Department of Biology
Research Interests: How aquatic communities respond and adapt to regional disturbance including invasive species, calcium decline, and climate change.
Research Interests: How ecological and environmental change occurs in lakes over decades to millennia from natural and human-based stressors, understanding modern distributions of organisms and reconstructing past communities by exloiting the richness of the deminetary record of lakes.
Cross-appointed to School of Environmental Studies
George diCenzo Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Metabolism, and its regulation in prokaryotic organisms, Genetics and metabolism of nodulation and nitrogen fixation, Function and evolution of multipartite genomes in bacteria
Research Interests: bioremeditation and synthetic biology, biological processes that convert environmental contaminants such as heavy metals and excess nutriets into detoxified compounds and commercially valuable products.
Research Interests: the origins of vertebrate biodiversity from single landscapes through species' ranges to entire species assemblages, quantifying human impacts on Canadian species of conservation concern.
Cross-appointed to School of Environmental Studies
Bill Nelson Associate Professor
Research Interests: The interaction between individual-scale life histories and the dynamics of populations and communities.
Diane Orihel Assistant Professor
Research Interests: the fate and effects of chemicals in the environment to guide sound public policy decisions, mercury contamination of food webs, nutrient pollution and harmful algal blooms, ecological impacts of extracting and transporting unconventional oil.
Cross-appointed to School of Environmental Studies
Research Interests: how ecosystems change over long time frames in response to natural and human-induced environmental change, climate change, nutrient enrichment, contaminant transport, environmental legacies of acid rain, arctic and alpine ecosystems.
Cross-appointed to School of Environmental Studies
Research Interests: Conservation and sustainable use of freshwater fisheries in Canada, developing better approcahes for inland aquaculture in recircualtion systems.
Yuxiang Wang Associate Professor
Research Interests: Understanding the mechanisms that animals, primarily fish, use to achieve metabolic balance under different natural environment conditions and physiological states. Characterize the physiological mechanisms that fish use to cope with anthropogenic stressors, optimize the growth and rearing conditions for aquatic organisms.
Cross-appointed to School of Environmental Studies
Department of Chemistry
Cathleen Crudden Professor
Research Interests: l Hydroboration, organometallic Chemistry, N-heterocyclic Carbene Complexes, Mesoporous/Nanoporous Silicates, Chiral Materials, Controlled Drug Delivery.
Graeme Howe Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Elucidation of enzyme mechanisms, Understanding natural and directed evolution of enzymes, Evaluating the role of protein dynamics in catalysis, Kinetic isotope effects as mechanistic probes, Computational modelling of transition states, Interplay of solvent effects and transition state structures
Stephen Brown Associate Professor
Research Interests: the development of new methods of environmental analysis, with emphasis on detecting small organic compounds in aqueous samples.
Cross-appointed to School of Environmental Studies
Research Interests: the conversion of CO2 into useful products, CO2 as a trigger for switchable systems, biomass conversion and separation.
Valérie Langlois Associate Professor
Research Interests: the harmful effects on vertebrates, chemicals found in aquatic environments, identification of physiological responses and regulatory mehanisms in vertebrates when in the presence of environmental contaminants.
Zhe She Assistant Professor
Research Interests: portable biosensors, probing biological interactions on surfaces, methods for environmental monitoring and clinical diagnostics, creating micro- and nanostructures, electrochemical properties of thin films, scanning probe microscopy techniques.
Environmental Studies
Ryan Danby Associate Professor
Research Interests: Ecosystem change (terrestrial ecosystem change and species distributions at multiple scales), Biodiversity Conservation (conservation sceince, planning and management at multiple spatial scales)
Cross-appointed to Department of Geography and Planning
Peter Hodson Professor Emeritus
Research Interests: the toxicity of diluted bitumen to native fish species of Canada and the identification of molecular markers of oil exposure and effects.
Research Interests: Environmental biotehcnology, government policies impact the contributions immigrants make to innovation and investigating how universities advance a country's social wealth.
Cross-appointed to Chemical Engineering
Kristen Lowitt Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Sustainable food systems, food sovereignty, small-scale fisheries, natural resource governance, community development
Graham Whitelaw Associate Professor
Research Interests: Environment and sustainabiltiy, focused primarily on three interrelated themes: regional planning, monitoring and envrionemntal assessment, Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan.
Cross-appointed to School of Urban and Regional Planning
Geography and Planning
Research Interests: the understanding and modeling of interactions between human activities and the physical environment by using GIS and remote sensing techniques and spatial modeling approaches from local to regional scales.
Cross-appointed to School of Environmental Studies
Melissa Lafrenière Associate Professor
Research Interests: examining climate change and human impacts on the hydrology and biogeochemistry of alpine and arctic environments.
Research Interests: hydrology, geomorphology, limnology, climatology. The role of climate and permafrost change play in altering Arctic surface waters and landscapes.
Research Interests: the interface between renewable energy policy and technologies, with particular emphasis on wood energy and biofuels.
Cross-appointed to School of Environmental Studies and Head of School of Policy Studies
Research Interests: examining changing demographic, socio-economic and geographic characteristics of various groups within the Canadian popualtion.
Neal Scott Associate Professor
Research Interests: understanding of the processes of carbon and nitrogen cycling in terrestrial ecosystems, and how human-induced disturbances influence processes.
Global Development Studies
Research Interests: debates over public versus private service delivery (with a focus on water, electricity and health care), but encompass a broad spectrum of related questions on urbanization, environmental justice and uneven development.
Cross-appointed to School of Environmental Studies
Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
Victoria Remenda Associate Professor
Research Interests: Aplied Geo-Environmental Science & Geotechnique.
Elisabeth Steel Assistant Professor
Bas Vriens Assistant Professor
Research Interests: sources, behaviour and environmental footprints of trace metals in large-scale waste streams