Curriculum Vitae

Author

Dr. June Skeeter

View the .pdf version of my CV here or an abbreviated resume here

Education

PhD Geography, University of British Columbia (UBC)

  • Using machine learning to identify and map controls of growing-season carbon dioxide and methane fluxes in the Mackenzie Delta region
 2023

MsC Geography, University of South Carolina (USC)

  • Ammonium Concentrations Above a Louisiana Sugarcane Field
 2015

BS Geography & BS Earth Science, Salisbury University (SU)

  • Minor in Statistics
  • Graduated Cum Laude
 2013

Employment

Research Scientist: Natural Resources Canada

  • Leading Eddy Covariance (EC) Research Program in Western Canadian Arctic
  • Investigating Geologic Methane Emissions in the Mackenzie Delta Region
  • Advising territorial and indigenous governments on climate mitigation
  • Developing open access tools to facilitate data processing
 2024+

Postdoctoral Researcher: University of British Columbia (UBC)

  • Automated, parallelized, and streamlined data processing pipeline
  • Implemented and managed version control (git/github) for lab’s codebase
  • Managed EC stations in Burn’s Bog Ecological Conservancy Area
  • Mentored graduate students
 2023-2024

Sessional Instructor UBC

 2020-2024
Graduate Assistant UBC Library Research Commons 2020-2022
Teaching Assistant UBC Geography Department 2015-2019
Research Assistant University of South Carolina 2013-2015

Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles

Exler, J. L., Skeeter, J., Christen, A., & Moore, R. D. (2025). Interannual climatic sensitivity of surface energy flux densities and evapotranspiration in a disturbed and rewetted ombrotrophic bog. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 367, 110501. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110501
Thayamkottu, S., Masta, M., Skeeter, J., Pärn, J., Knox, S. H., Smallman, T. L., & Mander, Ü. (2025). Dual controls of vapour pressure deficit and soil moisture on photosynthesis in a restored temperate bog. Science of The Total Environment, 963, 178366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.178366
Skeeter, J., Christen, A., & Henry, G. (2023). Modelling growing season carbon fluxes at a low-center polygon ecosystem in the Mackenzie River Delta. Arctic Science, 9(3), 689–709. https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2022-0033
Skeeter, J., Christen, A., & Henry, G. H. R. (2022). Controls on carbon dioxide and methane fluxes from a low-center polygonal peatland in the Mackenzie River Delta, Northwest Territories. Arctic Science, 8(2), 471–497. https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2021-0034
Skeeter, J., Christen, A., LaForce, A.-A., Humphreys, E., & Henry, G. H. R. (2020). Vegetation influence and environmental controls on greenhouse gas fluxes from a drained thermokarst lake in the western Canadian Arctic. Biogeosciences, 17(17), 4421–4441. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-4421-2020
Skeeter, J., Parnell, D. B., & Skeeter, B. R. (2016). A Fog Climatology of the Delmarva Peninsula. The Geographical Bulletin, 57(2), 65–75. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1845101484/abstract/A0CE794EC54E4E8BPQ/1
Skeeter, J. (2013). Using Radar Composites to Detect Variances in Precipitation from Cold Fronts Across the Chesapeake Bay: April Through October from 1997 to 2011. Pennsylvania Geographer, 51(1), 73–86.

Book chapter

Skeeter, J., & Pickell, P. (2022). Chapter 3 Data Types and Spatial Data Models. In Geomatics for Environmental Management: An Open Textbook for Students and Practitioners. https://www.opengeomatics.ca/types-of-data.html

Presentations

Research Talks

Skeeter, June. (2025, March). Understanding Methane and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the Mackenzie Delta Region. Presented at the Frank Butara Visist: Associate Director General of NRCan Communications and Portfolio Services in Vancouver BC, Vancouver BC. https://june-skeeter.github.io/MackenzieDeltaFluxes
Skeeter, J. (2024, October). An Application Program Interface for Automating and Parallelizing EddyPro®. Presented at the FLUXNET-CH4 V2.0 Data Processing Workshop in Berkley, CA, Berkley, CA. https://canflux.github.io/EddyPro_API/Documentation/about.html
Skeeter, June. (2023, December). Tools and Guidance for Applying Neural Networks to Eddy Covariance Data. Presented at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco, CA. https://june-skeeter.github.io/NN_Applications/
Skeeter, June, & Knox, S. (2023, May). A Framework for Applying Neural Networks to Eddy Covariance Data. Presented at the Canadian Geophysical Union annual meeting in Banff, AB.
Skeeter, June, & Knox, S. (2023, April). Ongoing and Proposed Research in the Burns Bog Ecological Conservancy Area. Presented at the CLASSIC/COHERENT-C Workshop in Victoria, BC. https://ubc-micromet.github.io/BBECA_Work/
Skeeter, June. (2021, October). Compiling and Mapping Police Involved Deaths: Systemic Racism in Canadian Policing. Presented at the Western Association of Map Librarians annual meeting in Vancouver, BC.
Skeeter, June. (2021, April). Police Killings and Systemic Racism in Canadian Policing. Presented at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting in *virtual.
Ahmed, M., & Skeeter, J. (2019, October). How Can I Reduce My Carbon Footprint? Presented at the EcoCity World Summit in Vancouver, BC.
Skeeter, June. (2018, April). Growing Season Carbon Balance of a Permafrost Peatland in the Mackenzie River Delta. Poster presented at the European Geophysical Union annual meeting in Vienna, AT, Poster.
Skeeter, June. (2017, December). Growing Season Carbon Balance of a Mackenzie River Delta Peatland. Presented at the ArcticNet annual meeting in Quebec City, QC.
Skeeter, June. (2017, May). Vegetation Influence and Environmental Controls on Greenhouse Gas Fluxes from a Drained Thermokarst Lake in the Mackenzie River Delta, NWT. Presented at the Canadian Geophysical Union annual meeting in Vancouver, BC.
Skeeter, June. (2016, December). Carbon Dioxide and Methane fluxes at Illisarvik 2016. Presented at the ArcticNet annual meeting in Winnipeg, MB, Winnipeg, MB.
Skeeter, June. (2014, May). Identifying Source Areas of Ammonium Concentrations Sampled Above a Louisiana Sugarcane Field. Presented at the 31st Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology in Portland OR, Portland OR.
Skeeter, June. (2014, April). Identifying Source Areas of Ammonium Concentrations Sampled Above a Louisiana Sugarcane Field. Presented at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Tampa, FL.
Skeeter, June. (2013, April). Fog Climatology of Salisbury, MD. Presented at the Salisbury University Student Research Conference in Salisbury MD, Salisbury MD.
Skeeter, June. (2013, April). Using Radar Composites to Detect Variances in Precipitation from Cold Fronts Across the Chesapeake Bay: April through October from 1997 to 2012. Presented at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Los Angeles CA, Los Angeles CA.
Skeeter, June. (2013, April). Using Radar Composites to Detect Variances in Precipitation from Cold Fronts Across the Chesapeake Bay: April through October from 1997 to 2012. Presented at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Los Angeles CA, Los Angeles CA.

