Education

​PhD, Geography
(collab. Global Health Systems)

(2014-2018)

​'Causes and consequences of soil carbon mobilization and lake brownification in northern forested landscapes' Link to thesis
Western University
(Canada)
 

MSc, Inland Water Quality Assessment

(2011-2013)
'Assessing hydromorphological restoration

of Dutch lowland streams'
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Mälardalen Högskola
(Spain; Sweden)

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BSc, Environmental Sciences 

(2005-2010)

Universitat de València​(Spain)

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Prog. Landscape Design

(2008)
Hämeen Ammattikorkeakoulu
(Finland)​​

Publications

Senar, O. E., Creed, I. F., Strandberg, U., Arts, M. T. (in press). Browning reduces the availability - but not the transfer - of essential fatty acids in temperate lakes. Freshwater Biology.

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Lamothe, K. A., Dong, H., Senar, O. E., Teichert, S., Creed, I. F., Kreutzweiser, D. P., Schmiegelow, F. K. A., Venier, L. (2018). Demand for non-provisioning ecosystem services as a driver of change in the Canadian boreal zone. Environmental Reviews. doi:10.1139/er-2018-0065

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Senar, O. E., Webster, K. L., & Creed, I. F. (2018). Catchment‐scale shifts in the magnitude and partitioning of carbon export in response to changing hydrologic connectivity in a northern hardwood forest. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences; 123(8): 2337- 2352. doi:10.1029/2018JG004468

*Featured on Eos Research Spotlights

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Creed, I. F., ... Senar, O. E., ... (2018). Global change‐driven effects on dissolved organic matter composition: Implications for food webs of northern lakes. Global Change Biology; 24(8): 3692-3714. doi:10.1111/gcb.14129

Experience

Course Instructor

Planetary Health - Field School in Africa

(2019-Present)

University of Saskatchewan

(Canada)

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Postdoctoral Associate

(2019-Present)
Western University
(Canada)

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Teaching Assistant

(2014-2018)
Geographic Information Science I

Introductory Biogeography

Paleolimnology and Global Environmental Change

Introduction to Environment and Development Challenges

Weather and Climate

Western University
(Canada)

Research Assistant

(2014) Western University (Canada)

(2012-2013) ​Alterra Research Center
(The Netherlands)
(2010) Karkonosze National Park (Poland)

Presentations

Senar O. E., Creed I. F., Strandberg, U., Arts, M. T. (2018). Brownification, production, and transfer of essential fatty acids in temperate lakes. American Geophysical Association Fall Meeting, December 10-14, Washington D.C. Poster

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Creed, I.F., Senar, O. E. (2018). “A tree falls the way it leans” - aquatic reactions to terrestrial actions. American Geophysical Association Fall Meeting, December 10-14, Washington D.C. Invited

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Senar, O. E., Creed, I.F. (2017). Catchment-fed cyanobacterial blooms in brownified temperate lakes. American Geophysical Association Fall Meeting, December 11-15, New Orleans, LA.

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Senar, O. E., Creed, I. F., Webster K. (2017). Climate driven changes in hydrological connectivity influences the magnitude and fate of carbon export in temperate forests. American Water Resources Association Spring Specialty Conference, April 30-May 3, Snowbird, UT. Invited

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Senar, O.E., Freeman, E. C., Creed, I. F., Trick, C.G. (2017). Brownification of surface waters promotes cyanobacteria in oligotrophic lakes. Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research - Society of Canadian Limnologists Meeting. January 5-8, Montreal, QC.

Senar, O. E., Creed, I. F., Kidd, K, Trick, C. G. (2016). Dissolved organic matter promotes cyanobacterial dominance in oligotrophic lakes. International Association of Great Lakes Research Meeting, June 6-10, Guelph, ON.

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Senar, O. E., Creed, I. F. (2015). Dissolved organic matter promotes cyanobacterial dominance in oligotrophic lakes. North American Lake Management Society. 35th International Symposium. November 17-20, Saratoga Springs, NY.

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