Silja Hund, Hydrologist

Dr. Silja Hund is a hydrologist with focus on climate change impacts on extreme hydrological events and community adaptation to floods and droughts. Silja has been working as a hydrologist and research analyst at Ebbwater Consulting Inc. since its inception and has developed a deep expertise in risk analysis, large dataset processing and GIS. Over her time at Ebbwater, she has been part of several provincial/federal risk projects (e.g., a review of risk assessment methods, contribution to forth-coming guidelines). With respect to applied project work, she has developed multiple tools for flood risk assessment, and also recently led the development of a probabilistic risk assessment for coastal flood hazards. She enjoys technical writing and communication for reports and articles, has presented her work at national and international conferences, and has published in international peer-reviewed journals.

Silja completed her Ph.D. in Geological Sciences at The University of British Columbia. For her research, she did extensive field work working with local communities, collected streamflow data, and integrated these data into a hydrological model. She applied a range of downscaled climate change scenarios to the model, using a suite of automated pre- and post-processing R codes that she developed. She used the results to develop novel drought adaptation tools for the region. Silja previously graduated with a Master of Science in Geoecology with a focus on hydrology and hydrologic modelling from the University of Potsdam, Germany.