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Member Since 1992
Irena F. Creed
Vice-Principal Research & Innovation, University of Toronto
Professional Experience
University of Toronto
Vice-Principal Research & Innovation
2021 - Present
University of Saskatchewan
Associate Vice President Research
2019 - 2021
University of Saskatchewan
Executive Director, School of Environment and Sustainability
2017 - 2019
University of Western Ontario
Professor
1998 - 2017
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Education
Doctorate
1998
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2022
Citation
For pioneering discoveries in forest hydrology
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Current Roles
Chair
Horton Medal Committee
Publications
Wetland Carbon and Environmental Management
"Explores how the management of wetlands can influence carbon storage and fluxes....
October 15, 2021
AGU Abstracts
Rapidly Changing Forest Cover Results in Complex but Predictable Hydrologic Responses
UNDERSTANDING AND SCALING CATCHMENT RESPONSE TO DISTURBANCES I ORAL
hydrology | 11 december 2023
Irena F. Creed, Xiaohua Wei, Zhiqiang Zhang, Yipin...
Despite rapid, intensive, and expansive changes in global forest cover, we have inadequate understanding of how changes in forest cover affects the gl...
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Forest canopy growth mediates climate and CO2 induced water use efficiency effects on freshwater yield
CATCHMENT AND CRITICAL ZONE SCIENCE: UNDERSTANDING ECOSYSTEMS THROUGH MONITORING, ANALYSIS, AND EXPERIMENTATION III ORAL
hydrology | 11 december 2023
Taehee Hwang, Lawrence E. Band, Irena F. Creed, Ma...
Forests are crucial for the production of high-quality freshwater resources. Complex interactions between climate change and forest processes can resu...
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Vulnerable Waters – Headwater Streams and Non-Floodplain Wetlands - are Essential to Watershed Resilience
GLOBAL IMPACT OF NON-PERENNIAL WATERWAYS: INTEGRATING HYDROLOGICAL, GEOCHEMICAL, MICROBIOLOGICAL, AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES II POSTER
hydrology | 16 december 2022
Charles R. Lane, Irena F. Creed, Heather E. Golden...
Watershed resilience is the ability of a watershed to maintain its characteristic system state while concurrently resisting, adapting to, and reorgani...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2025
Chair
Horton Medal Committee
2019 - 2019
Member
Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award Committee
2017 - 2018
Member
Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award Committee
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