She is Director of the Okanagan Institute for Biodiversity, Resilience, and Ecosystem Services (BRAES) and leader of the Complex Environmental Systems Laboratory (http://complexity.ok.ubc.ca). Prior to joining UBC, she was an Associate Professor in Environmental Geography and Director of the Complex Systems Laboratory at Université de Montréal (2001-2012). She holds an MSc and PhD in Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering from McGill University, Canada. Dr. Parrott’s area of expertise is ecological complexity. She leads a multidisciplinary research program in modelling and characterising contemporary regional landscapes and ecosystems as complex human-environment systems. Within TRIA-Net, she is leading research into understanding the social-ecological impacts of mountain pine beetle outbreaks at the landscape-scale.