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TRENTU.CA / School of the Environment / TSE Faculty

TSE Faculty

Award-winning professors and globally-recognized leaders

photo of Julian Ahern

Julian Aherne

Associate Professor, ERS

BA, Graduate Diploma (Trinity College Dublin); MApplSc, PhD (University College Dublin)

Research and Teaching Interests

Using models to improve our understanding of pollutants in the environment; in-lab analysis of biosphere components and using the data to create equations as the basis for computer models

  • Ecosystems Research Group Website
  • Muskoka WaterWeb Research Team 
  • Julian Aherne on Google Scholar

Office: ESC B303 Phone: 705-748-1011 x7887 Email: jaherne@trentu.ca


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David Beresford​

Associate Professor, ERS, SAFS

Cross-appointed with Biology

BSc (Trent); BEd (Queen's); PhD (Trent)

Inaugural Decanal Award for Teaching Excellence in the Sciences Recipient (2022)

Research and Teaching Interests

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 Website
  • David Beresford on Google Scholar

Office: LHS D217 Phone:705-748-1011 x7540 Email: davidberesford@trentu.ca


Kira Borden

Assistant Professor, SAFS

BSc (Queen's); MSc, PhD (Toronto)

Research and Teaching Interests

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. Teaches courses on nutrient cycling and sustainable agriculture.

  • Kira Borden on Google Scholar

Office: ESC A114 Phone: 705-748-1011 x7510 Email: kiraborden@trentu.ca


smiling man with brown hair and glasses with water in the backgroundEvan Bowness

Assistant Professor, SAFS

BA, MA (Manitoba), PhD (British Columbia)

Research and Teaching Interests

Critical and community-engaged environmental social scientist studying the prospects for more equitable sustainability transitions in the food system and beyond, primarily in Canada and Brazil; just transitions in food systems; food sovereignty and agroecology; industrial capitalism in settler colonial contexts

  • EvanBowness.ca

Interested in joining the Towards Equity in Sustainability Transitions (“Test”) Lab? Prospective graduate students, please send me a note with your interests and CV.

Office location: ESB A 115 / Email: evanbowness@trentu.ca


Doctor Huy Dang smiling in a chemistry labD. Huy Dang 

​Assistant Professor

Environmental Chemistry Program Coordinator

Cross-appointed with Chemistry

BSc, MSc, PhD (Toulon) 

Research and Teaching Interests

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
  • D. Huy Dang on Google Scholar
  • Research Gate Profile

Office: CSB E120 Phone: 705-748-1011 x6364 Email: huydang@trentu.ca


photo of Prof Catherine EimersCatherine Eimers

Professor

Associate TSE Director, 2022-

BSc (Toronto); MSc (Trent); PhD (Waterloo)

Research and Teaching Interests

Impacts of climate and land use change on soil and water resources. Teaches a variety of undergraduate courses in Physical Geography, including Water Resources, Soil Science, Applied Geoscience, and Climate Change: the Physical Basis

  • Catherine Eimers on Google Scholar
  • Catherine Eimers Research Gate Profile

Office: ESC A142 Phone: 705-748-1011 x7225 Email: ceimers@trentu.ca


Kaitlyn Fleming

Assistant Professor, LTA

BScH (Trent), MSc (Toronto), PhD (Trent)

Research and Teaching Interests

Broadly interested in northern ecosystems and how the environment and humans shape the distribution of animals, with a specific interest in the effects of anthropogenic disturbance. Studied ground beetles in Ontario’s Far North as part of the Far North Biodiversity Project with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry

  • Kaitlyn Fleming ResearchGate

Email: kaitlynfleming@trentu.ca


photo of Prof Chris FurgalChris Furgal

Associate Professor

ERS; IESS Program Coordinator

Cross-appointed with Indigenous Studies

BSc, MSc (Western Ontario); PhD (Waterloo)

Research and Teaching Interests

Environmental health risk assessment, management and communication; Indigenous environmental health with focus on Arctic populations; Indigenous knowledge and science for environment and health research; food security and climate change and the health of northern Indigenous communities

  • Chris Furgal on Google Scholar

Office: GSC 303 Phone: 705-748-1011 x7953 Email: chrisfurgal@trentu.ca


Photo of Prof Brendan HickieBrendan Hickie

Assistant Professor, ERS

Program Coordinator for BESS and ERS

​BScAgr (Guelph); MSc, PhD (Waterloo)

Research and Teaching Interests

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. Teaches in a range of courses including Natural Science Statistics, Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Ecology

  • Brendan Hickie on Google Scholar

Office: ESC A128 Phone: 705-748-1011 x7623 Email: bhickie@trentu.ca


Stephen Hill

Associate Professor

Director, Trent School of the Environment 2022-

BA, BSc (Queen's); PhD, PEng (Calgary) 

Research and Teaching Interests

Energy science, technology and policy; social responses to renewable energy technology; climate change policy and management; environmental risk management and policy, particularly within organizations

  • Stephen Hill on Google Scholar

Office: ESC B202.1 Phone: 705-748-1011 ext. 7368 Email: stephenhill@trentu.ca


photo of Prof Holger HintelmannHolger Hintelmann

Professor, ERS

Cross-appointed with Chemistry

Dean of Arts & Science - Science

BSc, PhD (Hamburg)

