Julian Aherne
Associate Professor
BA, Graduate Diploma (Trinity College Dublin); MApplSc, PhD (University College Dublin)
Research and Teaching: impacts of air pollution on natural ecosystems, and transport, fate, and accumulation of microplastics in the environment.
Please contact me if you are interested in an undergraduate thesis, accelerated MSc, or graduate research on air pollution or microplastics. [projects]
Aherne Google Scholar
Office: ESC B303 Email: jaherne @ trentu.ca
Daniel Amoak
Assistant Professor
BA (Ghana); MPhil (Oslo); MA (Brock); PhD (Western)
Research and Teaching: Sustainable agriculture and food systems, food security, food and agricultural policy; agroecology for climate resilient, equal and healthy communities; environmental and health; community-based participatory research, social inequalities and rural development.
Office: ESC A107 Email: danielamoak @ trentu.ca
David Beresford
Associate Professor
Cross-appointed with Biology
BSc (Trent); BEd (Queen's); PhD (Trent)
Research and Teaching: Role of dispersal in insect and mite populations; stable flies as pests of dairy and beef farms, and insect diversity in the Hudson Bay lowlands; insects that colonize corpses, such as blow flies and carrion beetles
Beresford Lab
Office: LHS D217 Email: davidberesford @ trentu.ca
Kira Borden
Assistant Professor
BSc (Queen's); MSc, PhD (Toronto)
Research and Teaching: Investigating the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum in agroecosystems; developing new methods to co-assess plant nutrient acquisition strategies and greenhouse gas emissions; applications for enhancing research and management of more diversified agroecosystems, such as with agroforestry, intercropping, and cover cropping practices, nutrient cycling and sustainable agriculture
kiraborden.com
Office: ESC A115 Email: kiraborden @ trentu.ca
Mary-Claire Buell
Assistant Professor
Cross-appointed with Forensic Science
BSc (Guelph); MA, PhD (Trent)
Research and Teaching: Investigating the source, fate, transport, and impacts of legacy and contemporary contaminants; the connections between contaminants and environmental justice through transdisciplinary approaches bringing together environmental toxicology, chemistry, and community knowledges
TRACE Lab
Office: ESC C127 Email: maryclairebuell @ trentu.ca
Olivia Carpino
Assistant Professor, LTA
BSc, MSc (Guelph); PhD (Laurier)
Research and Teaching: Climate change in northern environments; ecohydrological impacts of permafrost thaw; geomatics applications in monitoring long term changes to landcover and permafrost; climate science, hydrology, geomorphic processes, and GIS
Carpino LinkedIn
Office: ESC A132 Email: oliviacarpino @ trentu.ca
Huy Dang
Associate Professor
Cross-appointed with Chemistry
BSc, MSc, PhD (Toulon)
Research and Teaching: 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
ENIGMA Lab at Trent University
Office: CSB F114 Email: huydang @ trentu.ca
Tapan Dhar
Assistant Professor
BArch (Khulna); MUrban Design (Hong Kong); PhD (Waterloo)
Research and Teaching: Human dimensions of climate change (adaptation); urban resilience; risk perception; environmental planning and management; community planning; urban design; and qualitative research
Dhar Google Scholar
Office: ESC B307 Email: tapandhar @ trentu.ca
Catherine Eimers
Professor
Associate Director, Trent School of the Environment
Water Sciences Program Coordinator
BSc (Toronto); MSc (Trent); PhD (Waterloo)
Research and Teaching: Impacts of climate and land use change on soil and water resources; physical geography, soil science, applied geoscience, and climate change.
Please contact me if you are interested in an undergraduate thesis related to climate or human impacts on soil and water resources. A list of possible projects can be found here, or check out my research website for more research opportunities.
