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Bryan Mood is a forest ecologist and climate scientist whose research and teaching focus on the impact of climate change on renewable resources, such as rangelands and forests. He completed his Ph.D. in Physical Geography at the University of Victoria in 2019, followed by a post-doctoral position at the University of Saskatchewan from 2019 to 2021. From 2021 to 2023, he was part of Stantec's national Climate Risk, Resilience, and Sustainability team. Growing up in southwestern Nova Scotia, Bryan developed a passion for exploring forested wetlands. His research interests focus on complementary areas: climate-growth relationships in trees and paleoclimate tree-ring reconstructions, which help understand hydrological and hydroclimate variability. His work on climate-growth relationships explores the impact of severe weather events and disturbances on plant physiology and carbon allocation. Bryan's paleoclimate tree-ring reconstructions leverage these relationships to hindcast environmental records, providing insights into past variability of limited observed records from weather stations. His research supports evidence-based resource management policies and planning that relate to the impacts of climate change.
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