School of Environment and Sustainability

All Faculty


Core Faculty

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Helen Baulch PhD
Assistant Director Academic (Internal) and Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

Member, College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada
Centennial Enhancement Chair in Aquatic Ecosystem Biogeochemistry
Member, Global Institute for Water Security


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Markus Brinkmann PhD
Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

Centennial Enhancement Chair in Mechanistic Environmental Toxicology
Director, Toxicology Centre
Faculty Member, Global Water Futures (GWF) program
Member, Global Institute for Water Security (GIWS)


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Douglas A. Clark PhD
Executive Director (Acting) and Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability


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Grant Ferguson PhD
Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

Centennial Enhancement Chair in Groundwater-Energy-Food Nexus
Joint Appointment with Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering


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Markus Hecker PhD
Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Predictive Toxicology and Chemical Safety
Member, Toxicology Centre
Member, College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada


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Andrew Ireson PhD
Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

Member, Global Institute for Water Security


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Tim Jardine PhD
Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

Member, Toxicology Centre


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Varuni Jayasooriya PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability


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Paul Jones PhD
Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

Member, Toxicology Centre


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Vladimir Kricsfalusy PhD
Associate Professor AP, School of Environment and Sustainability

Affiliate, Prairie Centre for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage, St. Thomas More College


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Karsten Liber PhD
Executive Director, School of Environment and Sustainability

University of Saskatchewan Distinguished Professor
On Leave in 2024-25


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Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt PhD
Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

Director, Master of Water Security Program
Member, Global Institute for Water Security


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Jeffrey J. McDonnell PhD, FRSC
Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

University of Saskatchewan Distinguished Professor
Associate Director, Global Institute for Water Security
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada


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Greg Poelzer PhD
Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

Co-Lead of the Energy and Mineral Resources for a Sustainable Future Signature Area
** I am currently not accepting new graduate students. **


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Saman Razavi PhD
Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

Member, Global Institute for Water Security


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Maureen Reed PhD
Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

UNESCO Co-Chair in Biocultural Diversity, Sustainability, Reconciliation and Renewal
University of Saskatchewan Distinguished Professor


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James Robson PhD
Assistant Director Academic (External) and Associate Professor in Human Dimensions of Sustainability, School of Environment and Sustainability

Graduate Chair, School of Environment and Sustainability
UNESCO Co-Chair in Biocultural Diversity, Sustainability, Reconciliation and Renewal


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Graham Strickert PhD
Associate Professor AP, School of Environment and Sustainability

Member, Global Institute for Water Security


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Colin Whitfield PhD
Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

Director, MSs Regenerative Sustainability Program
Member, Global Institute of Water Security


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Oscar Zapata PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

Centennial Chair in Community Energy Development


Associate Faculty

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Angela Bedard-Haughn
Dean and Professor, College of Agriculture and Bioresources

Research keywords: Applied pedology; soils and global change; wetland soils


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Ken Belcher
Professor, College of Agriculture and Bioresources

Research keywords: Ecological economics: resource and environmental economics; environmental policy; wetland and wildlife conservation policy


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Martin Boucher PhD, MA, BSc
Faculty Lecturer Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy

Research keywords: cities and climate change; sustainability transitions; energy sustainability, including Northern energy transitions; public policy and decentralized energy; energy justice


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Ajay Dalai
Distinguished Professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioenergy and Environmental Friendly Chemical Processes, College of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Research keywords: Chemical reaction design; Heterogeneous catalysis; Biomass and bioenergy; Petroleum processing; Sustainable energy


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Rachel Engler-Stringer
Associate Professor, Community Health and Epidemiology, College of Medicine

Research keywords: Food systems; community food security; health promotion


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Colin Laroque PhD, PAg
Professor, Soil Science, College of Agriculture and Bioresources

Research Keywords: Past and future climates in Canada; Dendrology and dendrochronology; Dendroarchaeology; Dendrochemical investigations


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Kerry McPhedran
Centennial Enhancement Chair & Associate Professor, Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering

Research keywords: Indigenous water and environmental-related projects; municipal and environmental engineering, including municipal wastewater; partitioning to organic matter; recreational water quality; and stormwater runoff


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Christy Morrissey PhD
Professor, Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences

Research Keywords: Avian and aquatic ecotoxicology; Pesticides; Bird migration; Conservation; Agroecosystems


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Benjamin Ralston BA, JD, LLM
Assistant Professor, College of Law

