Faculty
MJ Barrett, PhD
mj.barrett@usask.ca
(306) 966-7633
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; Theories of discourse; Qualitative and decolonizing methodologies; Ecopsychology and energetic healing.
Helen Baulch, PhD
helen.baulch@usask.ca
(306) 966-2549
Water quality; Aquatic ecology; Global change; Biogeochemical cycles; Greenhouse gas emissions; Eutrophication
Ken Belcher, PhD
ken.belcher@usask.ca
(306) 966-4019
Ecological economics; Resource and environmental economics; Environmental policy; Climate change; Wetland and wildlife conservation policy
Marie-Ann Bowden,
m.bowden@usask.ca
(306) 966-5879
Environmental law; Public interest advocacy; Water law; Property law
Douglas A. Clark, PhD
d.clark@usask.ca
(306) 966-5405
Decision-making under conditions of rapid social-ecological change; Conservation governance; Wildlife and protected area management
Geoff Cunfer, PhD
geoff.cunfer@usask.ca
(306) 966-7969
Environmental history; Great Plains history; United States history; HGIS (historical geographic information systems); Historical geography; Social metabolism
Markus Hecker, PhD
markus.hecker@usask.ca
(306) 966-5233
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, PhD
andrew.ireson@usask.ca
(306) 966-8020
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, PhD
tim.jardine@usask.ca
(306) 966-4158
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, PhD
paul.jones@usask.ca
(306) 966-5062
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, PhD
naveed.khaliq@usask.ca
(306) 966-2923
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, PhD
vladimir.k@usask.ca
(306) 966-6642
Conservation biology; Population biology and ecology; Community ecology; Restoration ecology; Taxonomy
Yanping Li, PhD
yanping.li@usask.ca
(306) 966-2793
Regional climate modelling; mesoscale dynamics; boundary layer meteorology; air-sea interaction
Karsten Liber, PhD
karsten.liber@usask.ca
(306) 966-7444
Metal bioavailability and toxicity in aquatic ecosystems; Mining impacts on aquatic ecosystems; Water quality assessment; Pesticide ecotoxicology
Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt, PhD
karl-erich.lindenschmidt@usask.ca
(306) 966-6174
Surface water quality modelling; River ice processes; Climate change and river morphology; Flood and flood risk management
Charles Maulé, PhD
charles.maule@usask.ca
(306) 966-4765
Soil hydrology; Evapo-transpiration; Solute transport; Drainage; Semi-arid agricultural systems; Land-soil conservation; Erosion; Reclamation; Soil-water conservation systems
Jeffrey McDonnell, PhD
jeffrey.mcdonnell@usask.ca
(306) 966-8529
Watershed hydrology; Runoff processes and modelling; Isotope hydrology; Hydrological theory
Christy Morrissey, PhD
christy.morrissey@usask.ca
(306) 966-4433
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, PhD
b.noble@usask.ca
(306) 966-1899
Environmental assessment; Environmental planning and management; Implications of resource development; Environmental decision-making
Maureen Reed, PhD
maureen.reed@usask.ca
(306) 966-5630
Environmental governance; Community-based ecosystem management; Sustainability of rural communities; Gender-based analysis; National parks, biosphere reserves, and forestry communities
Toddi Steelman, PhD
toddi.steelman@usask.ca
(306) 966-1499
Environmental and natural resource governance; Public and community decision-making; The interface between science, policy, and decision making; Climate change adaptation; Disaster resilient communities; Risk and crisis communication; Wildfire preparedness
Howard Wheater, PhD
howard.wheater@usask.ca
(306) 966-1990
Hydrological processes and modelling, with applications to the management of flood risk, water resources, water quality, wastes and climate change adaptation
Angela Bedard-Haughn, PhD
Applied pedology; Soils and global change (climate change, land use change); Greenhouse gas emissions; Wetland soils
Scott Bell, PhD
Cognitive science (in relation to geography, psychology and education); Geographic information science
Lalita Bharadwaj, PhD
Community-based participatory research; Partnering with Indigenous communities; First Nations water quality and health; Human and environmental health risk assessment
