Jan Adamowski - Bioresource Engineering
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Collaborative, integrated and adaptive water resources management; Participatory socio-hydrological modeling; Artificial intelligence applications in hydrology; Sustainable agriculture; Food and water security
Parisa Ariya - Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioaerosols, chemical transformation of mercury in the atmosphere and air, snow, water interface
Darin Barney - Art History and Communication Studies
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Politics of energy, infrastructure and environment
Christopher Barrett - Chemistry
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Developing new green materials for sustainable engineering, light-responsive polymers for solar energy harvesting, bio-inspired materials design, self-assembly
Niladri Basu - School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition; Natural Resource Science
RESEARCH INTERESTS: A) EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT within the context of Environmental and Occupational Health; B) ECOTOXICOLOGY with a focus on next-generation risk assessment, biomarkers, neurotoxicology; C) ECOGENETICS with a focus on genetic polymorphisms (SNPs), gene-environment interactions, and epigenetics D) GLOBAL HEALTH with a focus on capacity building, mining, and exposure assessments
Jill Baumgartner - Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy and the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health
RESEARCH INTERESS: Understanding what factors influence people's exposure to environmental pollutants, their impact on health and the environment, and interventions to address them
Caroline Begg - Plant Science
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Ecological agriculture using sustainable practices to improve soil and crop management; research on food security on the island of Montreal using urban agriculture and collective and community gardens
Mette Bendixen - Geography
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Arctic landscape changes and global sand scarcity; understanding Anthropogenic pressure on and interlinkages with the landscape to create a sustainable future; study of land cover dynamics, environment urbanization and sustainability
Christopher Buddle - Natural Resource Sciences and Associate Provost (Teaching and Academic Programs)
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Terrestrial arthropod biodiversity and ecology, in particular spider and insect diversity in managed and unmanaged forests. Interests also include canopy arthropod ecology, the role of generalist predators in food webs, integrated pest management, and spider ecology, life history and taxonomy
Lauren Chapman - Biology
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Aquatic ecology and conservation in Africa
Jonathan Chevrier - Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Impact of exposure to common environmental contaminants on child health and development
Grant Clark - Bioresource Engineering
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Ecological engineering, Scientific computing, Modeling and simulation, Microbiological systems, Agricultural systems, Complex adaptive systems
Brian Driscoll - Natural Resource Sciences
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Understanding the exchange of nutrients that occurs between plants and bacteria during symbiotic nitrogen fixation.
Pierre Dutilleul - Plant Science
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Agricultural, biological and environmental sciences, with animal, earth and plant sciences, chronobiology and dendrochronology, forest ecology and limnology, quantitative genetics and wood technology as subfields of application. Autocorrelation, complexity, heterogeneity, heteroscedasticity, nonstationarity, periodicity, scale, and structure
John G. Galaty - Anthropology
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Pastoralism and rural development, East Africa
Susan Gaskin - Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Environmental fluid mechanics and water resources management
Jessica Gillung - Natural Resource Sciences
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Specialization in entomology; biodiversity discovery and cataloging; DNA sequencing, morphological features of organisms, and ecological and distributional data to understand how insects evolved and diversified
Richard Gold - Law
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Intellectual property, biotechnology, information technology, property, commercial practices, international trade law
Andrew Gonzalez - Biology
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Extinction in fragmented landscape, ecosystem impacts of climate change.
David M. Green - Redpath Museum
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Amphibian species ranges and boundaries
Irene Gregory-Eaves - Biology
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Structure and functioning of lakes and to quantify how lakes have responded to the accelerated rate of change introduced by human activities since the Industrial Revolution
Blane Harvey - Department of Integrated Studies in Education
RESEARCH INTERESTS: How climate change knowledge is produced, validated and communicated, and how facilitated learning and knowledge sharing can support action on climate change
Gordon Hickey - Natural Resource Sciences
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Sustainability of the natural environment. In particular, natural resource policy, regulation and assessment, associated international development programs and forest management. His research draws upon numerous disciplines to integrate science-based knowledge with socio-economic considerations. This is done to inform strategic decision-making at a range of scales and support innovative resource-based policies
Lars Iversen - Department of Biology
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Focusing on both standing and running waters, he studies contemporary changes in landform types, the distribution of species functional adaptations, and the interlinkage between landscape changes and ecosystem functioning
Richard Janda - Law
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Administrative process, economic regulation, business associations, competition law, air transport regulation
Sebastien Jodoin - Law
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Sustainable development, transnational law, public policy, environmental law and governance, climate change, human rights, disability, social innovation, and socio-legal research.
