Career Paths After Graduation

Figuring out what career path is right for you can be a daunting task after graduation. With this workshop we seek to empower graduate students and post-docs with information on potential opportunities within and outside of academia. The structure will be a 1.5 hour workshop with 5 presenters who will give a 5-10 minute talk about their career and career path. After the talks, we will host a Q and A with the audience. If you ever had any questions about what life is like in industry, academia, and government, this workshop is for you! This workshop is free and open to everyone registered for CGU.

Speaker List:

Magali Nehemy (Academia): Magali is an ecohydrologist at Trent School of the Environment, Trent University. Before joining Trent University in July 2022, Magali was a postdoctoral fellow at the Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon. Magali was a Voices For Science (AGU) advocate (2021-2022) and a science mentor to the Students on the Beamline program at the Canadian Light Source.

Maria Strack (Academia): Maria Strack, is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Ecosystems and Climate

at University of Waterloo. She started her career as an academic in 2007 and since then has worked with her research group to study wetland carbon cycling and greenhouse gas exchange under various disturbance regimes.

Danielle Hudson (Government): Danielle completed her Master's in the McMaster Ecohydrology Lab where she got her start studying the ecohydrology of peatlands and rock barrens on the eastern shores of Georgian Bay. Following completion of her MSc in 2020 she began her current role as a physical hydrologist with the Canadian Forest Service, based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. In this role she manages hydrometric data from the experimental Turkey Lakes Watershed and assists research scientists with data collection and analysis, as well as paper writing.

Prabin Rokaya (Government): Prabin is currently employed by the government of Alberta as a Transboundary Water Specialist. Prabin is also a Core Modelling Coordinator of the Global Water Futures Program. He previously worked as a Research Hydrologist with the Global Institute for Water Security and prior to that, was a post-doctoral fellow with the School of Environment and Sustainability. Prabin’s expertise is on hydrology, watershed modelling, river ice processes and flood risk management.

Matt Chernos (Industry): Matt is a hydrologist specializing in hydrological modelling, mountain watershed processes, and river geomorphology. His work is grounded in the fundamentals of process-based hydrology and combines field experience with quantitative modelling. His work focuses on improving our understanding of the interactions between climate, land use, natural disturbances, and water.