Conor is a PhD candidate in the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). Conor’s research focuses on the impact of climate change on populations in the Peruvian Amazon. In particular, Conor is interested in the impacts of the changing global climate on hydrological extremes (floods and droughts) in the Amazon region, and the impacts of these extremes on forest structure, and human health and livelihoods of vulnerable populations in rainforest ecosystems.
PhD candidate, Environmental Science (expected), 2020
University of Toronto Scarborough
BSc in International Development Studies (co-op specialist), major in Environmental Biology, 2012
University of Toronto Scarborough
An interview with UTSC Communications regarding my recent analysis of heat warning weather at Toronto Pearson
An analysis of heat warning weather over the past 30 years at Toronto Pearson
Examining the available hydrological data for a local study in Peru.
A Python program and standalone command-line executable to search for and download historical Canadian climate data from Environment and Climate Change Canada’s historical data archive
A open-source platform for the visualization, analysis, and sub-setting of CMIP5 climate data.
Additional functions for G. L. Simpson’s canadaHCD package for acquiring Canadian climate data
A collection of functions to obtain Peruvian climatological or hydrological data from the Peruvian National Meterology and Hydrology Service
Collected functions developed at the University of Toronto Climate lab.
I am a teaching assistant for the following courses at UTSC: