Contacts

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​Management and governance of aquatic systems (coastal-marine and freshwater), human dimensions of environmental change, social-ecological systems, resilience

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​Medieval history, social history, criminal history, gender history, environmental history

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Adapting to the health impacts of climate change, climate smart health systems, climate change impacts on health, climate change and health risk communications, and climate change and health vulnerability assessment

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International trade; economics of innovation; multinational corporations; boundaries of the firm; institutions; green patents; carbon pricing systems (tax, cap and trade)

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The influence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), trauma, and socioeconomic status on human development; the development, evaluation, and implementation of evidence-based interventions for children and whole families who are struggling with mental health and developmental challenges, particularly in settings of trauma and adversity; migrant and refugee mental health. 

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Sustainability transitions, climate change governance, mitigation and adaptation in cities, sustainability entrepreneurship within small businesses, participatory scenario development

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Political economy, comparative politics, Canadian public policy, oil and gas, fracking

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Community sustainable development strategies; corporate social and environment​al responsibility; campus environmental management; collaborative strategic management; cross-sector partnerships; youth-led social entrepreneurship

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Computer vision, digital image processing, and pattern recognition

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The role of procedural obligations in governance structures addressing transboundary and global commons environmental issues, the intersection of international and domestic environmental policy, climate and geoengineering governance and environmental impact assessment

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​Environmental security, climate change, geopolitics, global security, political economy

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​Large-scale scientific computing, multilevel numerical linear algebra methods, numerical methods for PDEs, novel platforms for scientific computing including GPUs and clouds, computational fluid dynamics

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Land use change, agent based models, wetland vegetation models, climate change impacts on water resources, enterprise GIS, geodatabase design

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The state, variability, and change in the cryosphere, including the role in the climate system

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Life cycle assessment, agriculture and ecosystems, bioenergy and bioeconomy, greenhouse gases, renewable energy systems

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Environmental and resource management in developing countries, hazard mitigation and disaster risk reduction, climate change/hazards connections, institutional capacity building

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​Values, motives, and intentions of private land stewardship and its role in biodiversity conservation; socio-economic dynamics as drivers of cascading ecological effects across trophic levels in coupled human-natural systems, climate change effects on the winter ecology of temperate and boreal forests; nature and applications of scientific and non-scientific knowledge in natural resource management and planning; composition, structure and dynamics of forests and grasslands with special interest in disturbance dynamics, succession, alternate stable states, and cross-scale spatial pattern; behaviour and population dynamics of large herbivores in forests and grasslands

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Arctic hydro-climatology, lake/cryosphere-atmosphere interactions, remote sensing, and numerical modeling

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Environment and health, the global environment, urban social geography, and philosophy and method in the social sciences

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Water treatment, wildfire, water quality, pathogens, climate change, filtration, land disturbance, environmental & water resources, water and land management, nanoparticle removal during drinking water and wastewater treatment, quantitative microbial risk assessment, water prootection, smart infrastructure

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Amphibious architecture, sustainable flood mitigation, climate change adaptation, flood-resilient housing for indigenous populations and vulnerable low-income communities, historic structures and traditional cultures, community resilience and resilience metrics, wind effects on buildings, hurricane damage prevention, adaptive flood risk reduction, disaster management and relief

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Identifying the additive value of sustainable development on an industry-specific basis, establishing a practical, meaningful and cost-effective climate change adaptation program for Canada

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​Climate modelling, dynamics and change, extratropical teleconnections and seasonal-to-decadal climate variability, land-ocean-atmosphere interaction, snow albedo feedback

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​Aquatic ecology, paleolimnology and multivariate statistics to assess effects of multiple stressors (nutrients, acidification, climate change, river regulation, species invasions) on lakes, wetlands and reservoirs

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​Public administration, public policy, local government, federalism and multilevel governance, emergency management, climate change adaptation

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Human-environment interactions, social inequities and health, global health governance, maternal and child health

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​The Geoweb, open data, mobile technology, public participation GIS, community-based geomatics, geospatial technology in planning and government

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Complex threats to global security; causes of violent conflict; climate change, energy science, and public policy; sources of societal innovation; modelling of ideological change

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Remote sensing, snow hydrology, snow climatology, geospatial modelling of snow, citizen science

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Community climate change adaptation, urban design and place making, international development and comparative planning, participatory planning, historic preservation and cultural resource management, museum studies

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Nanomaterials for alternative energy and catalysis, CO2 electroreduction, electroorganic CO2 fixation, technoeconomic and environmental assessment for emerging CO2 conversion technologies

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Nonlinear waves, internal gravity waves and surface water waves, hydrodynamic instabilities and mixing, physical oceanography and limnology, coupling of hydrodynamic and bio-geochemical processes in lakes, computational fluid dynamics

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Rethinking the conservation of biodiversity in the context of global change; social dimensions of biodiversity conservation; metaphor, environmental science and society