Eimers Research Gate
Office: ESC A142 Email: ceimers @ trentu.ca
Chris Furgal
Associate Professor
Cross-appointed with Indigenous Studies
Indigenous Environmental Sciences Studies Program Coordinator
BSc, MSc (Western Ontario); PhD (Waterloo)
Research and Teaching: Indigenous knowledge and science for environmental health research; impacts of food security and climate change on health of northern Indigenous communities
Furgal Google Scholar
Office: GSC 303 Email: chrisfurgal @ trentu.ca
Brendan Hickie
Associate Professor
BScAgr (Guelph); MSc, PhD (Waterloo)
Research and Teaching: The study of fate of contaminants in aquatic ecosystems, their bioaccumulation through food webs and particularly accumulation by wildlife such as marine mammals, mink and river otter; natural science statistics, environmental toxicology and pollution ecology
Hickie ResearchGate
Office: ESC A102 Email: bhickie @ trentu.ca
Stephen Hill
Associate Professor
Director, Trent School of the Environment
BA, BSc (Queen's); PhD (Calgary); PEng
Research and Teaching: Energy science, technology and policy; social responses to renewable energy technology; climate change policy and management; environmental and organizational risk management and policy
Hill Google Scholar
Office: ESC B202.1 Email: stephenhill @ trentu.ca
Holger Hintelmann
Professor
Cross-appointed with Chemistry
Interim VP of Research and Innovation
BSc, PhD (Hamburg)
Research and Teaching: Factors that control the (bio)availability of metals to develop descriptive models predicting their fate in the environment
Hintelmann Google Scholar
Office: CSB F113 Email: hhintelmann @ trentu.ca
Shelley Hunt
Assistant Professor, LTA
BSc (Guelph); PhD (Guelph)
Research and Teaching: Forest ecology; carbon and nutrient cycling in boreal forest ecosystems; plant community ecology; management of forests and other natural resources; impacts of human activities on ecosystem structure and function.
Office: ESC C125 Email: shelleyhunt @ trentu.ca
Jean-François Koprivnjak
Assistant Professor
Director, Instrumental Chemical Analysis Graduate Program (MICA)
BSc, MSc (McGill); PhD (Georgia Tech)
Research and Teaching: Dissolved freshwater organic matter (DOM), organic pollutants and the effect of climate change on their interactions; aquatic geochemistry; low molecular weight stable isotope geochemistry; CO2 gas from boreal lakes; climate change; water policy; environmental chemistry
Koprivnjak Google Scholar
Office: ESC A135 Email: jkoprivnjak @ trentu.ca
Cheryl McKenna Neuman
Professor
Coordinator, Geography Program
BSc (Queen's); MSc (Guelph); PhD (Queen's)
Research and Teaching: Process geomorphology; mechanics of sediment transport; experimental fluid dynamics; dust emission and air quality; wind tunnel simulation
Trent Environmental Wind Tunnel Research Group
Office: ESC A144 Email: cmckneuman @ trentu.ca
Heather Nicol
Professor
Program Coordinator, Circumpolar Studies Diploma
Director, School for the Study of Canada
BA (Toronto); MES (York); PhD (Queen's)
Research and Teaching: Political geography and sovereignty of the circumpolar North, specifically North American Arctic and Canada-US cross-border relations; geopolitical narratives; power mapping
Nicol Google Scholar
Office: TCKH 205 Email: heathernicol @ trentu.ca
Neil Osborne
Assistant Professor (LTA)
BSc (Trent); MA (Ohio); PhD (York)
Research and Teaching: Econarratology; empirical ecocritism; environmental communication; climate change communication; transmedia storytelling; photojournalism and photography; environmental and climate change communication; environment and politics; environmental science and studies; and human geography
neileverosborne.com
Office: ESC A107 Email: neilosborne @ trentu.ca
Anne Pasek
Associate Professor
Cross-appointed with Cultural Studies
Canada Research Chair in Media, Culture and the Environment
BA (Alberta); MA (McGill); PhD (New York)
Research and Teaching: Low carbon research methods; digital culture; infrastructure, science and technology studies; Information and Communication Technology and energy
annepasek.com
Office: TCSH 204 Email: annepasek @ trentu.ca
Matthew Perras
Associate Professor
BScEng (Queen's); MSCEng (Queen's); PhD (Queen's); PEng
