Tyler Herrington is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Waterloo, in Physical Geography, where he is studying Arctic Climate Science. His dissertation research investigates the ability of reanalysis products and climate models to capture soil temperatures in permafrost environments. He is interested in how differences in the land models, which simulate aspects of earth surface, such as snow cover, vegetation, and the hydrology of the landscape, can account for differences in soil temperatures across different models. He completed a Bachelor's, and a Master's in Physical Geography at Simon University, where his thesis research focused on climate-carbon cycle feedbacks. Tyler has spent a couple of summers in the Arctic - once as a junior Geologist, assisting a junior mining firm in exploring for lead/zinc in the Yukon Mountains, and another summer in Nunavut, where he assisted with the reclamation of contaminated sites along former Distance Early Warning (DEW) Line radar stations.