Geza Joos - Electrical & Computer Engineering
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Power electronic converters and power system compensation
Cynthia Kallenbach - Natural Resource Sciences
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Identifying and explaining the fundamental ecological and biogeochemical processes that characterize soil carbon and nutrient cycling, especially under managed ecosystems such as croplands.
Mark Lefsrud - Bioresource Engineering
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biofuels, biomass production, controlled environments, secondary compounds and proteomics.
Nik Luka - School of Architecture
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Comparative studies of transdisciplinary strategies for landscape connectivity; the rural-urban fringe, including second homes and the ways in which landscape amenities affect patterns of growth and development over time; collaborations and contestations in processes of intensification in postwar suburban landscapes (including transit-oriented development); active transportation in urban, suburban, and periurban contexts; urban design, landscape planning, nature/culture narratives
Graham MacDonald - Geography
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Examining how international food trade influences agricultural resource-use efficiency globally; tracking changes in national food supplies over time, focusing on the relative stability or volatility of food import relationships, identifying strategies to enhance food system resilience across scales
Chandra Madramootoo - Bioresource Engineering
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Water management, irrigation, drainage, water quality, watershed management, food security, agricultural research, and international agriculture development.
Nagissa Mahmoudi - Earth & Planetary Sciences
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Microbial processes that mediate the fate and transformation of organic compounds in coastal and marine environments.
Thom Meredith - Geography
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Management of natural, ecological resources
Van-Thanh-Van Nguyen - Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Hydrology and water resources management
Jim A. Nicell - Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Environmental engineering
katia.opalka [at] mcgill.ca (Katia Opalka) - Bieler School Adjunct Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Environmental law, international trade compliance and aboriginal risk management.
Stephanie Posthumus - Languages, Literatures, and Culture
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Representations of the non-human, or more-than-human, in contemporary French literature
Catherine Potvin - Biology
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Physiological ecology
Brian Robinson - Geography
RESEARCH INTERESTS: How people meet their needs through use of ecosystems and natural resources, and the role this plays in development in poorer regions of the world
Nigel Roulet - Geography
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Earth system science, biogeochemistry, and ecohydrology
Jaswinder Singh - Plant Science
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Integration of molecular and genomic tools with plant biology to develop enhanced crop plants. In particular, I am interested to incorporate novel genes to add value to crop production by bridging the gap between molecular biology and plant breeding in a in a changing world.
Donald Smith - Plant Science
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Crop eco-physiology; the use of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), and signal compound produced by them, to increase the growth and yield many crops; the use of the signal compounds produced by rhizobia during the establishment of the rhizobia-legume symbiosis to directly promote plant growth.
Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert - History
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Social and environmental history of natural resource extraction in Latin America. This includes projects on the environmental history of colonial mining, early Iberian discourses on the transformation of nature, the historical geography of mining in Mexico over the longue durée, and the history of autochthonous landscapes on the Isthmus of Panama.
Paul Thomassin - Natural Resource Sciences
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Environmental and resource economics. Projects include economic-ecological macroeconomic modeling, the institutional design of domestic greenhouse gas emission trading, and the non-market valuation of environmental goods and services.
Nathalie Tufenkji - Chemical Engineering
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Water treatment, plastic pollution, environmental nanotechnology, sustainability, particulate contaminants
Viviane Yargeau - Chemical Engineering
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Chemical and environmental engineering, analytical chemistry, microbiology and ecotoxicology and long-term objective of protecting water resources
Yann le Polain de Waroux - Geography
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Livelihood and land use choices as a nexus between social and environmental, and global and local dynamics; globalization, human and capital mobility and land-use change and its implications for development and environmental sustainability.