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Current Graduate Students
PhD candidates
| Name | Enrollment Date | Publications |
|---|---|---|
| Eric Ward | 2024 | |
| Ceren Demirci | 2024 | |
| Anas Ali | 2023 | |
| Jon-Paul Mastrogiacomo | 2022 | Mastrogiacomo et al. Estimating Urban CH4 Emissions from Satellite-Derived Enhancement Ratios of CH4, CO2, and CO, submitted to JGR, 2025 |
| Lawson Gillespie | 2020 | Gillespie, et al. (2025). Estimating methane emissions from the waste sector in Southern Ontario using atmospheric measurements. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 75(2), 144–163. https://doi.org/10.1080/10962247.2024.2435340 |
| Sabrina Madsen | 2019 | Madsen et al.; CO2 fluxes of vegetation in the Greenbelt of Ontario and increased net ecosystem emissions associated with its removal. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 12 January 2024; 12 (1): 00102. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2023.00102 |
Master's students
| Name | Program | Enrollment Date |
|---|---|---|
| Jaden Phillips | MES | 2024-2025 |
| Javeria Rizwan | Physics | 2024-2025 |
Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Associates
| Name | Dates | Publications |
|---|---|---|
| Christian DiMaria | 2024-present | |
| Mark Panas | 2024-present | |
| Nicole Jacobs | 2023-present | |
| Md Abdul Halim | 2022-present | |
| Olalekan Balogun | 2022-present |
Former Group Members
PhD candidates
| Name | Graduation Date | Current Position | Thesis & Publications |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nasrin Pak | 2022 | Postdoc at KIT Garmisch | Thesis: Quantifying Methane Emissions from the Greater Toronto Area Mostafavi Pak, N., S. Heerah, J. Zhang, E. Chan, D. Worthy, F. Vogel, and D. Wunch (2021), The Facility Level and Area Methane Emissions inventory for the Greater Toronto Area (FLAME-GTA), Atmos. Environ., 252(March), 118319, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2021.118319. Mostafavi Pak, N., Hedelius, J. K., Roche, S., Cunningham, L., Baier, B., Sweeney, C., Roehl, C., Laughner, J., Toon, G., Wennberg, P., Parker, H., Arrowsmith, C., Mendonca, J., Fogal, P., Wizenberg, T., Herrera, B., Strong, K., Walker, K. A., Vogel, F., and Wunch, D.: Using portable low-resolution spectrometers to evaluate Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) biases in North America, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 16, 1239–1261, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-1239-2023, 2023. |
| Sébastien Roche | 2021 | Scientist, MethaneSAT Science | Thesis: Measurements of Greenhouse Gases from Near-Infrared Solar Absorption Spectra Roche, S., Strong, K., Wunch, D., Mendonca, J., Sweeney, C., Baier, B., Biraud, S. C., Laughner, J. L., Toon, G. C., and Connor, B. J.: Retrieval of atmospheric CO2 vertical profiles from ground-based near-infrared spectra, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3087–3118, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3087-2021, 2021. |
Master's students
| Name | Program | Graduation Date | Thesis & Publications |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ceren Demirci | Physics | 2024 | Global and Regional CO2 Budget Analysis Using GEOS-Chem |
| William Ma | MES | 2024 | Heat Inequity and Community Vulnerability in Toronto |
| Sicheng Dai | MES | 2023 | Measuring and Comparing the Concentration of PM2.5 in the GTA using Low-cost Sensors |
| Jon-Paul Mastrogiacomo | Physics | 2022 | Methane enhancement ratios over Toronto |
| Lawson Gillespie | Physics | 2020 | Measurements of Greenhouse Gases in the Greater Toronto Area |
Postdoctoral Fellows
This table contains a list of former postdocs in the group, the dates they joined and left the group, and the publications that resulted form their postdoctoral work.
| Name | Dates | Current Position | Publications |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sina Voshtani | 2022-2024 | Research Scientist at ECCC | Voshtani et al. Quantifying CO emissions from boreal wildfires by assimilating TROPOMI and TCCON observations, submitted to ACP, 2025. |
| Erik Lutsch | 2019-2022 | Research Scientist at ECCC | Lutsch et al. Can the data assimilation of CO from MOPITT or IASI constrain high-latitude wildfire emissions? A Case Study of the 2017 Canadian Wildfires. Under review. |
| Sébastien Ars | 2018-2019 | Physical scientist at ECCC | Sébastien Ars, Felix Vogel, Colin Arrowsmith, Sajjan Heerah, Emily Knuckey, Juliette Lavoie, Christopher Lee, Nasrin Mostafavi Pak, Jaden L. Phillips, and Debra Wunch. Investigation of the Spatial Distribution of Methane Sources in the Greater Toronto Area Using Mobile Gas Monitoring Systems. Environmental Science & Technology 2020 54 (24), 15671-15679 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c05386 |
| Joseph Mendonca | 2017-2019 | Research Scientist at ECCC | Mendonca, J., Nassar, R., O'Dell, C. W., Kivi, R., Morino, I., Notholt, J., Petri, C., Strong, K., and Wunch, D.: Assessing the feasibility of using a neural network to filter Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) retrievals at northern high latitudes, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 7511–7524, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-7511-2021, 2021. |
| Jacob Hedelius | 2017-2019 | Calibration Engineer and Data Scientist at the Space Dynamics Laboratory | Hedelius, J. K., Toon, G. C., Buchholz, R. R., Iraci, L. T., Podolske, J. R., Roehl, C. M., et al. (2021). Regional and urban column CO trends and anomalies as observed by MOPITT over 16 years. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2020JD033967. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033967 Hedelius, J. K., He, T.-L., Jones, D. B. A., Baier, B. C., Buchholz, R. R., De Mazière, M., Deutscher, N. M., Dubey, M. K., Feist, D. G., Griffith, D. W. T., Hase, F., Iraci, L. T., Jeseck, P., Kiel, M., Kivi, R., Liu, C., Morino, I., Notholt, J., Oh, Y.-S., Ohyama, H., Pollard, D. F., Rettinger, M., Roche, S., Roehl, C. M., Schneider, M., Shiomi, K., Strong, K., Sussmann, R., Sweeney, C., Té, Y., Uchino, O., Velazco, V. A., Wang, W., Warneke, T., Wennberg, P. O., Worden, H. M., and Wunch, D.: Evaluation of MOPITT Version 7 joint TIR–NIR XCO retrievals with TCCON, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 5547–5572, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-5547-2019, 2019. Hedelius, Jacob; Wunch, Debra, 2019, "Mass conserving quartic-spline and linear interpolation techniques over variable width partitions", https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/57ROYV, Scholars Portal Dataverse, V1 |
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