CV

Education

• Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)
• M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
• B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012

Work experience

• Spring 2024: Academic Pages Collaborator
  • GitHub University
  • Duties includes: Updates and improvements to template
  • Supervisor: The Users
• Fall 2015: Research Assistant
  • GitHub University
  • Duties included: Merging pull requests
  • Supervisor: Professor Hub
• Summer 2015: Research Assistant
  • GitHub University
  • Duties included: Tagging issues
  • Supervisor: Professor Git

Skills

• Skill 1
• Skill 2
  • Sub-skill 2.1
  • Sub-skill 2.2
  • Sub-skill 2.3
• Skill 3

Publications

Tropical and subtropical drylands dominate the interannual variability in global net terrestrial carbon flux irrespective of different global ecosystem classifications or geographic scales

Bogucki, L., Feldman, A., Moore, D.J.P., Amaral, C., Wang, L., Green, J., Babst, F., Ojima, D., Pervin, R., Reed, S., Smith, W.K., Zhang, W. and MacBean, N. (2026) Tropical and subtropical drylands dominate the interannual variability in global net terrestrial carbon flux irrespective of different global ecosystem classifications or geographic scales. Environmental Research: Climate, 5, 035049.

An Ehrlich-inspired retrobiosynthesis of pharmaceutical scaffolds

Rumpl, A., Kowalski, D., Goodhew, J., Hirano, M., Bogucki, L., Rosa, C., Lachance, M.A., Pyne, M. (2025) An Ehrlich-inspired retrobiosynthesis of pharmaceutical scaffolds. In revision for Nature Communications.

Importance of plant functional type, dynamic vegetation, and fire interactions for process-based modeling of gross carbon uptake across the drylands of western North America

Pervin, R., Robeson, S., Barnes, M., Sitch, S., Walker, A.P., Poulter, B., Maignan, F., Sun, Q., Colligan, T., Zaehle, S., Mahmud, K., Anthoni, P., Arneth, A., Arora, V.K., Bastrikov, V., Bogucki, L., Decharme, B., Delire, C., Falk, S., Ito, A., Kato, E., Kennedy, D., Knauer, J., O’Sullivan, M., Yuan, W. and MacBean, N. (2025) Importance of plant functional type, dynamic vegetation, and fire interactions for process-based modeling of gross carbon uptake across the drylands of western North America. In revision for Biogeosciences.

Talks

Adding Biological Soil Crust Representation to the CLASSIC Terrestrial Biosphere Model to Improve Dryland Carbon Flux Simulations

July 05, 2026

Poster Presentation at Ecological Forecasting Initiative Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada

Adding Biological Soil Crust Representation to the CLASSIC Terrestrial Biosphere Model to Improve Dryland Carbon Flux Simulations

April 16, 2026

Poster Presentation at COHERENT-C / CLASSIC 5th Annual Workshop, Victoria, BC, Canada

The Dominant Role of Drylands in Global Net Carbon Flux Interannual Variability Persists With Different Dryland Biome Classifications

December 16, 2025

Oral Presentation at American Geophysical Union Annual Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA

Recent and upcoming advances in the understanding of terrestrial ecosystem processes through dynamic global vegetation models

November 21, 2025

Keynote Oral Presentation at University Students' Council EnviroUSC and GreenSort Case Competition, London, ON, Canada

Tropical drylands dominate global net carbon flux interannual variability irrespective of different biome definitions and geographic scales

November 21, 2025

Oral Presentation at Biology Graduate Research Forum, London, ON, Canada

Drylands or Tropical Forests: Identifying the Dominant Contributor to Interannual Carbon Flux Variation Across Multiple Definitions

September 21, 2024

Poster Presentation at Western Student Research Conference, London, ON, Canada

Drylands and Tropical Forests: Determining Which Region Contributes More to Interannual Carbon Flux Variability Across Different Definitions

July 19, 2024

Poster Presentation at Undergraduate Student Research Internship Conference, Western University, London, ON, Canada

Development of Bioengineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the Biosynthesis of Ephedrine & Related Alkaloids

March 23, 2024

Oral Presentation at Ontario Biology Day 2024, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Teaching

Teaching assistant - Bio3425G ‘Global Change Biology’

Teaching assistant - Bio2483A ‘Ecology’

Service and leadership

• Currently signed in to 43 different slack teams