| Core Faculty | Areas of Research Interests |
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| MJ Barrett | Human-nature relations; Multiple ways of knowing (epistemology) especially intersections between Intuition and Animism; Aboriginal perspectives and inclusion of Indigenous Knowledges in environmental decision-making; Outdoor and experiential education; Discourse and poststructural theory; Ecofeminist and interspecies ethics; Qualitative and decolonizing methodologies ; Ecopsychology and ecological identity; Traditional and energetic medicine |
| Helen Baulch | Water quality; Aquatic ecology; Global change; Biogeochemical cycles; Greenhouse gas emissions; Eutrophication |
| Ken Belcher | Ecological economics; Resource and environmental economics; Environmental policy; Climate change; Wetland and wildlife conservation policy |
| Marie-Ann Bowden | Environmental law; Public interest advocacy; Water law; Property law |
| Douglas A. Clark | Integrative conservation science; Environmental governance and policy ; Wildlife and protected area management; Wildlife-human conflicts, large carnivore conservation; Co-management, local and traditional ecological knowledge in decision-making |
| Geoff Cunfer | Environmental history; Great Plains history; United States history; HGIS (historical geographic information systems); Historical geography; Social metabolism |
| Markus Hecker | Investigation of biological effects of environmental stressors ; Environmental risk assessment; Development and application of bioanalytical techniques to assess environmental pollution; Aquatic ecology/fish biology |
| Andrew Ireson | Modelling flow and transport in the hydrological cycle; Methods to improve collection, analysis, and interpretation of integrated hydrological data; Hydrological change in northern latitudes; Groundwater resource management; Groundwater quality and sustainable development of natural resources; Integrated hydrological-epidemiological research |
| Tim Jardine | Freshwater food
webs; Applications of
stable isotope analysis in ecology; Tropical floodplain
hydrology and ecology; Contaminant
biomagnification in aquatic ecosystems; Sources and
fate of trace metals; Fish migration; Land-water and
river-ocean connectivity |
| Paul Jones | Analytical and environmental chemistry and toxicology; Fate and effects of trace substances in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems; Aquatic and wildlife toxicology; Ecological risk assessment; Human impacts on northern Canadian ecosystems and subsistence food resources |
| Naveed Khaliq | Stochastic
modeling of hydrometeorological variables; Extreme value
analysis; Impacts of
climate and land use changes on water resource systems; Storm water modeling
and river flow forecasting; Soil and water
management; Applied software development |
| Vladimir Kricsfalusy | Biodiversity conservation; Population biology; Community ecology; Ecological monitoring |
| Karsten Liber | Metal bioavailability and toxicity in aquatic ecosystems; Mining impacts on aquatic ecosystems; Water quality assessment; Pesticide ecotoxicology |
| Charles Maulé | Soil hydrology; Evapo-transpiration; Solute transport; Drainage; Semi-arid agricultural systems; Land-soil conservation; Erosion; Reclamation; Soil-water conservation systems |
| Marcia McKenzie | Place, environment, and sustainability; Social justice, globalization, critical issues; Youth culture and activism; Social and cultural theory; Educational policy and practice; Participatory forms of education and research; Methodologies and politics of research; Media and technology |
| Christy Morrissey | Avian ecology and wildlife ecotoxicology; Effect of multiple stressors (chemical, natural and climatic) on bird behaviour and population stability; Impact of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals from sewage and industrial discharge to river birds; Nutrient and contaminant sources in the context of annual life cycles; Freshwater ecology and pollution |
| Bram Noble | Environmental assessment; Environmental planning and management; Implications of resource development; Environmental decision-making |
| Maureen Reed | Environmental governance; Community-based ecosystem management; Sustainability of rural communities; Gender-based analysis; National parks, biosphere reserves, and forestry communities |
| Bing Si | Land reclamation; Water and chemical transport in soils; Geostatistics; Ecohydrology; Soil physics |
| Howard Wheater | Hydrological processes and modelling, with applications to the management of flood risk, water resources, water quality, wastes and climate change adaptation |
| Associate Faculty | Areas of Research Interests |
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| Angela Bedard-Haughn | Applied pedology; Soils and global change (climate change, land use change); Greenhouse gas emissions; Wetland soils |
| Scott Bell | Cognitive science (in relation to geography, psychology and education); Geographic information science |
| Lalita Bharadwaj | Community-based participatory research; Partnering with Indigenous communities; First Nations water quality and health; Human and environmental health risk assessment |
| Ryan Brook | Aboriginal land management; Wildlife conservation and management; Disease ecology; Protected areas; Linking local and traditional knowledge with science; Human-wildlife conflicts; Youth experiential education; Vegetation-permafrost interactions |
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| Jill Gunn | Strategic environmental assessment; Cumulative effects assessment; Natural resources management; Urban-regional development issues; Environmental management and urban planning theory and frameworks |
