate swamps
- Soil characteristics after seismic line restoration – Boreal Ecosystem Recovery and Assessment (BERA) project
- Greenhouse gas dynamics at a constructed wetland in Northern Alberta, Canada
EDUCATION
2013-2017 PhD – University of Sheffield and San Diego State University
PhD thesis: ‘Scaling methane emissions in spatially heterogeneous Arctic tundra landscapes: the importance of vegetation’
2012-2013 MSc Polar and Alpine Change – University of Sheffield
Thesis: ‘Comparisons of environmental controls on stream and heathland vegetation community composition, Glenshee, Scotland’
2007-2012 MA (Hons) Geography – University of Dundee
Thesis: ‘Vegetation colonisation of a debris-covered glacier, Miage Glacier, Mont Blanc Massif, Italy’
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2019 Guest Instructor – University of Waterloo
Graduate course: ‘Managed wetlands: Biogeochemistry’
2018 Sessional Instructor – University of Waterloo
Undergraduate course: ‘Approaches to Research in Physical Geography’
2016 PhD Mentor – British Ecological Society
Undergraduate summer school
2013-2017 Field Instructor – University of Sheffield
‘Arctic ecosystems under a changing climate – Abisko, Sweden’
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
2017-2018 Ecologist – Atkins Global Ltd
2011-2012 Assistant Ecologist – FDM Ecology
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
I have presented both oral and poster presentations at numerous international conferences such as the American Geophysical Union, European Geosciences Union, Canadian Geophysical Union and the British Ecological Society annual meetings.