Research and Teaching: Hard rock geology; structural geology; environmental geology; rock mechanics; underground excavations; environmental influences on rocks; geo-archeology; long-term rock behaviour
Office: ESC A115 Email: matthewperras @ trentu.ca
Roger Picton
Associate Professor
BA (Trent); MA (Carleton); PhD (Toronto)
Research and Teaching: Fieldwork and experiential learning; planning and urban waterfronts; brewpubs and post-industrial redevelopment; critical and practical perspectives on urban life; human geography: urban geography, urban planning, urban environments, and the geography of beer
Picton Research Gate
Office: ESC A120 Email: rogerpicton @ trentu.ca
Raul Ponce-Hernandez
Associate Professor
BEng (National School of Agriculture Mexico); (Autonoma Chapingo); PhD (Oxford)
Research and Teaching: Climate change impacts modeling on agriculture, forests and water resources; design of adaptation options; GIS/ Remote Sensing modeling for watershed management and natural resource planning; soil management and integrated watershed management
Ponce-Hernandez Research Gate
Office: ESC B304 Email: rponce @ trentu.ca
Ian Power
Associate Professor
Environmental Geoscience Program Coordinator
Canada Research Chair in Environmental Geoscience
BSc, PhD (Western Ontario); PGeo (ON)
Research and Teaching: Geochemical and mineralogical processes, environmental challenges; carbon dioxide removal: an emerging field in geosciences
Power Geo Lab
Office: CSB E114 Email: ianpower @ trentu.ca
Stephanie Rutherford
Associate Professor
Master in Sustainability Studies Program Director
BA (Toronto); MSc (Guelph); PhD (York)
Research and Teaching: Animal studies; nature and nation; political theory and the environment; environmental justice; human-animal relations; environmental ethics; environmental politics; animal studies
Rutherford Website
Office: ESC B302 Email: srutherford @ trentu.ca
Mark Skinner
Professor
Provost & Vice President Academic (Interim)
BA (Laurier); MA (Guelph); PhD (Queen's)
Research and Teaching: Human geography; Health, rural and social geography; qualitative methods and community-based research; rural aging and rural gerontology; rural community sustainability
Rural Aging Research Program
Office: ESC B315 Email: markskinner @ trentu.ca
Andrew Tanentzap
Professor
Canada Research Chair in Climate Change and Northern Ecosystems
BSc, MSc (York); PhD (Cambridge)
Research and Teaching: Solutions to protect biodiversity, drinking water, and carbon sequestration, with a specific focus on land use and climate warming and the health of freshwaters; environmental change and species evolution
Ecosystems and Global Change Group
Office: ESC B308 Email: atanentzap @ trentu.ca
Karen Thompson
Associate Professor
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Program Coordinator
BSc (Western Ontario); PhD (Guelph)
Research and Teaching: Role of soil microbial communities in ecosystem functioning, including SOM stability and GHG fluxes; functional resilience and recovery of soil microbial C- and N-cycling communities to agricultural management, industrial disturbance, climate change, and land use change
Agricultural Soil Health (ASH) Lab
Office: ESC B301 Email: karenthompson @ trentu.ca
Autumn Watkinson
Assistant Professor
Ecological Restoration Program Coordinator
BSc (Ottawa); MSc (Laurentian); PhD (Alberta)
Research and Teaching: Restoration ecology; land reclamation; plant and soil recovery post-disturbance; novel approaches to facilitate revegetation; development of Anthroposols; habitat restoration for species at risk; prairie ecosystems; boreal ecosystems
Watkinson Lab
Office: ESC A118 Email: autumnwatkinson @ trentu.ca
Shaun Watmough
Professor
Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program Director
Environmental and Resource Science/Studies Program Coordinator
BSc (Liverpool Polytechnic); PhD (Liverpool John Moores)
Research and Teaching: Ecosystems response to environmental stress; impacts of climate change and nutrient depletion on forest and lake ecosystems
Watmough Research Gate
Office: ESC A133 Email: swatmough @ trentu.ca
Susan Wurtele
Professor
BSc (Trent); PhD (Queen's)
Research and Teaching: Feminist and cultural geography; participatory citizenship; human geography; urban environments; feminist geographies
Wurtele Google Scholar
Office: ESC B306 Email: swurtele @ trentu.ca