| Hayley Hesseln | Environmental and resource economics; Forestry economics |
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| Suren Kulshreshtha | Climate change; Greenhouse gas emission mitigation; Drought economic impact assessment; Integrated assessment; Water resources and irrigation; Environmental valuation |
| Ted Leighton | Disease ecology; Wild animal diseases; Emerging diseases; Disease surveillance; Zoonotic diseases; Environmental contaminants |
| Yen-Han Lin | Metabolic pathway analysis for bioremediation and biodegration processes; integration of environmental biotechnology, gene expression profiling, and applied bioinformatics; Development of novel bioethanol production process |
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| David Natcher | Aboriginal land management; Natural resource management; Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK); Human and political ecology; Applied and environmental anthropology; Social forestry; Common-property theory |
| Mehdi Nemati | Environmental bioengineering with particular emphasis on application of biochemical engineering principles to solve environmental and processing problems in mining and petroleum industries |
| Aloysius Newenham-Kahindi | Sustainable development; Multinational companies; Cross-sector social partnerships; Emerging markets; NGO's, Corporate governance; Community engagement |
| Robert Patrick | Water policy and governance; Source water protection; Watershed planning; Sustainable communities; Aboriginal access to safe drinking water; Urban and regional planning |
| Greg Poelzer | Aboriginal policy; Innovation; Northern development; Circumpolar north; Governance and development |
| Elizabeth Robertson | Geoarchaelogy; Paleoenvironmental reconstruction; Archaeometry; Artifact conservation; Northern Plains; Boreal forest |
| Vladimir Vujanovic | Molecular and functional mycology |
| Ryan Walker | Urban planning and design; Aboriginal peoples; Housing studies |
| Bill Waiser | Western and northern Canadian history |
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| Clinton Westman | Environmental anthropology; anthropology of religion; research in indigenous communities; social impact assessment; energy |
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| Chelsea Willness | Business Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility; Organizational Reputation; Recruitment; Stakeholder Attraction (e.g. job applicants, consumers); Impression Management; Community Service Learning |
| Adjunct Faculty | Areas of Research Interests |
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| Murray Bentham | GHG emissions inventory; agroforestry; agri-environmental indicators |
| Biplob Das | Water quality; Watershed disturbance effects on aquatic systems; Sustainable land-use planning; Acid deposition effects on aquatic resources; Paleolimnology; Isotope biogeochemistry |
| John Mark Davies | Water quality; Aquatic nutrient dynamics; Eutrophication; Cyanotoxins; Saline lakes; Primary productivity; Land-use water quality linkages; Lake and reservoir management |
| Annette Desmarais | Food sovereignty; Globalization and agrarian change; Rural social movements and social justice; Development theory and practice; Gender and international development |
| Steven E. Franklin | Satellite and aerial remote sensing in terrain analysis; Forest ecology; Wildlife management |
| Monique Haakensen | Environmental microbiology; cleantech; biogeochemistry; microbial ecology (including metagenomics); bioremediation; biomining; bioinformatics; integrative research |
| Andrew Harwood | Fish ecology; Effects of resource development and climate change on aquatic ecosystems; Instream flow; Integrated water resource management; Environmental monitoring; Biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems; Fish habitat compensation |
| Michael Hill | Wetlands; Watershed planning; Landscape ecology; Wetland restoration; Waterfowl ecology; Ecological goods and services |
| Mark Johnston | Sustainable forest management; Forest ecosystem modeling; Climate change and forest management; Forest carbon management; Agroforestry; Forest governance models; Community forestry in developing countries |
| Carrie Rickwood | Environmental effects of mining on the aquatic environment, metal fate and toxicity; Assessment of regulatory toxicity tests, improving environmental relevance, sensitivity; Science-policy integration for environmental science |
| Richard Robarts | Aquatic microbial ecology (limnology, microbial production, microbial-contaminant interactions, carbon and phosphorus cycles, global water quality issues, global water quality monitoring and assessment, Africa, Russia, wetlands) |
| Joe Schmutz | Advancing ecosystem sustainability via whole-systems and community-based design; Conserving prairie biodiversity focusing on birds of prey; Examining science and other knowledge systems in a sustainability context; Environmental consulting |
| Judit Smits | Wildlife health; wildlife bioindicators of ecosystem health; avian toxicology; immunotoxicology; wildlife ecology; arsenic toxicology; veterinary medicine |
| Garth van der Kamp | Groundwater-surface interactions; Groundwater resource evaluation; Groundwater flow and solute transport; Hydrology of wetlands |
| Marley Waiser | Aquatic microbial ecology, prairie wetlands, streams and saline lakes, nutrient cycling, pharmaceuticals, herbicides, dissolved organic carbon biogeochemistry |
| Elaine Wheaton | Climate change impacts, adaptations, hazards, and vulnerability; Drought; Water resources |
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