Core Faculty
MJ Barrett PhD Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Deepening animal-human understanding and relationships through intuitive interspecies communication (IIC), Understanding and application of multi-species research methods, Engaging individuals in transformative sustainability education, Bridging knowledges through increased respect for Indigenous and other ways of knowing
Helen Baulch PhD Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Water quality, Eutrophication and algal blooms, Winter limnology, Biogeochemical cycling, Greenhouse gas emissions and climate change
Lori Bradford PhD Assistant Professor, Ron and Jane Graham School of Professional Development
Research Area(s): Indigenous water knowledge, Water policy, Water empathy, Social determinants of health, Engaged scholarship
Markus Brinkmann PhD Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Exposure and risk assessment modelling, Toxicokinetic modelling, Aquatic ecotoxicology, Mechanistic toxicology, Environmental chemistry
Douglas A. Clark PhD Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Indigenous co-management of resources and ecosystems, Polar bear-human conflicts, Wildlife and protected area management under conditions of rapid social-ecological change, Environmental governance and policy processes
Irena Creed PhD, FRSC Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Ecosystem science, Ecosystem services, Global change
Jay Famiglietti PhD Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Remote sensing of terrestrial and global hydrology, Climate change impacts on hydrology and water resources, Regional and global groundwater depletion, Large-scale hydrological modeling, Science communication and water diplomacy
Grant Ferguson PhD Associate Professor, College of Engineering, Department of Civil and Geological Engineering
Research Area(s): Groundwater and energy, Deep groundwater systems, Hydrogeochemistry, Groundwater sustainability
Markus Hecker PhD Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Investigation of biological effects of environmental stressors, Environmental risk assessment, Aquatic ecology/fish biology, Development and application of bioanalytical techniques to assess environmental pollution
Andrew Ireson PhD Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Subsurface hydrology, Climate change and water security, Land-water management and environmental change, Sustainable development of natural resources
Tim Jardine PhD Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): River deltas as complex social-ecological systems, Freshwater food webs and contaminant biomagnification in aquatic ecosystems, Land-water and river-ocean connectivity, Tropical floodplain hydrology and ecology, Applications of stable isotope analysis in ecology
Paul Jones PhD Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): 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
Andrea Kraj PhD Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Intelligent energy systems for improved management of multiple renewable energy systems, Computer modeling and simulation of advanced energy systems, Energy policy, Community energy development, Remote power systems
Vladimir Kricsfalusy PhD Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Conservation biology, Plant population ecology, Vegetation science, Education for sustainable development
Colin Laroque PhD, PAg Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Past and future climates in Canada, Dendrology and dendrochronology, Dendroarchaeology, Dendrochemical investigations
Yanping Li PhD Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Regional climate modelling, Mesoscale dynamics, Boundary layer meteorology, Air-sea interaction
Karsten Liber PhD Executive Director (Interim), School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Mining impacts and metal bioavailability and toxicity in aquatic ecosystems, Sediment contamination and associated impacts on benthic invertebrate communities, Water quality assessment and derivation of water and sediment quality guidelines, Use of autonomous water quality sensor systems for delineating effluent exposure and ecological risk in industrially impacted freshwater systems, Pesticide ecotoxicology, particularly pesticide impact on aquatic life
Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt PhD Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Surface water quality modelling, River ice processes, Climate change and river morphology, Flood and flood risk management
Jeffrey J. McDonnell PhD, FRSC Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Hillslope hydrology, Runoff processes and modelling, Isotope hydrology, Hydrological theory
Christy Morrissey PhD Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
- christy.morrissey@usask.ca
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- CSRB 120.6 | Christy Morrissey is not currently accepting graduate students.
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Research Area(s): Avian and aquatic ecotoxicology, Pesticides, Bird migration, Conservation, Agroecosystems
Greg Poelzer PhD Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Renewable energy in Northern, Remote and Indigenous communities, Comparative energy policy and energy transitions, Social and economic value of community energy development, Indigenous-state relations, Economic reconciliation; negotiations, consultations, and social licence to operate
Saman Razavi PhD Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Hydrologic models development and calibration, Environmental and water resources systems planning and management, Single- and multi-objective optimization, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty quantification; surrogate modelling, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, Climate change and impacts on hydrology and water resources, Reconstruction of paleo-hydrology and its implications for climate change analysis
Maureen Reed PhD Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Governance for environmental and social sustainability, Biocultural diversity and reconciliation, Social dimensions of climate hazards and adaptation, Gender, diversity and inclusion in environmental sectors, Forestry and biosphere reserves
James Robson PhD Assistant Professor in Human Dimensions of Sustainability, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Environmental governance through collective action, Tracking and explaining change in commons regimes, The migration-environment-development nexus, Local approaches to biodiversity conservation
David Schneider MSc Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Mathematical, statistical and computational modelling of complex biological and biophysical systems; Biological sequence analysis, Systems biology and functional genomics; Comparative genomics of bacteria, Genotype-phenotype relations in crop plants, Structure-function relations in plant roots, Dynamics of large-scale outbreaks of infectious diseases
Graham Strickert PhD Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Human dimensions of water security
Colin Whitfield PhD Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Catchment hydrochemistry, Ecosystem biogeochemistry; Biogeochemical modelling, Climate change; Biogenic greenhouse gas emissions, Acidification; Mineral weathering, Response to stressors
Oscar Zapata PhD Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Research Area(s): Socio-economic impacts of energy development, Relationships between individual behavior and economic and social outcomes, Individual economic behavior in the context of climate change