100+ faculty members from across multiple institutions are involved in research projects and programs that are accelerating climate action around the world.
Richard Petrone research focuses are ecohydrology, hydrometeorology, climatology, micrometeorology, climate change, biogeochemistry, greenhouse gases, reclamation, landuse change, and forest hydrology.
Paul Parker studies renewable energy policy, sustainability, residential retrofits and carbon migration, green economy and local economic development.
Maren Oelbermann's research interests include climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, carbon sequestration and ecosystem nitrogen dynamics; the impact of climate change on plant and soil ecosystems; permaculture, biochar, biomass plantations; restoration of marginal lands; and stable isotope techniques, modeling.
Jozef Nissimov's research interests include virus ecology, comparative genomics of aquatic viruses, host-virus infection dynamics, microalgal biology and physiology, biological oceanography, effects of environmental change on aquatic viruses, algal-virus interactions and co-evolution, costs and mechanisms of virus resistance in microalgae, and development of new host-virus model systems.
Kirsten Müller's research interests are freshwater and marine algae, phylogeny, taxonomy, systematics, biogeography, invasive species, bloom forming algae, and evolution.
Linda Mortsch's focuses are the impacts of climate change on water resources and wetlands in Canada, climate change scenario development, and "effective" communication of climate change information.
Plinio Morita studies population-level surveillance using IoT data, mHealth and wearable technology design, ubiquitous sensors for smart homes, usage data and health data analytics, precision medicine, and technology for aging.
Carrie Mitchell's research interests include climate change and cities, gendered effects of urban services provision, and resilience theory and its application in urban planning.
Brian Mills' areas of research are transportation, road safety, construction, weather-related injury risk, and social and economic valuation of meteorological products and services.
Julie Messier studies plant functional ecology, phenotypic variation and integration.