All Faculty


Core Faculty

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


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Grant Ferguson PhD Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability | Joint Appointment College of Engineering, Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental 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 Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability | Joint Appointment College of Engineering, Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering

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


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Tim Jardine PhD Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

Member, Toxicology Centre


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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


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

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 | Joint Appointment College of Engineering, Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering

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

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

Picture of  Angela  Bedard-Haughn

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

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


Picture of  Jeremy  Rayner

Jeremy Rayner Professor, Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy

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


Picture of  Jafar Soltan

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


Picture of  Andrew Watson

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


Sheri Andrews-Key PhD Chief Scientist & Founder, Innovative Climate Strategies


Elvis Asong PhD Founder and CEO, Climalogik


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


Valencia Gaspard PhD Policy Advisor, Natural Resources Canada


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


Naveed Khaliq PhD National Research Council of Canada


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


David Muir PhD Staff Scientist, Industry Development Education Application Student (IDEAS) beamline, Canadian Light Source


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

Picture of Jay Famiglietti

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