Rate My Professor Magali Nehemy

Magali Nehemy is an ecohydrologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of British Columbia Okanagan campus, within the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science. She was appointed to this position in 2025. Nehemy earned her MSc and PhD from the University of Saskatchewan, completing the doctorate in 2021. She subsequently held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Global Institute for Water Security in 2022 before serving as Assistant Professor at Trent University from 2022 to 2025.

Her research focuses on ecohydrology, forest hydrology, hydrological connectivity, isotope hydrology, transpiration phenology, and community-directed adaptation research. Nehemy is the principal investigator of the Hillslope Ecohydrology Research (H.E.R.) Lab. 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. Among her honors are the NSERC Discovery Grant (2023–2028), Catalyst Alliance Grant (2024–2025), Best Doctoral Thesis Award in Water Security Research from the Global Institute for Water Security, and the Horton Research Grant from the American Geophysical Union. Nehemy’s work examines vegetation-water interactions across ecosystems, including studies in boreal and Amazonian forests, advancing methods in plant water isotope analysis and integrating field measurements, modeling, and Indigenous knowledge for climate adaptation.