911³Ô¹Ï

Program: PhD

Supervisor: Dr. Kirsten Zickfeld

Education: 

·         M.Sc., Climate Science, 911³Ô¹Ï, 2025

·         B.Sc., Physical Geography, 911³Ô¹Ï, 2021

·         MFA, Creative Writing, University of British Columbia, 2010

·         BFA, Creative Writing, University of British Columbia, 2008 

Personal website: 

Research description/interests:

Climate scientist specializing in Earth system model simulation analysis of carbon dioxide removal, with a focus on biosphere response to temperature stabilization and overshoot pathways, hydrologic cycle feedbacks, land–atmosphere interactions, and Coupled Model Intercomparison Project multi-model ensembles. Contributing to CMIP7-relevant methodologies and large-scale climate intervention analysis.

Biography: 

Christine Leclerc lives in Coast Salish Homelands / Burnaby, B.C. She is an award-winning author and science communicator who studies terrestrial biosphere response to temperature stabilization and overshoot, peak, and decline pathways at 911³Ô¹Ï’s Climate Research Lab. In addition, is the president of the Geography Graduate Student Association, a FENV Graduate Studies Committee graduate student representative, North America representative with the YESS early career researcher network, and a research fellow with the World Climate Research Programme’s Fresh Eyes on CMIP initiative. She is a past member of 911³Ô¹Ï’s Hydrology Research Group and has served as an Expert Reviewer with the IPCC, an inaugural cohort member of Evidence for Democracy‘s Science to Policy Accelerator, and on the non-profit boards of Embark Sustainability and Sierra Club BC.

Publications:

Mortezapour, M., Zickfeld, K., Arora, V. K., and Leclerc, C.: Global and Regional Hydroclimatic Responses to Alternative Global Reforestation Pathways, EGUsphere [preprint], , 2026.  

Katzenberger, A., Pérez-Carrasquilla, J. S., Gemmell, K., Galytska, E., Leclerc, C., P, P., Roy, I., Varuolo-Clarke, A., ToÅ¡ić, M., and Črnivec, N.: Developing Guidelines for working with Multi-Model Ensembles in CMIP, Earth Syst. Dynam., 17, 495–532, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-17-495-2026, 2026.  

Lapides, D., Leclerc, C.D., Moidu, H., Dralle, D., and Hahm, W.J. 2021. Variability of headwater stream network extents controlled by flow regime and network hydraulic scaling. Hydrological Processes. Available from .

Leclerc, C.D. 2020. Comprehensive network hydraulic scaling datasets and associated resources (discharge, channel length surveys, watershed metadata, blueline network shapefiles and reference images). HydroShare. doi:10.4211/hs.e1d5bff5f7b44e29bcf9d91757360f18.