Natasha MacBean, Western University

Research

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Latest funding

Carbon-Water-Vegetation Interactions in Drylands and their Response to Climate and Environmental Change
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$80,000
Carbon-Water-Vegetation Interactions in Drylands and their Response to Climate and Environmental Change
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$12,500
Assessing the potential of enhanced forest management practices for offsetting greenhouse gas emissions using integrated multi-platform observations and carbon cycle models
NSERC · 2022 · Co-investigator
$745,280

All 3 grants and awards

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Carbon-Water-Vegetation Interactions in Drylands and their Response to Climate and Environmental Change

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: MacBean, Natasha

Keywords: dryland ecosystems; biogeochemical cycling; water cycling; vegetation dynamics; climate and environmental change; terrestrial biosphere modelling; data assimilation

$80,000

Carbon-Water-Vegetation Interactions in Drylands and their Response to Climate and Environmental Change

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Discovery Launch Supplement

Principal investigators: MacBean, Natasha

$12,500

Assessing the potential of enhanced forest management practices for offsetting greenhouse gas emissions using integrated multi-platform observations and carbon cycle models

Co-investigatorNSERC2022Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Arain, Muhammad Altaf MAA

Keywords: active and passive optical sensors; canadian land surface scheme; carbon sequestration; climate change impacts; eddy covariance technique; forest management; forest water use efficiency; net ecosystem productivity; remote sensing; solar-induced fluorescence (sif)

$745,280

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor MacBean, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Carbon-Water-Vegetation Interactions in Drylands and their Response to Climate and Environmental Change" (2023), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]