Current Lab Members
Associate Professor
Department of Geography & Environment and Department of Biology, Western University
Email: nmacbean@uwo.ca
Bluesky: @nmacbean.bsky.social
Address: Social Science Centre Rm 2322, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C2
Research interests: global carbon cycle, climate change, vegetation dynamics, (eco)hydrology, physiology, CO2 fertilization, climate and environmental change, land management, terrestrial biosphere and earth system modeling, data assimilation, remote sensing.
Postdocs
Raj Deepak S. N.
Western University Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Geography and Environment, Western University.
Email: mjoshi65@uwo.ca
Research Interests: Land Surface Modeling; Parameter Sensitivity and Uncertainty.
Lead of the Calibrated Land Model Intercomparison Project (CalLMIP) 1st Phase.
Graduate Students
Mohan Joshi
PhD Student
Department of Geography and Environment, Western University.
Email: mjoshi65@uwo.ca
Thesis Topic: Modeling forest management impacts on carbon sequestration.
Joy Kehinde Adebisi
PhD Student
Department of Geography and Environment, Western University.
Email: jadebis2@uwo.ca
Thesis Topic: Modeling dryland soil carbon cycling and responses to rainfall pulses.
Research Interests: Biogeochemistry, CO_{2} flux monitoring, modelling and measurement.
Liam Bogucki
MSc Student
(Formerly Western Undergraduate Summer Research Intern (USRI) 2024)
Department of Biology, Western University.
Email: lboguck@uwo.ca
Thesis topic: Implementing dryland biological soil crusts in terrestrial biosphere models.
Samantha Hopkins
PhD Student
(Formerly Post-Graduate Research Assistant, 2025)
Department of Biology, Western University.
Email: shopki23@uwo.ca
Research Topic: Understanding and modelling the effects of disturbance on carbon, water, and vegetation cycles in North American grasslands.
Undergraduate Students
Ellen Huang
Honours Thesis Student
(Formerly Western Undergraduate Summer Research Intern (USRI) (2025) in the Faculty of Science, Western University).
Program: Honours Specialization in Computer Science.
Research Topic: Examining climate and phenological categorization of C3 vs. C4 vegetation to inform terrestrial biosphere modeling.
Samantha Sharp
Honours Thesis Student
(Formerly Western Undergraduate Summer Research Intern (USRI) (2025) in the Faculty of Social Science, Western University).
Program: Honours Specialization in Geographic Information Science (GIS).
Research Topic: Evaluating process-based terrestrial biosphere modeling of dryland fire burnt area.
Whitney Onoberhie
Work Study Student
(Formerly NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Associate (USRA) (2025) in the Faculty of Social Science, Western University).
Program: Honours Specialization in Computer Science with a minor in Software Engineering and a diploma in French Studies.
Research Topic: Assessment of terrestrial biosphere model trends in dryland gross primary productivity.
Past Lab Members
Rubaya Pervin
PhD Student (2018-2025)
Department of Geography, Indiana University – Bloomington.
Now: Research Assistant Professor at Texas A&M.
Thesis Topic: Mapping and Modelling Dryland Vegetation and Carbon Cycle Patterns and Processes.
Camellia Naderi
Undergraduate Summer Research Assistant and Honors Thesis (2023-2024)
Department of Geography and Environment, Western University.
Research interests: environmental change, ecosystem functioning, and biodiversity conservation.
Natalia Porro
Western Undergraduate Summer Research Intern (USRI) (2024) in the Faculty of Social Science, Western University.
Kashif Mahmud
Postdoctoral Researcher (2019-2022)
Department of Geography, Indiana University – Bloomington.
Now: Assistant Professor in the Kimbell School of Geosciences at Midwestern State University. Kashif’s Remote Sensing and Modeling Lab website.
Heidi Takada
Undergraduate in Geography and
IU 2020 Sustainability Scholar (2018-2019)
Now at: Carbon Neutral Indiana
Lab Group Address
Social Science Centre Rm 2322, Western University,
London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 5C2.
The MacBean Lab 