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 | Siciliano, Steven D.
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Academic Degrees
B.Sc. Biochemistry (Concordia), Ph.D. Toxicology (Saskatchewan)Current Teaching
Courses Taught:
Lecture courses:
- EVSC 420: Environmental Fate Analysis
- EVSC 421: Soil Environmental Toxicology
- EVSC 371: Environmental Data Analysis
Graduate courses:
- SLSC 898: Experimental Design in Environmental Sciences
- TOX 820: Advanced Environmental Fate
Current and Recent Research Projects
We have four key initiatives in the Poles devoted to exploring how soil and human health are linked.
- Exploring how soil ecosystems communicate with one another.
- Understanding how the amount of liquid water in frozen affects pollutants and biogeochemistry.
- Working with the citizens of the City of Iqaluit in the Lower Base Region to investigate what sort of and how many pollutants are in the soil around their homes.
- Archiving polar soil samples for future generations.
Note all of our research projects involve traveling across the globe! We are also active in studies involving soil and water quality and greenhouse gases in Saskatchewan and across the prairies.
Publications
Selected Publications:
Siciliano SD, AN Schafer, MAM Forgeron, I Snape. 2008. Hydrocarbon contamination increases the liquid water content of frozen Antarctic soils. Environmental Science and Technology 42:8324-8329.
Ma WK, RE Farrell, SD Siciliano. 2008 Soil formate regulates the fungal nitrous oxide emission pathway Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74:6690-6696.
Powell, SM, SH Ferguson, I Snape, SD Siciliano. 2006. Fertilization stimulates anaerobic fuel degradation of Antarctic soils by denitrifying microorganisms. Environmental Science and Technology. 40:2011-2017
Laird BD, TR Van de Wiele, MC Corriveau, HE Jamieson, MR Parsons, W Verstraete, SD Siciliano. 2007. Gastrointestinal microbes increase arsenic bioaccessibility of ingested mine tailings using the Simulator of the Human Intestinal Microbial Ecosystem (SHIME). Environmental Science and Technology. 41:5542-5547.
Siciliano SD, S Beauchamp, NJ O'Driscoll, J Hill, R Tordon, DRS Lean. 2005. Abiotic production of methylmercury by solar radiation. Environmental Science and Technology. 39:1071-1077.
