PhD, 2019: Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
MSc, 2018: Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
MSc, 2016: Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
BSc, 2013: Honours Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
2022-Present: Research Associate, University of Saskatchewan, Canmore, Alberta, Canada.
2022-Present: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
2021-2022: James. S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Dynamic and Multiscale Systems, University of Saskatchewan, Canmore, Alberta, Canada.
2019-2020: James. S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Dynamic and Multiscale Systems, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA.
Marysa Laguë is a Research Associate at the University of Saskatchewan at Canmore and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on how changes in the land surface, such as changes in vegetation, can drive changes in the both the local atmosphere and the large-scale climate by modulating fluxes of water and energy between the land and the atmosphere. She uses models of varied complexity to study where the atmosphere is most sensitive to changes in the land, what land surface properties the atmosphere responds most strongly to, and how atmospheric responses to land surface change can feed back on climate both locally and remotely. In addition to her main line of research, Marysa has collaborated with scientists around the world to explore topics including paleo-climate, ecology, and exoplanets.
Kong Wenwen, McKinnon Karen A, Simpson Isla R, Laguë Marysa M, 2022: Understanding responses of summer continental daily temperature variance to perturbations in the land surface evaporative resistance. Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-21-1011.1
Laguë Marysa M., Quetin Gregory R., Boos William R., 2022: Downwind control of oceanic air by land: the land wake and its sensitivity to CO2. Environmental Research Letters, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac9702
Scheff Jacob, Coats Sloan, Laguë Marysa M., 2022: Why do the Global Warming Responses of Land-Surface Models and Climatic Dryness Metrics Disagree?. Earth’s Future, doi: 10.1029/2022EF002814
Laguë Marysa M., Swann Abigail L. S., Boos William R., 2021: Radiative Feedbacks on Land Surface Change and Associated Tropical Precipitation Shifts. Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0883.1
Laguë Marysa M., Pietschnig Marianne, Ragen Sarah, Smith Timothy A., Battisti David S., 2021: Terrestrial Evaporation and Global Climate: Lessons from Northland a Planet with a Hemispheric Continent. Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0452.1
Tromboni Flavia, Liu Jianguo, Ziaco Emanuele, Breshears David D, Thompson Kimberly L, Dodds Walter K, Dahlin Kyla M, LaRue Elizabeth A, Thorp James H, Viña Andrés, Laguë Marysa M, Maasri Alain, Yang Hongbo, Chandra Sudeep, Fei Songlin, 2021: Macrosystems as metacoupled human and natural systems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, doi: 10.1002/fee.2289
Boysen Lena R., Brovkin Victor, Pongratz Julia, Lawrence David M., Lawrence Peter, Vuichard Nicolas, Peylin Philippe, Liddicoat Spencer, Hajima Tomohiro, Zhang Yanwu, Rocher Matthias, Delire Christine, Séférian Roland, Arora Vivek K., Nieradzik Lars, Anthoni Peter, Thiery Wim, Laguë Marysa M., Lawrence Deborah, Lo Min-Hui, 2020: Global climate response to idealized deforestation in CMIP6 models. Biogeosciences, doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-5615-2020
Kim Jinhyuk E., Laguë Marysa M., Pennypacker Sam, Dawson Eliza, Swann Abigail L. S., 2020: Evaporative Resistance is of Equal Importance as Surface Albedo in High‐Latitude Surface Temperatures Due to Cloud Feedbacks. Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2019GL085663
Rushby Andrew J., Shields Aomawa L., Wolf Eric T., Laguë Marysa, Burgasser Adam, 2020: The Effect of Land Albedo on the Climate of Land-dominated Planets in the TRAPPIST-1 System. The Astrophysical Journal, doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abbe04
Zarakas Claire M., Swann Abigail L. S., Laguë Marysa M., Armour Kyle C., Randerson James T., 2020: Plant Physiology Increases the Magnitude and Spread of the Transient Climate Response to CO2 in CMIP6 Earth System Models. Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0078.1
Laguë Marysa M., Bonan Gordon B., Swann Abigail L. S., 2019: Separating the Impact of Individual Land Surface Properties on the Terrestrial Surface Energy Budget in both the Coupled and Uncoupled Land–Atmosphere System. Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0812.1
Swann Abigail L S, Laguë Marysa M, Garcia Elizabeth S, Field Jason P, Breshears David D, Moore David J P, Saleska Scott R, Stark Scott C, Villegas Juan Camilo, Law Darin J, Minor David M, 2018: Continental-scale consequences of tree die-offs in North America: identifying where forest loss matters most. Environmental Research Letters, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaba0f
Laguë Marysa M., Swann Abigail L. S., 2016: Progressive Midlatitude Afforestation: Impacts on Clouds Global Energy Transport and Precipitation. Journal of Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0748.1
Laguë Marysa, Tania Nessy, Heath Joel, Edelstein-Keshet Leah, 2012: The effects of facilitation and competition on group foraging in patches. Journal of Theoretical Biology, doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2012.06.024
The Simple Land Interface Model (SLIM) is an idealized land surface model that can be run coupled to the Community Earth System Model (CESM). Source code and instructions for running SLIM can be found on my github page here.
For pdfs of publications and more, go to my website.
