All Faculty
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
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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
Associate Faculty
Angela Bedard-Haughn Professor, College of Agriculture and Bioresources
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
Ajay Dalai Distinguished 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
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
** Currently on leave and not taking new students. **
Dena McMartin Associate Provost, Institutional Planning and Assessment, and Professor, Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering
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
Andrew Watson Assistant Professor, Department of History
Research Area(s): Environmental history, Energy history, Canadian history, Sustainability, Agroecosystems and commodities
Adjunct Faculty
Mohammad Khaled Akhtar PhD River Forecast Engineer, Government of Alberta
Research Area(s): Hydrological and hydraulic modelling, Flood and drought forecasting, Serious gaming, Climate change impacts on water resources, System dynamics, and Integrated Assessment Modelling
Solomon Amuno PhD Technical Advisor, Nunavut Impact Review Board
Research Area(s): 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
Sheri Andrews-Key PhD Chief Scientist & Founder, Innovative Climate Strategies
Research Area(s): Climate change, Vulnerability, Adaptation, Capacity building, Sustainability
Elvis Asong PhD Founder and CEO, Climalogik
Research Area(s): Climate change adaptation and mitigation, Regional climate downscaling and scenarios development, Climate change risks and vulnerability assessment, Hydrological modelling and water resources management in a changing climate, Incorporating climate change adaptation into engineering and environmental design
Lauren Bortolotti PhD Research Scientist, Institute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research, Ducks Unlimited Canada
Research Area(s): Wetland ecology and biogeochemistry, Wetland restoration, Ecosystem services, Conservation biology
Sarah Breen PhD Regional Innovation Chair in Rural Economic Development, Selkirk College
Research Area(s): Water management, Governance and policy, Socio-ecological systems, Natural resource management, Rural economic development
Kwok Pan (Sun) Chun PhD Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University
Research Area(s): 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
Research Area(s): Lake and reservoir management, Aquatic nutrient dynamics, Aquatic ecosystem productivity, Saline lakes
Jean-Michel DeVink PhD Senior Environmental Scientist, Dillon Consulting Ltd.
Research Area(s): Wildlife ecology, Toxicology, Environmental assessment and environmental effects monitoring, Landscape ecology, Land-use change
Felicitas Egunyu PhD Land and Resource Specialist, BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development
Research Area(s): Environmental governance, Community/public participation in natural resource management, Evidence-based policy research, Social learning, Land use and protected area planning
Eva Enders PhD Research Scientist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Research Area(s): Fish and habitat conservation in relation to natural and anthropogenic changes of flow and climate regimes
Martyn Futter PhD Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Research Area(s): Water quality modelling, Catchment hydrology, Eutrophication, Microplastics, European environmental policy
Valencia Gaspard PhD Policy Advisor, Natural Resources Canada
Research Area(s): Rural planning and development, Governance and policy, Rural resource management
Allison Henderson PhD Wildlife Ecologist, Government of Saskatchewan
Research Area(s): Grassland ecology, Prairie conservation, Human dimensions of wildlife management, Conservation planning
Scott Higgins PhD Research Scientist, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Research Area(s): Freshwater Ecology, Limnology and algal ecology, Climate change effects, Eutrophication, Ecosystem ecology
Carolyn Hoessler PhD, CE Senior Specialist and Founder, Higher Education and Beyond
Research Area(s): Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research design and collaborative team development, Statistical, qualitative and mixed methods methodology, Deepening human nature connection, Outcome-based evaluation
Naveed Khaliq PhD National Research Council of Canada
Research Area(s): Climate modelling, Drought research
Geoff Koehler PhD Stable Isotope Chemist, Environment and Climate Change Canada
Research Area(s): Stable isotope applications to ecology and forensics, Petrogenesis, tracing, and origins of basinal fluids, Stable isotope hydrology and aqueous geochemisty, Analytical geochemistry, Stable isotope tracing of environmental contaminants
Gabriela Lichtenstein PhD Researcher, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina
Research Area(s): Socio-economic and political dimensions of sustainable use of wildlife and conservation, Human wildlife conflict (guanaco-sheep conflict in Patagonia), Sustainable use of wild South American Camelids (guanacos and vicuñas), and collective action, Bridging academia with policy making on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity
Gun Lidestav PhD Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Research Area(s): Family forestry and cooperatives, Community forestry and forest commons, Gender analysis, Rural development
Philip A. Loring PhD Arrell Chair and Associate Professor, University of Guelph
Research Area(s): Food systems and security, Fisheries, Local food movements, Environmental justice, Climatic and environmental change
Bin Luo PhD Senior Hydrologic Engineer, Manitoba Infrastructure
Research Area(s): Small watershed hydrology, Hydrological statistics, Agricultural drainage, River and lake ice
Jason MacLean PhD Assistant Professor, University of New Brunswick
Research Area(s): Environmental law, Natural resources law, Climate change and energy policy, Sustainability pathways and co-benefits
Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle PhD Conservation Planning Biologist, Wildlife Conservation Society Canada
Research Area(s): Impacts and interactions of climate change and land-use change on biodiversity, Translating the implications of global change into conservation planning, Bridging traditional knowledge and scientific knowledge systems together for achieving conservation goals, Investigating cumulative effects of multiple stressors on various ecological systems and biodiversity
Merle Massie PhD Historian, Writer, Editor and Farmer
Research Area(s): Local, rural and environmental history
Rory McIntosh PhD Provincial Forest Entomologist and Pathologist, Government of Saskatchewan
Research Area(s): Chemical and behavioural forest insect ecology, Forest pest management, Ecology and management of mountain pine beetle spruce budworm, Strategic planning and policy development, Urban forest pest management
David Muir PhD Staff Scientist, Industry Development Education Application Student (IDEAS) beamline, Canadian Light Source
Rebecca North PhD Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri
Research Area(s): aquatic biogeochemistry, climate change, winter limnology
Jeremy Pittman PhD Assistant Professor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo
Research Area(s): Sustaining human communities and ecosystems, Understanding how the policies guiding human-environment interactions shape human well-being and ecosystem health
Jeffrey Sereda PhD Senior Habitat and Population Ecologist, Saskatchewan Water Security Agency
Research Area(s): Fish ecology, Water quality, Aquatic biogeochemistry, Impacts of ultraviolet radiation on aquatic ecosystems, Aquatic microbial ecology
George William Sherk JD, DSc Consultant
Research Area(s): Law, Environmental and natural resources law and policy, Environmental management and environmental health
Toddi Steelman PhD Stanback Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
Research Area(s): Environmental and natural resource governance, Public and community decision-making, The interface between science, policy, and decision-making, Climate change adaptation, Disaster-resilient communities, Wildfire preparedness and response
Jason Venkiteswaran PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Research Area(s): Aquatic metabolism, Algal bloom dynamics, Geochemistry of natural waters
Francisco Villamarín PhD Lecturer Researcher, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Ecuador
Research Area(s): Freshwater ecology, Conservation and human livelihoods, Role of aquatic vertebrates in energy flow through food webs
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
Research Area(s): Hydrological science, Sustainable water resource management, Flooding, water resources, and water quality