Research and Teaching Interests

Factors that control the (bio)availability of metals to develop descriptive models predicting their fate in the environment. Instructs several Chemistry and ERS-Chemistry joint courses

  • Chemistry Department Profile 
  • Holger Hintelmann Trent Water Quality Centre Profile
  • Holger Hintelmann on Google Scholar

​Office: CSB F113 Phone: 705-748-1011 x6143 Email: hhintelmann@trentu.ca


Jean francois professor ​Jean-François Koprivnjak

​Assistant Professor, ERS

Coordinator, WASC Program

Director, Instrumental Chemical Analysis Graduate Program (MICA)

BSc, MSc (McGill); PhD (Georgia Tech)

Research and Teaching Interests

Interactions of dissolved organic matter (DOM) with organic pollutants and the effect of climatic change on these interactions; aquatic geochemistry; low molecular weight stable isotope geochemistry; modeling of freshwater DOM concentrations; CO2 gas from boreal lakes. Teaches in a range of courses in the ERS program, including climatic change, water policy, and environmental chemistry

  • Jean-François Koprivnjak on Google Scholar

Office: ESC A135 Phone: 705-748-1011 x7512 Email: jkoprivnjak@trentu.ca


photo of Prof Cheryl McKenna NeumanCheryl McKenna Neuman

Professor, Env. Geoscience

Geography Program Coordinator

BSc (Queen's); MSc (Guelph); PhD (Queen's)

Research and Teaching Interests

Process geomorphology; mechanics of sediment transport; experimental fluid dynamics; dust emission and air quality; wind tunnel simulation. Teaches Process Geomorphology, River Environments and Processes, Sedimentary Processes, and Geosystems at the undergraduate level and the Mechanics of Sediment Transport at the graduate level. A ‘hands-on’ approach to learning is emphasized in many of these courses incorporating both lab and field work

  • Trent Environmental Wind Tunnel Research Group website
  • Cheryl McKenna Neuman on Google Scholar
  • Cheryl McKenna Neuman Research Gate Profile

​Office: ESC A144 Phone: 705-748-1011 x7307 Email: cmckneuman@trentu.ca


Magali Nehemy

Assistant Professor, ERS

BSc (São Paulo State UNESP); MSc, PhD (Saskatchewan)

Research and Teaching Interests

How forests exploit subsurface water storage; the source and age of transpiration; hydraulic connectivity between transpiration source water and streamflow; hillslope hydrology; isotope hydrology; the impact of land use and climate change on forests and water resources. Teaches Hydrology and Isotopes Tracers in Catchment Hydrology

  • Magali Nehemy on Google Scholar
  • Magali Nehemy Research Gate Profile
  • Nehemy’s webpage

​Office: ESC C125 Phone: 705-748-1011 Email: mnehemy@trentu.ca


photo of Prof Heather NicolHeather Nicol

Professor, Geography

Program Coordinator, Circumpolar Studies Diploma

Director, School for the Study of Canada

BA (Toronto); MES (York); PhD (Queen's)

Research and Teaching Interests

The political geography of the circumpolar North, with a specific focus on the North American Arctic and Canada-US cross-border relations, tensions, geopolitical narratives and mappings of power and sovereignty; the history of circumpolar geopolitics in relation to globalization, security, environment, and polar governance

  • Heather Nicol on Google Scholar

Office: ESC B307 Phone: 705-748-1011 x7107 Email: heathernicol@trentu.ca


white man, brown hair, blue shirt, yellow backgroundNeil Osborne

Assistant Professor (LTA)

BSc (Trent); MA (Ohio); PhD (York)

Research and Teaching Interests

Econarratology; empirical ecocritism; environmental communication; climate change communication; transmedia storytelling; photojournalism; and photography. Teaches courses in environmental and climate change communication; environment and politics; environmental science and studies; and human geography

  • www.neileverosborne.com
  • www.evermaven.com 

Email: neilosborne@trentu.ca


Anne Pasek smiling in front of a forested background

Anne Pasek

Assistant 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 Interests 

How people communicate about the social challenges and material complexities of global warming, particularly as they concern the carbon cycle; the prospects of low carbon research methods across the social sciences and humanities;  infrastructure studies; science and technology studies; ICT and energy. Teaches courses on environmental media, digital culture, and the politics of climate change

  • Anne Pasek on Google Scholar
  • annepasek.com

Email: annepasek@trentu.ca


photo of Prof Roger PictonRoger Picton

Associate Professor, Geography

BA (Trent); MA (Carleton); PhD (Toronto)

Research and Teaching Interests

Fieldwork and experiential learning; planning and urban waterfronts; brewpubs and post-industrial redevelopment; critical and practical perspectives on urban life. Teaches courses in human geography: urban geography, urban planning, urban environments, and the geography of beer

