Associate Faculty
Angela Bedard-Haughn
Research Area(s): Applied pedology; soils and global change (climate change, land use change); greenhouse gas emissions; wetland soils
Ken Belcher Professor, College of Agriculture and Bioresources
Research keywords: Ecological economics: resource and environmental economics; environmental policy; wetland and wildlife conservation policy
Lalita Bharadwaj Professor, School of Public Health
Research keywords: Community-based participatory research; partnering with Indigenous communities; First Nations water quality and health; human and environmental health risk assessment
Jill Blakely Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, College of Arts and Science
Research keywords: Strategic environmental assessment; cumulative effects assessment; natural resources management; urban-regional development issues; environmental management and urban planning theory and frameworks
Ryan Brook Associate Professor, College of Agriculture and Bioresources
Research keywords: 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
Ajay Dalai Professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioenergy and Environmental Friendly Chemical Processes, College of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Rachel Engler-Stringer Associate Professor, Community Health and Epidemiology, College of Medicine
Research keywords: Food systems; community food security; health promotion
Grant Ferguson Associate Professor, College of Engineering, Department of Civil and Geological Engineering
Research Keywords: Climate change and water security, Groundwater and hydrogeology, Sustainable development of natural resources
Jim Germida Professor and Vice-Provost Faculty Relations
Research keywords: plant-microbe interactions; soil microbiology
Michael Gertler Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Arts and Science
Research keywords: Rural sociology; community; environmental sociology; agriculture; co-operatives; sustainable development
Suren Kulshreshtha Professor, College of Agriculture and Bioresources
Research keywords: Climate change; greenhouse gas emission mitigation; drought economic impact assessment; integrated assessment; water resources and irrigation; environmental valuation
Marcia McKenzie Professor and Director, Sustainability Education Research Institute, College of Education
Research keywords: Climate change and sustainability in relation to education policy and practice.
David Natcher Professor and Director, Indigenous Land Management Institute, College of Agriculture and Bioresources
Research keywords: Aboriginal land management; natural resource management; traditional ecological knowledge (TEK); human and political ecology; applied and environmental anthropology; social forestry; common-property theory
Catherine Niu Associate Professor, College of Engineering
Research keywords: Adsorption, biosorption, water/wastewater treatment, adsorption kinetics and equilibrium, adsorption modelling.
Bram Noble Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, College of Arts and Science
Research keywords: Environmental assessment; environmental planning and management; mineral and energy resource development; environmental policy and decision-making; cumulative effects assessment
Robert Patrick
Research keywords: Water policy and governance; source water protection; watershed planning; sustainable communities; Aboriginal access to safe drinking water; urban and regional planning
Derek Peak Professor, College of Agriculture and Bioresources
Research keywords: Environmental soil chemistry
Jeremy Rayner Professor and Director, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy
Research keywords: Policy analysis, resource policy, energy policy, multi-level governance, public engagement
Jafar Soltan Professor, College of Engineering
Research keywords: Environmental engineering; environmental catalysis; treatment of polluted air; treatment of emerging pollutants in water; wastewater treatment
Ryan Walker Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, College of Arts and Science
Research keywords: Urban planning; urban design; urban geography; comparative urban Indigenous studies in Canada, New Zealand and Australia; housing studies; multi-level governance and urban policy; First Nation community planning; citizenship theory; housing for people with serious mental illness
Clinton Westman Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Science
Research keywords: Environmental anthropology; anthropology of religion; research in indigenous communities; social impact assessment; energy