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Climate change and variability in polar areas; atmosphere-cryosphere feedback processes; role of citizen science and social media in polar information discovery, management and preservation

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Complex multi-phase flows and transport phenomena, large scale geological disposal of CO2 for climate change mitigation (numerical simulations, risk assessments, economics)

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​Multispectral and SAR remote sensing, laser scanning (or LiDAR), object-based image analysis, 3D urban modeling and spatial analysis, terrain analysis in hydrogeography, geomatics solutions to disaster management

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​Biogeochemistry, hydrology, wetland science, agricultural water quality, agricultural tile drainage, nutrients

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​Human dimensions of environmental change, with particular attention to the relationship between environment and human migration; rural adaptation to climatic variability and change; fostering citizen participation in environmental science

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Coastal governance, landscape architecture, land use planning, coastal climate change impacts, climate change adaptation

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​Plant functional ecology; phenotypic variation and integration.

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Transportation, road safety, construction, weather-related injury risk, social and economic valuation of meteorological products and services

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Climate change and cities, gendered effects of urban services provision, resilience theory and its application in urban planning

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Energy systems, technological change, climate policy, solar and carbon geoengineering technologies, energy transitions

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Impacts of climate change on water resources and wetlands in Canada, climate change scenario development, and "effective" communication of climate change information

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Climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, carbon sequestration and ecosystem nitrogen dynamics; impact of climate change on plant and soil ecosystems; permaculture, biochar, biomass plantations; restoration of marginal lands; stable isotope techniques, modeling

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Renewable energy policy, sustainability; residential retrofits and carbon migration; green economy and local economic development

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Ecohydrology, hydrometeorology, climatology, micrometeorology, climate change, biogeochemistry, greenhouse gases, reclamation, landuse change, forest hydrology

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Geophysical fluid dynamics, stochastic differential equations, biological fluid dynamics, computational mathematics

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Peatland/wetland hydrology, peatland construction and restoration

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Land-use and land-cover change, land-management and the carbon cycle, land grabs, land policy, agent-based modelling and geographical information systems

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Managing energy use effectively and sustainably, Ontario residential energy consumption, renewable electricity in Canada and the U.S., solar energy

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International trade, environmental and natural resource economics, international development, political economy

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Air pollution, greenhouse gases, and trade; air quality impacts and benefits under energy and climate policy; health impacts of air pollution under future climate; environmental inequality; pollution and policy impacts by income group; integrated economic, health impact, and air quality modeling

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Watershed biogeochemistry, the impact of nutrients and climate change on aquatic ecosystems

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Cross-disciplinary knowledge integration and the design of scenarios for the human dimensions of large-scale environmental change; long-term decision-making such as forecasting and discontinuities; the influence of occupational, interpersonal, and cultural conflicts on climate change attitudes

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Urban and regional planning, strategic planning, policy and program evaluation, local economic development, public administration

Retired from academia; professionally active as Founding Principal of S&A Research, an atmospheric science consulting practice.

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​Stratified fluid dynamics in lakes and the coastal oceans, the climate dynamics, wave dynamics in porous media

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Land use change and its impact on surface water quality in natural and built environments

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​Political ecology of natural resources governance and management, with a particular focus on water in Africa

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Main areas of research are in environmental communication, energy justice, critical theory, and cultural studies

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​Innovative strategies designed to reduce the economic impacts of extreme weather and climate change within the financial sector

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Environmental and water resources systems analysis; the development and testing of heuristic algorithms for efficient single- and multiple-objective optimization; uncertainty estimation; risk-based or probabilistic assessment of environmental and water resources systems

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Remote sensing (satellite imagery) and field data to observe variability in glaciers and glacier motion; the application of SAR remote sensing datasets to observe ocean processes (currents, sea ice) and monitor human activities (detection of oil spills); data management and long-term data preservation; historical climate data rescue projects.

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​Turbulence in rotating stratified fluids, vortices in stratified fluids, mesoscale atmospheric dynamics, tropical convection

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Adaptation to climate change, community-based vulnerability assessment

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Environmental and sustainable finance with a focus on sustainable credit risk management, socially responsible investment, social banking and the link between sustainability and financial performance of enterprises

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Environmental philosophy, the ethics of climate change, political philosophy

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Climate change in Canada's north, present and past hydrology of the Mackenzie Basin Deltas, paleo-environmental research, environmental impacts on the hydrology of lakes

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Climate change policy, emissions forecasting, impacts of climate change adaptations on freight, regulatory policy, urban freight planning, freight and land use (accessibility), transportation demand management and deregulation of transportation provision

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Sustainable materials management, life-cycle assessment (LCA) and enterprise carbon management

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Monitoring and mapping of Arctic sea ice and marine oil spills; Machine learning, statistical and computational methods for big remote sensing data interpretation; Hyperspectral imaging; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging; Environmental remote sensing