Jack Goldman

Jack is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University. He completed his Ph.D in the Institute of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Toronto.

Jack is a quantitative landscape ecologist who harnesses the power of remote sensing to answer ecological questions at scale. His work examines how environmental heterogeneity shapes ecosystem structure, function, and responses to disturbance in a changing climate. By quantifying spatial and temporal variability across landscapes, he seeks to understand why wildfires’ impacts vary, and how these patterns may shift under ongoing global change. He is also committed to developing open-source, low-cost, and reproducible methods for monitoring disturbance and environmental change, and for assessing ecosystem vulnerability to future disturbance.

Jack’s postdoctoral research with Dr. Millard focuses on modelling wildfire spread selectivity and forecasting fire spread into peatlands, carbon-rich ecosystems of growing concern as fire regimes change. Additionally, he is working on methodological approaches to upscale lidar-derived aboveground biomass to satellite imagery in peatlands. He also applies these approaches to track broader patterns of global environmental change.

1. Goldman JA, Fortin MJ, James PMA. 2026. Within and among year moisture availability influences wildfire burn severity in the boreal forest. Fire Ecology 22, 146
2. Goldman JA, Fortin MJ, James PMA. 2025. Snow dynamics and forest structure interact to increase wildfire burn severity in the boreal forest. Forest Ecology and Management 598, 123180
3. Messaoud Y, Reid A, Tchebakova NM, Goldman, JA, & Hofgaard A. 2022 The historical complexity of tree height growth dynamic associated with climate change in western north america. Forests, 13(5): 738.
4. Crane AL, Bairos-Novak KR, Goldman JA, Brown GE. 2022. Chemical disturbance cues in aquatic systems: a review and prospectus. Ecological Monographs, 92(1): e01487
5. Goldman JA, Crane AL, Feyten LEA, Collins E, Brown GE.2022 Disturbance cue communication is shaped by emitter diet and receiver background risk in Trinidadian guppies. Current Zoology, 68(4): 433–440.
6. Brown GE, Demers EM, Goldman JA, Singh A, Chivers DP, Ferrari MCO. 2020 Unpredictable risk enhances induced neophobia in northern red-bellied dace. Animal Behaviour, 168: 121-127
7. Goldman JA, Desormeaux IS, Brown GE. 2020. Disturbance cues function as sources of risk assessment information under natural conditions. Freshwater Biology, 65(5): 981-986.
8. Goldman JA, Feyten LEA, Ramnarine IW, Brown GE. 2020. Sender and receiver experience with risk alters the response to disturbance cues by Trinidadian guppies. Current Zoology, 66(3): 255-261.
9. Goldman JA, Singh A, Demers EM, Feyten LEA, Brown GE. 2019.  Does donor group size matter? The response of Trinidadian guppies and Convict cichlids to disturbance cues from conspecific and heterospecific donors. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 97(4): 319-325.