Kwok P. Chun (Sun) has a first class degree from the University of Hong Kong and holds a PhD and MSc in Environmental Engineering with distinction from Imperial College London. Before joining the CERC program, Sun worked for consultants Arup and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.  

Chun’s research interests are in statistical downscaling of climate scenarios for the assessment of nonstationary hydrological characteristics, including flood and drought. As the future hydrological cycle is uncertain under anthropogenic influence, Sun’s current projects will qualify and quantify risks, extremes and irreversible change related to natural processes in Canada and other parts of the world.

Julian Klaus completed his PhD in 2011 at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. 

His research aims to understand the fundamental behaviour of watersheds, including the processes that generate streamflow and the time the water takes to travel to catchments. This knowledge helps to better understand the impact of climate change on headwaters and can improve water management. 

Muluneh Mekonnen's expertise is on land surface, hydrological, hydrodynamic and water quality model development, integration and application. It is entirely based on open source code development and application. Muluneh's research interest is to advance eco-region based (and numerical weather prediction model driven) hydrology and land surface modeling for Canadian water basins. He is currently involved in developing the science within the land surface schemes in the context of a program of research aiming to simulate the wate rand energy cycle in the Saskatchewan River Basin. This includes algorithm development, implementation and testing for state of the art process representation as well as addressing issues of model complexity and scale, model calibration and uncertainty.

Muluneh holds a PhD in Land and Water Resources Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, an MSc in Advanced Water Resources Engineering from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium and a BSc in Civil Engineering from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. 

Nicole Michel is originally from Portland, OR, USA. She received a BS in Biology from Willamette University in Salem, OR; worked for the Institute for Bird Populations in Point Reyes Station, CA; then completed her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA. 

Her research interests are in avian population and community ecology, specifically identifying mechanisms driving population declines of temperate and tropical birds on local and landscape scales. 

Dr. Sagin is a hydrologist with ten years of experience in natural resource project management, quantitative hydrology and hydrogeology, geochemistry and extensive experience in GIS modeling with comprehensive mathematical analysis. Dr. Sagin specializes in Remote Sensing and GIS applications. He has applied this expertise to a wide variety of projects involving GIS. 

Currently he is assessing links between water, animals and people within the Saskatchewan River Delta. He is responsible for the hydrological regime studies with applications of Remote Sensing and GIS. 

Jay completed his PhD in Geological Sciences at Western Michigan University and his master's in Natural Resources and Environment Management at Ball State University in Indiana.

Graham Strickert is a social-systems scientist and research coordinator for collaborative research about wicked problems in human-environmental systems. Strickert achieved an Honours Bachelor of Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism and a Bachelor of Geography from Lakehead University. Later he received a postgraduate certificate in Applied Science from Lincoln University, New Zealand, where he also completed a PhD in Complex Systems. Specifically, his PhD focused on human-environmental sytems examining the institutional dynamics of culture related to compounding natural hazards in mountainous areas using a development mixed-method approach. 

Strickert joined the U of S in 2011 as a post doctoral fellow in Socio-hydrology to lead a project entitled A Collaborative Approach to Defining Water Security for the Saskatchewan River Basin. He is also a research affiliate and external thesis advisor with Lakehead University's Department of Geography and Lincoln University's Faculty of Environment, Society and Design. He has worked in the public sector for groups such as Northshore of Lake Superior Remedial Action Plans, LandCare Research Inc., New Zealand and the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. He has also worked in the private sector for Ure-Tech Surfaces Inc and Janssen-Ortho Biotec (Johnson & Johnson).