Jane Shaw MacDonald | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University

Dr Jane Shaw MacDonald is a PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow working at Simon Fraser University. She is largely interested in numerical analysis and computational sciences and her research is typically motivated by biological phenomena. She earned her PhD at the University of Ottawa (2022) where her project centred around the mathematical modelling of moving-habitat models and the development, analysis, and application of numerical methods to these models. Now she is working on topics within the immersed boundary method and computational fluid dynamics and is focusing on the numerical analysis of line source regularisations and mathematical models of nordic skiing.

Dr MacDonald is passionate about community and works to create community spaces that are inclusive to all. At the University of Ottawa she co-founded the program Math to Power Her Life, a program for self-identifying middle school girls to explore mathematics as a career. This program is continuing on at the University of Ottawa and is for the first time running in the Okanagan Valley in partnership with West Coast Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology and the University of British Columbia - Okanagan Campus.

The Earth is warming and temperature isoclines are shifting. Empirical evidence suggests that shifting speeds of temperature isoclines are accelerating, are elevation- dependent, and that there is annualvariation around the expected location of the...

TBC This event is part of the Emergent Research: The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Colloquium Series.

Biological populations are responding to climate-driven habitat shifts by either adapting in place or moving in space to follow their suitable temperature regime. The shifting speeds of temperature isoclines fluctuate in time and empirical evidence...