Research keywords: Aboriginal rights; Administrative law; Canadian constitutional law; Environmental and natural resource law; Human rights law


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Jeremy Rayner
Professor, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy

Research keywords: Policy analysis, resource policy, energy policy, multi-level governance, public engagement


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Hamed Samarghandi PhD
Edwards Enhancement Chair in Business, Associate Professor of Management Science, Edwards School of Business

Research keywords: supply chain management; healthcare optimization; transportation management


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Jafar Soltan
Professor, College of Engineering

Research keywords: Environmental engineering; environmental catalysis; treatment of polluted air; treatment of emerging pollutants in water; wastewater treatment


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Susann Tegtmeier Dr. rer.nat
Assistant Professor, Physics & Engineering Physics

Research Keywords: Chemistry-climate interactions; Tropospheric pollution; Impact of oceanic trace gases on the atmosphere; Stratospheric dynamics


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Ryan Walker PhD, RPP, MCIP
Professor, Geography and Planning | Associate Dean, College of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Research keywords: City planning; urban geography; urban design; Indigenous urbanism; public space


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Andrew Watson
Assistant Professor, Department of History

Assistant Professor, History, College of Arts and Science


Adjunct Faculty

Mohammad Khaled Akhtar PhD
River Forecast Engineer, Government of Alberta


Solomon Amuno PhD
Senior Planner, Nunavut Planning Commission


Kai Bester PhD
Professor, Department of Environmental Science - Environmental chemistry & toxicology, Aarhus University


John Boakye-Danquah PhD
Social Research Planner, City of Calgary


Lauren Bortolotti PhD
Research Scientist, Institute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research, Ducks Unlimited Canada


Anders Branth Pedersen PhD
Senior Researcher Aarhus University


Pedro Carvalho PhD
Associate Professor Aarhus University


Natasha Caverley PhD
President, Turtle Island Consulting Services, Inc.


Kwok Pan (Sun) Chun PhD
Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University


Irena Creed PhD, FRSC
Professor and Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation, University of Toronto Scarborough


John-Mark Davies PhD
Water Quality Scientist, Saskatchewan Water Security Agency


Jean-Michel DeVink PhD
Principal Consultant, Aries Environmental Consulting


Felicitas Egunyu PhD
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo


Eva Enders PhD
Research Scientist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada


Patrik Fauser
Senior Researcher Aarhus University


Martyn Futter PhD
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences


Martin Hansen PhD
Associate Professor Aarhus University


Allison Henderson PhD
Wildlife Ecologist, Government of Saskatchewan


Scott Higgins PhD
Research Scientist, International Institute for Sustainable Development


Carolyn Hoessler PhD, CE
Senior Specialist and Founder, Higher Education and Beyond


Wouter Knoben PhD
Senior Research Associate, University of Calgary


Geoff Koehler PhD
Stable Isotope Chemist, Environment and Climate Change Canada


Gabriela Lichtenstein PhD
Researcher, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina


Philip A. Loring PhD
Arrell Chair and Associate Professor, University of Guelph


Bin Luo PhD
Senior Hydrologic Engineer, Manitoba Infrastructure


Jason MacLean PhD
Adjunct Professor


Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle PhD
Conservation Planning Biologist, Wildlife Conservation Society Canada


Merle Massie PhD
Historian, Writer, Editor and Farmer


Kristin Painter PhD
Environmental Effects Monitoring Specialist, Environment and Climate Change Canada


Prabin Rokaya PhD
Transboundary Water Quantity Specialist, Alberta Environment and Parks


Hans Sanderson PhD
Senior Scientist Aarhus University


Peter Borgen Sorensen PhD
Senior Researcher Aarhus University


Jason Venkiteswaran PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University


Francisco Villamarín PhD
Lecturer Researcher, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Ecuador


Katrin Vorkamp PhD
Professor Aarhus University


Howard Wheater PhD
Professor and Distinguished Researcher, College of Engineering, University of Saskatchewan; Founding Director of the Global Institute for Water Security; Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate in Water Security; and Distinguished Research Fellow and Emeritus Professor in Hydrology Imperial College London


Emeritus Faculty

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Jay Famiglietti PhD
Professor Emeritus, School of Environment and Sustainability

Canada 150 Research Chair Laureate in Hydrology and Remote Sensing
Former Executive Director, Global Institute for Water Security
Senior Water Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Professor, Arizona State University


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David Schneider MSc
Professor Emeritus, School of Environment and Sustainability