  • Roger Picton on Google Scholar
  • Roger Picton Research Gate Profile

Office: ESC A120 Phone: 705-748-1011 x7571 Email: rogerpicton@trentu.ca


photo of Prof Raul Paul HernandezRaul Ponce-Hernandez

Associate Professor, ERS, Env. Geoscience, Geography, SAFS

​BEng (National School of Agriculture Mexico); MSc (Autonoma Chapingo); PhD (Oxford)

Research and Teaching Interests

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. Teaches courses in GIS at the introductory and upper undergraduate levels, soil management and integrated watershed management

  • Raul Ponce-Hernandez on Google Scholar
  • Raul Ponce-Hernandez Research Gate Profile

Office: ESC B304 Phone: 705-748-1011 x7646 Email: rponce@trentu.ca


Professor Ian Power, wearing sun hat, smiling at cameraIan Power

Associate Professor

Environmental Geoscience Coordinator

Canada Research Chair in Environmental Geoscience

BSc, PhD (Western Ontario); PGeo (ON)

Research and Teaching Interests

Geochemical and mineralogical processes relevant to addressing environmental challenges, particularly carbon dioxide removal, an emerging field in geosciences ripe for scientific inquiry and technological advances. Teaches Field Methods in Environmental Geoscience and Earth Materials. Visit PowerGeolab.com for more information about research and teaching

  • Ian Power Research Gate Profile 
  • Environmental Geochemistry Laboratory
  • Ian Power on Google Scholar

Office: CSB E114 Laboratory: CSB F110 Phone: 705-748-1011 x6257 Email: ianpower@trentu.ca


Professor Stephanie Rutherford smiling at the camera

Stephanie Rutherford

Associate Professor, ERS, SAFS

BA (Toronto); MSc (Guelph); PhD (York)

Research and Teaching Interests

Animal studies; nature and nation; political theory and the environment; environmental justice; human-animal relations. Teaches courses in environmental ethics, environmental politics, and animal studies

  • Stephanie Rutherford's Website

Office: ESC B302 Phone: 705-748-1011 x7187 Email: srutherford@trentu.ca


Mark Skinner portraitMark Skinner

Professor, Geography

Dean of Arts and Science - Social Sciences

Canada Research Chair in Rural Aging, Health and Social Care

BA (Laurier), MA (Guelph), PhD (Queen's)

Research and Teaching Interests

Health, rural and social geography; qualitative methods and community-based research; rural aging and rural gerontology; aging rural communities. Courses in human geography, qualitative methods, rural community sustainability and community-based research

  • Mark Skinner on Google Scholar
  • Trent Rural Aging Research Program
  • Trent Centre for Aging & Society

Office: ESC B315 Phone: 705-748-1011 x6142 Email: markskinner@trentu.ca


Andrew Tanentzap

Associate Professor

Canada Research Chair in Climate Change and Northern Ecosystems

BSc, MSc (York); PhD (Cambridge)

Research and Teaching Interests

Solutions to protect biodiversity, drinking water, and carbon sequestration from environmental change, with a specific focus on how land use and climate warming alter the movement of organic matter from land into water and thus the health of freshwaters; how species evolve in response to short- and long-term environmental change

  • Andrew Tanentzap on Google Scholar
  • Ecosystems and Global Change Group

Email: atanentzap@trentu.ca


Picture of Karen Thompson, Assistant ProfessorKaren Thompson

Associate Professor, ERS

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Coordinator

BSc (Western Ontario), PhD (Guelph)

Research and Teaching Interests

Role of soil microbial communities in ecosystem functioning, including SOM stability and GHG fluxes; microbial measures as biological indicators of soil health; 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
  • Karen Thompson on ResearchGate

Office: ESB B301 Phone: 705-748-1011 x6756 Email: karenthompson@trentu.ca


Autumn Watkinson

Assistant Professor, ERS

BSc (Ottawa); MSc (Laurentian); PhD (Alberta)

Research and Teaching Interests 

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. Teaches Restoration Ecology and Reclamation & Remediation of Sites

  • autumnwatkinsonphd.com
  • Autumn Watkinson on Google Scholar

Office: ESB A118 Phone: 708-748-1011 Email: autumnwatkinson@trentu.ca


Shaun Watmough

Professor

Director of TSE 2017-2022

BSc (Liverpool Polytechnic), PhD (Liverpool John Moores)

Research and Teaching Interests

Ecosystems response to environmental stress; impacts of acid rain, climate change, nutrient depletion, forestry and metals on forest and lake ecosystems; long-term catchment scale programs; short-term laboratory isotope tracer experiments

  • Trent Water Quality Centre Profile 
  • Muskoka WaterWeb Research Team
  • Shaun Watmough on Google Scholar

Office: ESC A133 Phone: 705-748-1011 x7876 Email: swatmough@trentu.ca


photo of Prof Susan WurteleSusan Wurtele

Associate Professor, Geography

BSc (Trent), PhD (Queen's)

Research and Teaching Interests

Feminist and cultural geography; participatory citizenship. Teaches a range of courses including human geography and upper year courses on urban environments and feminist geographies. Classes are dynamic involving small group seminars and opportunities for field work and alternative assignment structures

  • Susan Wurtele on Google Scholar

Office: ESC B306 Phone: 705-748-1011 x7454 Email: swurtele@trentu.ca

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