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Adjunct and Sessional Faculty Members

Erin Bennett

Erin Bennett

Adjunct Faculty

Research Interests: Environmental fate and effects of organic contaminants; water quality in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS); contaminant mitigation using Green infrastructure; environmental analytical chemistry

Bennett Google Scholar
Email: erbennett @ trentu.ca

 

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Kim Bergeron

Sessional Faculty Member

BA (Trent), MHST (Athabasca), PhD (Queen’s)

Research Interests: Planning age-friendly communities; vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations (e.g., older adults, those with disabilities, living on low-income, young adults with life limiting conditions); municipal practices and policies and the health impacts

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Email: kbergeron @ trentu.ca

Timothy Haxton

Adjunct Professor

BSc (Guelph), MSc (Trent), PhD (Ottawa).

Research Interests: Fisheries science; anthropogenic stressors on riverine large-bodied fish; population dynamics and factors that influence them at a landscape scale

Email: timothyhaxton @ trentu.ca

 

Richard Lindgren

Sessional Faculty Member

BA (w.Dist.), LLB (Queen's)

Research Interests: Environmental law, regulation, and policy at the federal, provincial and municipal level

Email: richardlindgren @ trentu.ca

 

Ken Lyon

Sessional Faculty Member

BA (Princeton), MSc (Queen’s), PGeo

Research Interests: Hydrogeology; environmental site assessment; remediation of contaminated sites and other impacts to the environment; Ontario and Alberta upstream and downstream oil and gas; nuclear energy; manufacturing; urban transportation; waste management; water resources

Email: kennethlyon @ trentu.ca

Mary Ann Martin

Sessional Faculty Member

BSW (University of Western Ontario), MSW (University of Toronto), PhD (Canadian Studies, Trent University)

Research Interests: Food systems; food insecurity, homelessness, poverty, and other forms of social inequity; policy and programmatic solutions to social inequity; community-based research

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Email: marymartin @ trentu.ca

​James MurphyJames Murphy

Sessional Faculty Member

BA (Laurentian); MA (Trent)

Research Interests: Parks and protected area management; role of parks and protected areas in sustainable development; Indigenous rights and protected areas; effectiveness of protected areas in conserving biodiversity

Email: jamesmmurphy @ trentu.ca

 

A person with a beard wearing a hat and eyeglasses against snowy tree backgroundDennis Papadopoulos

Sessional Faculty Member

BA (York), MA (Concordia), PhD (York)

Research Interests: Environmental philosophy, non-human agency (i.e. animal agents, or ecological agents like rivers); animal ethics, especially the "political turn;" animal minds, the evolution of cooperation and morality

Papadopoulos Google scholar
Email: dennispapadopoulos @ trentu.ca

Jacob RodenburgJacob Rodenburg

Sessional Faculty Member

BA (Trent), BEd, MEd (Queens) 

Research Interests: Fostering an ethic of stewardship in children of all ages; promoting nature connection; exploring sustainable living; building partnerships to encourage community based environmental education

Email: jacobrodenburg @ trentu.ca

 

Photo of Laurie Westaway smiling in front of the Environmental Science Building at Trent UniversityLaurie Westaway

Sessional Faculty Member

Research Interests: Successful implementation of waste, water, and energy management projects

Email: lwestaway @ trentu.ca

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