Water

Dr. Farah Shroff, BSc, MEd (Primary Health Care), PhD

Dr. Farah Shroff, BSc, MEd (Primary Health Care), PhD

Public Health Researcher and Educator

public health, social equity, women’s health, global politics, social determinants of health, anti-racism, anti-imperialism, integrative health, holistic health practices, yoga, meditation, indigenous systems of health, health policy,

Ziad Shawwash, PhD

Ziad Shawwash, PhD

Assistant Professor

Water resource engineering, modeling and optimization of civil engineering systems, hydropower engineering, planning and design of water and electric power systems, hydrology, flood risk management

Villy Christensen, PhD

Villy Christensen, PhD

Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries

Director, Global Ocean Modeling

Ecosystem modeling, global ocean, IPBES, Ecopath, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases

Rehan Sadiq, PhD, PEng

Rehan Sadiq, PhD, PEng

Professor and Associate Dean

Environmental risk analysis, water supply systems, life cycle assessment, infrastructure reliability

John Wagner, PhD

John Wagner, PhD

Associate Professor

Environmental anthropology, political ecology, water, water governance, agriculture, food security, food sovereignty, Columbia River Treaty, Columbia River Basin, local ecological knowledge, community-based resource management, language documentation, Okanagan Valley, Creston Valley, Columbia Basin Project area, British Columbia, Washington State, Papua New Guinea

Dr. Juan José Alava, PhD

Dr. Juan José Alava, PhD

Research Associate & Principal Investigator

marine eco-toxicology, ocean conservation and pollution, environmental toxicology and chemistry, food web bioaccumulation modeling of pollutants (Bioaccumulation Science), ocean pollution by plastics/microplastics, sea turtles and marine mammals’ eco-toxicology, marine ecology, conservation biology, tropical biodiversity, and ecology, fishery science and management, climate change science, the impact of climate change and acidification in marine organisms and fisheries, climate change adaptation strategies in fisheries, population dynamics and conservation of marine mammals, biology and conservation of marine mammals, seabirds and sea turtles, field ornithology, aquatic microbiology, eco-toxicological risk assessment, environmental impact assessments and environmental policy, public health, tropical parasitology, and environmental/conservation medicine,

Dr. Sean Fleming

Dr. Sean Fleming

Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences

Applied R&D Technical Lead, National Water and Climate Center, US Department of Agriculture

Water resources, hydrology, flooding, water supply, water quality, rivers, groundwater, forecasting, prediction, computational modeling, artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, climate variability, climate change, contaminated sites, environmental remediation, mountain glaciers, geophysics, practical applications, environmental monitoring, environmental management, water resource management, environmental policy, public engagement, science and society,

John Janmaat, PhD

John Janmaat, PhD

Associate Professor

Water resource economics, natural resource economics, value of environmental goods and services, value of ecological goods and services, environmental economics

Fariborz Taghipour, PhD, PEng

Fariborz Taghipour, PhD, PEng

Professor

Solar Fuels, UV Photoreactors, Sensor & Biosensor, Modeling of Chemical and Biochemical Reactors

Leila Harris, PhD

Professor

water governance, water security, gender, Turkey, South Africa, Environmental Justice

Anil Shrestha

Lecturer/Research Coordinator

Conservation, development, climate change, Himalayas

Ali Ameli

Ali Ameli

Assistant Professor

Groundwater, ecohydrology, hydrology, hydrogeological engineering, watershed management, land-use change, wetland, forest management

Dr. Andrea Reid, PhD

Dr. Andrea Reid, PhD

Assistant Professor

Indigenous Fisheries, Indigenous Science, Aquatic Conservation, Freshwater Ecology, Freshwater Conservation, Land-based Learning,

Dr. Rachel Scholes

Dr. Rachel Scholes

Assistant Professor

Environmental chemistry, trace contaminants, contaminants of emerging concern, water reuse, nature-based solutions, constructed wetlands, water treatment, wastewater treatment, stormwater, PFAS, green chemistry, safer alternatives, biodegradation

Ms. Elise Legarth, MSc

Ms. Elise Legarth, MSc

PhD Student, Weather Forecast Research Team

Hydrometerology, hydrology, water resources, probable maximum precipitation, probable maximum flood, flooding, flood risk management, forecasting, extreme rainfall events, weather, climate change, numerical weather prediction, computational modeling, environmental management, horticultural and agricultural systems water supply and water quality, land-use change