Guest Lectures

Skeeter, J. (2023, February). Open Source GIS. Presented at the UBC CAPACITY workshop event in Vancouver, BC. https://june-skeeter.github.io/OpenSourceGIS/
Skeeter, J. (2022, March). Remote Sensing in Atmospheric Sciences. Presented at the Guest lecture, GEOS 373 in Vancouver, BC.
Skeeter, J. (2020, November). Data Normalization & Classification: Police Violence in North America. Presented at the Guest lecture, GEOS 270 in Vancouver, BC. https://ubc-lib-geo.github.io/Data-Normalization-Classification/
Skeeter, J. (2020, November). Remote Sensing in Atmospheric Sciences. Presented at the Guest lecture, GEOS 373 in Vancouver, BC.
Skeeter, J. (2017, July). Greenhouse Gas Exchange in the Outer Mackenzie Delta. Presented at the Aurora Research Institute Summer Speakers Series in Inuvik, NT, Inuvik, NT.

Poster Presentations

Morse, P. D., Dallimore, S., Gordial, J., Lapham, L., MacLeod, R., Mollica, L., Norooz Oliaee, J., van der Sanden, J., et al. (2024, November). Collaborative Studies to appraise methane release from degrading permafrost, western Canadian Arctic. Poster presented at the Yellowknife Geoscience Forum in Yelowkife, NT, Poster, Yelowkife, NT. https://event.fourwaves.com/ygf2024/abstracts/0ff20029-97a5-418b-b374-f87eb9a2c5a4
Skeeter, J. (2018, April). Growing Season Carbon Balance of a Permafrost Peatland in the Mackenzie River Delta. Poster presented at the European Geophysical Union annual meeting in Vienna, AT, Poster.
Skeeter, J. (2016, December). Carbon Dioxide and Methane fluxes at Illisarvik 2016. Presented at the ArcticNet annual meeting in Winnipeg, MB, Winnipeg, MB.
Skeeter, J. (2014, November). Source Areas of Ammonium Sampled Above a Louisiana Sugarcane Field. Poster presented at the South Eastern Division of the Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Roanoke VA, Poster, Roanoke VA.
Skeeter, J. (2012, November). Using Radar Composites Created in Model Builder to Perform Statistical Analyses of Cold Frontal Precipitation Events in the Chesapeake Bay Region: April through October 1997-2011. Presented at the South Eastern Division of the Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Asheville NC, Asheville NC.
Skeeter, J. (2011, October). The Possible Differing Influence of the Chesapeake Bay on Frontal and Squall Line Precipitation Events (April-October). Presented at the Middle Atlantic Division of the Association of American Geographers annual meeting in College Park, MD.

Technical Skills

Programming & Markup Languages Software & Applications Field & Research Methods
Python (15+ yrs) ArcGIS & QGIS (10+ yrs) Eddy Covariance (10+ yrs)
Matlab Git & GitHub (10+ yrs) Machine Learning (5+ yrs)
R (5+ yrs) Google Earth Engine Flux Chamber Sampling
Fortran Quarto Soil Carbon Sampling
Javascript Mapbox API Image Classification
CRBasic Loggernet Process-based Modelling
HTML/CSS Eddy Pro Footprint Modelling
Markdown Drone Surveying
Latex


Volunteer Work and Committee Positions

Advisory Board Northwest Territories Landscape Carbon Conference 2024 - 2025
Western Director, Canadian Society for Agriculture and Forest Meteorology 2023 - 2024
Police Involved Deaths in Canada Database 2020 - 2022
Graduate Committee Representative, UBC Geography 2019 - 2020
Climate Consultant, EcoMeet App 2019
Co-chair, UBC Geography Graduate Student Association 2018 - 2018
USC Geography Departmental Outreach Committee 2018 - 2018

Awards

Open Educational Resource Champion, UBC Alma Mater Society 2022
Four-year Doctoral Fellowship, UBC 2015 - 2019
Graduate Assistanceship Award, UBC 2013 - 2015
Presidential Scholarship, SU 2009 - 2013
Four-time AAG World Geography Bowls All Star Team Member 2009 - 2013
Outstanding Graduating Senior Award, SU Geography 2013
Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, SU Geography 2013
1st Place Student Paper Mid Atlantic Division AAG Annual Meeting 2012
Donald Lee Schul Jr. Memorial Wrestling Scholarship, SU 2009