Ryan Brook, PhD
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
Rachel Engler-Stringer, PhD
Food systems; Community food security; Health promotion
Michael Gertler, PhD
Rural sociology; Community; Environmental sociology; Agriculture; Co-operatives; Sustainable development
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
Suren Kulshreshtha, PhD
Climate change; Greenhouse gas emission mitigation; Drought economic impact assessment; Integrated assessment; Water resources and irrigation; Environmental valuation
Ted Leighton, PhD
Disease ecology; Wild animal diseases; Emerging diseases; Disease surveillance; Zoonotic diseases; Environmental contaminants
Marcia McKenzie, PhD
Place; Environment and sustainability; Social justice; Globalization; Educational Policy and Practice
David Natcher, PhD
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, PhD
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, PhD
Sustainable development; Multinational companies; Cross-sector social partnerships; Emerging markets; NGO's, Corporate governance; Community engagement
Robert Patrick, PhD
Water policy and governance; Source water protection; Watershed planning; Sustainable communities; Aboriginal access to safe drinking water; Urban and regional planning
Greg Poelzer, PhD
Aboriginal policy; Innovation; Northern development; Circumpolar north; Governance and development
Elizabeth Robertson, PhD
Geoarchaelogy; Paleoenvironmental reconstruction; Archaeometry; Artifact conservation; Northern Plains; Boreal forest
Bing Si, PhD
Land reclamation; Water and chemical transport in soils; Geostatistics; Ecohydrology; Soil physics
Vladimir Vujanovic, PhD
Bioproducts; Microbial biotechnology; Mycology
Bill Waiser, PhD
Western and northern Canadian history
Marley Waiser, PhD
Aquatic microbial ecology; prairie wetlands ; streams and saline lakes; nutrient cycling ; pharmaceuticals; herbicides; dissolved organic carbon biogeochemistry
Clinton Westman, PhD
Environmental anthropology; anthropology of religion; research in indigenous communities; social impact assessment; energy
Chelsea Willness, PhD
Business Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility; Organizational Reputation; Recruitment; Stakeholder Attraction (e.g. job applicants, consumers); Impression Management; Community Service Learning
Murray Bentham, PhD
GHG emissions inventory; agroforestry; agri-environmental indicators
Biplob Das, PhD
Water quality; Watershed disturbance effects on aquatic systems; Sustainable land-use planning; Acid deposition effects on aquatic resources; Paleolimnology; Isotope biogeochemistry
John Mark Davies, PhD
Water quality; Aquatic nutrient dynamics; Eutrophication; Cyanotoxins; Saline lakes; Primary productivity; Land-use water quality linkages; Lake and reservoir management
Annette Desmarais, PhD
Food sovereignty; Globalization and agrarian change; Rural social movements and social justice; Development theory and practice; Gender and international development
Steven E. Franklin, PhD
Satellite and aerial remote sensing in terrain analysis; Forest ecology; Wildlife management
Monique Haakensen, PhD
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, PhD
Sustainable forest management; Forest ecosystem modeling; Climate change and forest management; Forest carbon management; Agroforestry; Forest governance models; Community forestry in developing countries
Hans Peterson, PhD
Drinking water and wastewater treatment; surface and groundwater; water treatment evaluations
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, PhD
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
Jeffrey Sereda,
Fish ecology; water quality; aquatic biogeochemistry; impacts of ultraviolet radiation on aquatic ecosystems; aquatic microbial ecology
Judit Smits, PhD
Wildlife health; wildlife bioindicators of ecosystem health; avian toxicology; immunotoxicology; wildlife ecology; arsenic toxicology; veterinary medicine
Garth van der Kamp, PhD
Groundwater-surface interactions; Groundwater resource evaluation; Groundwater flow and solute transport; Hydrology of wetlands
Elaine Wheaton, PhD
Climate change impacts, adaptations, hazards, and vulnerability; Drought; Water resources
