Sie-Tan Chieng, PhD, PEng
Professor Emeritus
Irrigation and drainage for food and non-food plant production, water management system planning, design, installation and operation, environment, soil-water-plant relationships, soil and water conservation, soil salinity and reclamation, water quality, environmental impact assessment, hydrology, windblown dust mitigation
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,
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
Aaron Boley, PhD
Associate Professor
Astronomy, planetary science, solar system, space science
Brett Gladman
Professor
Astronomy, planetary science, meteorites, astrobiology, solar system, space science
Ludovic Van Waerbeke
Associate Professor
Astrophysics, cosmology, dark matter, dark energy, universe, gravitational lensing, galaxy, galaxies, structure formation, solar system, space science
Prof. Peter Arcese, MSc, PhD
Professor
FRBC Chair in Applied Conservation Biology
Conservation biology, spatial planning, birds, mammals, plants, small populations, cultural uses, evolution, ecology, wildlife ecology, invasive species, overabundant species, inbreeding, rapid evolution, climate change, habitat change,
Dr. Scott G. Hinch
Professor
Director, Natural Resources Conservation Program
Salmon migrations, salmon ecology, salmon fisheries, fish conservation, land use impacts (e.g. forestry) on fish and habitat
Dr. John Richardson, PhD
Professor
water, endangered species, species at risk, freshwater, conservation, wildlife, ecology, populations, ecosystems, invertebrates,
Sean Smukler, PhD
Associate Professor, Applied Biology & Soil Science
Junior Chair, Agriculture and the Environment
Agriculture, environment, sustainable development, ecosystem services, biological diversity
Dr. Felix Wiesner, MEng, PhD
Assistant Professor
fire safety, timber engineering, fire resistance, fire protection, fire science, flammability, tall timber buildings, structural fire safety,
Dr. Sean Michaletz, BA, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor
Forest fires, climate change, global warming, tree mortality, forest disturbance, plant ecology, plant-environment interactions, tree physiology, photosynthesis, fire management, forest monitoring, carbon cycle, productivity, global change, macro-ecology,
Mark Schmidt
Associate Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
Canada Research Chair in Large-Scale Machine Learning
Canada CIFAR AI Chair (Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute)
Machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning, numerical optimization, data science, Medical AI,
Roland Stull, PhD in Atmospheric Science
Professor
Certified Consulting Meteorologist
Numerical weather prediction, weather for wind and hydro power, clean energy meteorology, weather-related natural disasters, storms, free textbooks, atmospheric science
Daniel Pauly, PhD
University Killam Professor
Global fisheries, marine biology, fisheries management
Prof. William Mohn, PhD
Professor
microbiology, microbial ecology, microbiome, bacterial catabolism, lignin degradation, lignocellulose degradation, steroid degradation, aromatic compound degradation, forest soil ecology, genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, metatranscriptomics, vaccine response, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bioproducts,
Philip Austin, PhD
Associate Professor
Global climate, climate change, greenhouse effect, global warming, clouds, lightning, storms, greenhouse gases
Dominique Weis, PhD
Professor
Canada Research Chair (Geochemistry of the Earth’s Mantle)
Isotopic geochemistry, mass spectrometry, environmental geochemistry, mantle plumes, large igneous provinces, volcanoes, sea research, Kerguelen, Hawaii
Stephen Raverty
Veterinary Pathologist
Adjunct Professor
Veterinary pathology, marine mammal health, infectious disease and anthropogenic impacts on whales, dolphins, porpoises