All Faculty
Core Faculty
MJ Barrett PhD Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Associate Member, Educational Foundations, College of Education
Helen Baulch PhD Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Centennial Enhancement Chair in Aquatic Ecosystem
Biogeochemistry
Member, Global Institute for Water Security
Markus Brinkmann PhD Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Faculty Member, Global Water Futures (GWF) program
Member, Global Institute for Water Security (GIWS)
Member, Toxicology Centre
Douglas A. Clark PhD Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Centennial Chair in Human Dimensions of Environment and Sustainability
Jay Famiglietti PhD Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Canada 150 Research Chair in Hydrology and Remote Sensing, University of Saskatchewan
Executive Director, Global Institute for Water Security
Senior Water Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Markus Hecker PhD Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Canada Research Chair in Predictive Aquatic Ecotoxicology
Member, Toxicology Centre
Member, College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada
Andrew Ireson PhD Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Associate Professor, Civil and Geological Engineering, College of Engineering
Member, Global Institute for Water Security
Master of Water Security Program Coordinator
Tim Jardine PhD Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Member, Toxicology Centre
Paul Jones PhD Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Member, Toxicology Centre
Vladimir Kricsfalusy PhD Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Program Director, Master of Sustainable Environmental Management
Colin Laroque PhD, PAg Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Professor, Soil Science, College of Agriculture and Bioresources
Karsten Liber PhD Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
University of Saskatchewan Distinguished Professor
Director, Toxicology Centre
Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt PhD Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Member, Global Institute for Water Security
Jeffrey J. McDonnell PhD, FRSC Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Associate Director, Global Institute for Water Security
Christy Morrissey PhD Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Associate Professor, Biology, College of Arts and Science
Member, Toxicology Centre
Saman Razavi PhD Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Member, Global Institute for Water Security
Maureen Reed PhD Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Assistant Director, Academic, School of Environment and Sustainability
University of Saskatchewan Distinguished Researcher
James Robson PhD Assistant Professor in Human Dimensions of Sustainability, School of Environment and Sustainability
David Schneider MSc Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Graduate Chair, School of Environment and Sustainability
Graham Strickert PhD Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Member, Global Institute for Water Security
Andrew Watson PhD Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Assistant Professor, History, College of Arts and Science
Colin Whitfield PhD Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
Member, Global Institute of Water Security
Associate Faculty
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: Place, environment and sustainability; social justice; globalization; educational policy and practice; youth culture and activism; social and cultural theory; participatory forms of education and research
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
Elizabeth Schwartz Assistant Professor, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy
Research keywords: Local government and governance, Climate change and environmental policy, Energy policy, Qualitative research methodology
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
Adjunct Faculty
Solomon Amuno PhD Technical Advisor, Nunavut Impact Review Board
Research keywords: Contaminant biomonitoring in arctic ecosystems; environmental quality assessment in polar environments; natural resource development in the Canadian high arctic; aboriginal communities and environmental impact assessment in Nunavut, Northwest Territories and Greenland.
Glenn Benoy PhD Senior Water Quality and Ecosystem Advisor, International Joint Commission (Canadian Section)
Research keywords: Boundary waters; environmental science; integrated water resources management; limnology; science diplomacy; transboundary watersheds; water quality modelling
Murray Bentham PhD Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Research keywords: GHG emissions inventory; agroforestry; agri-environmental indicators
Alexander Bond PhD Senior Curator in Charge, Bird Group, Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum (United Kingdom)
Sarah Breen PhD Senior Policy Analyst, Government of British Columbia
Research Keywords: rural development, regional development, water governance, water management, agricultural drainage
Steve Chapra PhD Professor, Tufts University
Research keywords: Water quality modelling; numerical methods; advanced computer applications in environmental engineering
Kwok Pan (Sun) Chun PhD Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University
Research keywords: Earth systems; hydrology and climatology; numerical modelling; statistical methods and stochastic processes; environmental hazards and disasters; global changes
John Mark Davies PhD Water Quality Scientist, Saskatchewan Water Security Agency
Resesarch keywords: Water quality; aquatic nutrient dynamics; eutrophication; cyanotoxins; saline lakes; primary productivity; land-use water quality linkages; lake and reservoir management
Jean-Michel DeVink PhD Senior Environmental Scientist, Dillon Consulting Ltd.
Research keywords: wildlife: ecology: toxicology; environmental assessment; environmental effects monitoring; landscape ecology; land-use change
Andrew Harwood PhD Fisheries Scientist and Project Manager, Ecofish Research
Research keywords: 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
Allison Henderson PhD Wildlife Ecologist, Government of Saskatchewan
Research Keywords: Grassland ecology; prairie conservation; human dimensions of wildlife management; conservation planning
Scott Higgins PhD Research Scientist, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Research Keywords: Freshwater Ecology; limnology; algal Ecology; climate change effects; eutrophication; ecosystem ecology
Michael Hill PhD Wetland and Wildlife Ecologist, SNC-Lavalin
Research keywords: Wetlands; watershed planning; landscape ecology; wetland restoration; waterfowl ecology; ecological goods and services
Keith Hobson PhD Research Scientist, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Research keywords: Avian conservation and ecology; animal migration; foodweb dynamics; nutrient flux; stable isotopes (methods, development and applications)
Mark Johnston PhD Saskatchewan Research Council
Research keywords: Sustainable forest management; forest ecosystem modeling; climate change and forest management; forest carbon management; agroforestry; forest governance models; community forestry in developing countries
Naveed Khaliq PhD National Research Council of Canada
Research keywords: Climate modelling; drought research
Kenji Kitamura PhD Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan
Research keywords: Integrated local environmental knowledge; protected areas; common property regime; participatory learning and action
Gun Lidestav PhD Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Research keywords: Family forestry and cooperatives; community forestry and forest commons; gender analysis; rural development
Bin Luo PhD Senior Hydrologic Engineer, Manitoba Infrastructure
Research Keywords: Small watershed hydrology; hydrological statistics; agricultural drainage; and river and lake ice.
Murray MacKay PhD Research Scientist, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Research keywords: Climate adaptation; climate change and processes; climate modelling; Great Lakes; water quantity
Merle Massie PhD Historian, Writer, Editor and Farmer
Research keywords: Local, rural and environmental history
Rory McIntosh PhD Provincial Forest Entomologist and Pathologist, Government of Saskatchewan
Research keywords: Chemical and behavioural forest insect ecology; forest pest management; Mountain pine beetle ecology and management; Pest management; Spruce budworm ecology and management; strategic planning; policy development; urban forest pest management
Tetsu Sato PhD Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Research keywords: Local environmental studies; conservation ecology
Jeffrey Sereda PhD Senior Habitat and Population Ecologist, Saskatchewan Water Security Agency
Research keywords: Fish ecology; water quality; aquatic biogeochemistry; impacts of ultraviolet radiation on aquatic ecosystems; aquatic microbial ecology
George Sherk PhD Consultant
Research keywords: Law; environmental and natural resources law and policy; environmental management and environmental health
Monique Simair PhD President and Principal Scientist, Contango Strategies
Research keywords: Environmental microbiology; cleantech; biogeochemistry; microbial ecology (including metagenomics); bioremediation; biomining; bioinformatics; integrative research
Garth van der Kamp PhD Research Scientist, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Research keywords: Groundwater-surface interactions; groundwater resource evaluation; groundwater flow and solute transport; hydrology of wetlands
Elaine Wheaton Senior Research Scientist, Saskatchewan Research Council
Research keywords: Climate change impacts, adaptations, hazards, and vulnerability; drought; water resources