Faculty
Research InterestsAssessing impacts of air pollution on natural environment; air pollution; soil weathering; environmental modelling.
Research InterestsMy main interest are the distribution of insects in Northern Ontario, invasive species, and insect pest populations of beef and dairy farms.
Research InterestsMy research interests are in environmental history, the history of science, and the roles of science in environmental policy. My current projects include a history of environmental science in the Canadian Arctic, the historical and contemporary roles of science in the salmon aquaculture industry, and the history of conservation science in relation to global protected areas.
Research Interests
- Environmental biogeochemistry and analytical chemistry
- Fate and transport of nutrients, metals, and metalloids
- Development of analytical tools for emerging contaminants
- Applications of isotope composition to paleoenvironmental studies and forensic geochemistry
- Environmental biogeochemistry and analytical chemistry
- Fate and transport of nutrients, metals, and metalloids
- Development of analytical tools for emerging contaminants
- Applications of isotope composition to paleoenvironmental studies and forensic geochemistry
Research Interests
- Aquatic invasive species
- Fish population ecology
- Fisheries management
- Aquatic invasive species
- Fish population ecology
- Fisheries management
Research InterestsI am interested in modelling the fate and bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants and mercury in aquatic ecosystems and wildlife including marine mammals, and applying these models for sight-specific risk assessments.
Research InterestsMy interests include climate and energy policy, particularly the planning and public engagement around low-carbon energy infrastructure. I am also interested in community sustainability and community-based research.
Research InterestsBiogeochemistry, speciation and fate of metals in the environment, with particular focus on mercury and nanoparticles. Use of stable isotopes, and measurement of fractionation and precise isotope ratios of heavy metals. Research involves field work in whole ecosystem studies and instrumental analysis using state-of-the-art high resolution mass spectrometry.
Research InterestsRestoration and revegetation of acidic and toxic mine sites, adaptations of plants to heavy metal and acidity stress and to air pollution including sulphur dioxide, ozone and acid rain, ecology of tundra and boreal forests, use of heritage livestock breeds in sustainable agriculture.
Jean-François Koprivnjak
Research Associate
Environmental & Life Sciences Graduate Program, Water Quality Centre
Research Interests
- Geo-chemistry, chemistry, and physical properties of aquatic dissolved organic matter. These properties include elemental make-up (C, H, O, N, S), 13C, 15N, and 2H isotopic signatures, acidic properties.
- Influence of dissolved organic matter on fate of trace metals and organic contaminants.
- Bioavailability of DOM
- CO2 dynamics in Boreal systems
- Geo-chemistry, chemistry, and physical properties of aquatic dissolved organic matter. These properties include elemental make-up (C, H, O, N, S), 13C, 15N, and 2H isotopic signatures, acidic properties.
- Influence of dissolved organic matter on fate of trace metals and organic contaminants.
- Bioavailability of DOM
- CO2 dynamics in Boreal systems
Research InterestsI am interested in the fate and effects of contaminants in the environment, water quality, watershed management, and environmental influences on Indigenous peoples.
Karla Newman
ICP-MS Research Associate, Adjunct Faculty Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program
Water Quality Centre
Research InterestsMy research focuses on the application of ICP-MS in geochemical, environmental and life science fields for elemental and isotopic analysis. This includes fundamental studies of the ICP, for example isotope-dependent oxide formation during ion extraction. Areas of applied research include the development of single particle ICP-MS for the characterization of small (< 20 nm) nanoparticles in natural waters, measurement of Pb and Li isotope ratios at low (ng/L) concentrations and gas phase ion molecule reaction chemistry for chemical resolution of isobaric interferences, specifically for the measurement of radionuclides.
Raul Ponce-Hernandez
Associate Professor; Director of the Applied Geomatics, Remote Sensing and Land Resources Laboratory
Trent School of the Environment
Research InterestsI am interested in land resources processes and assessment through Computer Modelling and Applied Geospatial Sciences, including Remote Sensing, GIS, GPS and UAV. The impacts of climate change on land, water and vegetation resources and in applications to watershed management, and agriculture.
Naomi Stock
Senior Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor
Water Quality Centre and Department of Chemistry and Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program
Research InterestsMy primary research interests are environmental organic mass spectrometry. I am currently involved in mass spectromtery based environmental metabolomics. I am also interested in method development for analysis of organic contaminants and characterization of complex environmental samples.
Dirk Wallschläger
Professor and Director
Water Quality Centre, School of the Environment and Chemistry Department