Biography: Magali Nehemy is an ecohydrologist and Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia Okanagan, appointed in 2025. She earned her PhD from the University of Saskatchewan in 2021, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Global Institute for Water Security (2022) and an Assistant Professorship at Trent University (2022–2025). She serves as co-chair of the Canadian Geophysical Union’s Committee on Isotope Tracers and as an executive member of the Union’s Hydrology Section. Nehemy is the principal investigator of the Hillslope Ecohydrology Research (H.E.R.) Lab. Her research integrates stable isotope tracing, field observations, and modeling to quantify plant–water interactions and climate controls on water resources across forested and savanna ecosystems. Her work has been recognized by early research career awards, including the Horton Hydrology Research Award from the American Geophysical Union (2019), the Young Minds Award by the International Society for Horticultural Science - Working Group: Plant Sensing Water Status (2019), and the Best Doctoral Thesis Award in Water Security Research, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan (2022).
Awards
Oral presentations
Best Doctoral Thesis Award in Water Security Research (2022)
Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan
Horton Hydrology Research Grant (2019)
American Geophysical Union
ISHS Young Minds Award (2019)
The International Society for Horticultural Science - XI International Workshop on Sap Flow
Global Engagement Scholarship (2019)
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Innovation & Opportunity Scholarship (2016)
Government of Saskatchewan
School of Environment and Sustainability Excellence Scholarship
School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan
Science Without Borders Scholarship (2013-2014)
National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq) - Brazil
Tutorial Program of Education (PET) Scholarship
Ministry of Science and Technology - Government of Brazil
Aug-2025 [invited] - Department of Geography, University of Leeds, UK
May-2025 - European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna
Apr-2025 - Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) 59th Congress, the Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU) Annual Meeting, Canada
Apr-2024 - Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU) Annual Meeting, Canada
May-2024 [Invited] - Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas (FCA), UNESP, Brazil
Jan-2024 [Invited] - Queens University
Dec-2023 [Invited] - American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Stable Isotopes in the Critical Zone: Methods, Applications, and Process
Dec-2023 [Invited] - American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Advances in Tracer Methods and Modeling of Hydrological Processes, Chemical Weathering, and Hydrochronology
Oct-2023 [Invited] - Department of Forest Sciences, UNESP, Brazil
Oct-2022 [Invited] - Silk Road International Conference, Northwest A&F University, China
Sep-2022 [Invited] - University of Texas Arlington, USA
Aug-2022 [Invited] - Ecological Society of America & Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, Canada
Apr-2022 [Invited] - European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna
Dec-2021 - American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (AGU), USA
Feb-2021 [Invited] - GW4 Water Security Alliance Webinar Series, UK
Feb-2020 - Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina
Dec-2019 - American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (AGU)
Oct-2019 [Invited] - Forschungszentrum (Institute of Bio-and Geosciences: IBG-3), Germany
Sep-2019 [Invited] - Beijing Forestry University, China
Sep-2019 [Invited] - Beijing Normal University, China
Apr-2017 - Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU) Annual Meeting & Canadian Society For Agriculture and Forest Meteorology National Meeting, Canada
Jun-2016 - Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
Sep-2012 - II Congresso Paulista de Extensão Universitária, Brazil