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Dery, Stephen

Contact Information
Dery, Stephen
Position: Associate Professor
Faculty/Department: Environmental Science and Engineering
Institution/Organization: University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)
Phone Number: 250-960-5193
Fax: 250-960-5845
Email: sdery@unbc.ca
Website: http://nhg.unbc.ca
Address:
3333 University Way
Prince George
British Columbia
Canada
V2N 4Z9
  

General Information
Languages: English, French
Field(s) of Research:
Atmosphere and Atmospheric Processes
Climate Change and Impacts
Climate Variability
Climatology
Environmental Change
Hydrology
Meteorology

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Research Keywords

snow, ice, permafrost, glaciers, hydrometeorology, Arctic, climate change, climate variability

Education & Employment

Employment:

Assistant/Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Northern Hydrometeorology, University of Northern British Columbia, Jul. 2005-Present.

Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University, Feb. 2004-Present.

Visiting Research Scientist, Princeton University, Jan. 2004-Jun. 2005

Post-Doctoral Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Dec. 2000-Dec. 2003.

Project Scientist, York University, Nov. 1994-Aug. 1996.

Research Scientist, Technical University of Budapest, summer of 1994.

Meteorological Technician, Ontario Hydro, summers of 1991 and 1992.

Education:

Ph.D., McGill University, 1996-2001.

Master's of Science, York University, 1991-1994.

Bachelor's of Science, York University, 1987-1991.

Courses Taught Related to Climate Change Solutions

-ENSC 312: Boundary Layer Meteorology
-ENSC 408/608: Storms
-ENSC 454/654: Snow and Ice

Publications

1) Déry, S. J., Stahl, K., Moore, R. D., Whitfield, P. H., Menounos, B. and Burford, J. E., 2009: Detection of runoff timing changes in pluvial, nival and glacial rivers of western Canada, Water Resour. Res., .45, W04426, doi:10.1029/2008WR006975

2)Shi, X., Groisman, P. Ya., Déry, S. J., and Lettenmaier, D. P., 2011: The role of surface energy fluxes in pan-Arctic snow cover changes, Env. Res. Lett., 6, 035204.

3) Déry, S. J., Mlynowski, T. J., Hernández-Henríquez, M. A., and Straneo, F., 2011: Interannual variability and interdecadal trends in Hudson Bay streamflow, J. Mar. Systems, 88, 341-351.

4) Tong, J., Déry, S. J., and Jackson, P. J., 2009: Topographic control of snow distribution in an alpine watershed of western Canada inferred from spatially-filtered MODIS snow products, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. , 13, 319-326.

5) Burford, J. E., Déry, S. J., and Holmes, R. D., 2009: Some aspects of the hydroclimatology of the Quesnel River Basin, British Columbia, Canada, Hydrol. Proc., 23, doi: 10.1002/hyp.7253.

6) Déry, S. J., Hernández-Henríquez, M. A., Burford, J. E., and Wood, E. F., 2009: Observational evidence of an intensifying hydrological cycle in northern Canada, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L13402, doi: 10.1029/2009GL038852.

Collaborative Activities

I am currently collaborating with the following researchers: Marc Stieglitz (Georgia Tech), Jessie Cherry (University of Alaska, Fairbanks), Brian Menounos (UNBC), Paul Whitfield (Environment Canada), Kerstin Stahl (University of Oslo), Dan Moore (UBC), Jason Burford (Environment Canada), Eric Wood (Princeton University), Fiamma Straneo (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute), Ross Brown (Ouranos), Nils Chr. Stenseth (University of Oslo), Peter Stott (Liverpool John Moores University), Phil Owens (UNBC).

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