Office: EV2-2034
simon.courtenay@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567, ext. 45796
Simon is a Professor and Director of the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability (SERS) at the University of Waterloo. He is also a Fellow of the Canadian Rivers Institute and a member of the UWaterloo Water Institute and the Ocean Canada Partnership.
Supervised by Simon Courtenay
Project: Regional aquatic environmental assessment.
Co-supervised by Rob Moir and Simon Courtenay
University of New Brunswick – Saint John (UNBSJ)
Project: Connecting Environmental Stewardship/Sustainability and Outdoor Recreation in Local Communities
Supervised by Heidi Swanson and Simon Courtenay
Project: Cumulative effects monitoring in Canada.
Supervised with Mike van den Heuvel
University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI)
Project: Cumulative effects and assessment of agricultural nutrients and pesticides on coastal Gammarus spp. (Amphipoda: Gammaridae) and brackish faunal assemblages.
Supervised by Heather Hunt and Simon Courtenay
University of New Brunswick - Saint John (UNBSJ)
Project: Caged blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) as a monitoring tool for the health of the water column in Saint John Harbour, New Brunswick.
Supervised by Simon Courtenay
Project: Evaluating nekton structure and use as an indicator of trophic "health" on the east coast of Canada using historical data from the Community Aquatics Monitoring Program (CAMP).
Supervised by Simon Courtenay
Project: Impact of Urban Development on Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Urban Rivers and Streams.
Supervised by Mike van den Heuvel and Simon Courtenay
Project: Potential of Environmental DNA to monitor fish assemblages in estuaries of Prince Edward Island.
Supervised by Mike van den Heuvel and Simon Courtenay
University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI)
Project: Internal nutrient loading in a PEI estuary impacted by agriculture.
Co-supervised by Claire Goodwin (Huntsman Marine Science Centre) and Simon Courtenay
Project: The Macro Problem with Microplastics in Atlantic Canada: microplastic ingestion by zooplankton in Saint John Harbour. I am interested in investigating the health impacts of fish and benthic macroinvertebrate communities as a result of endocrine disrupting substances introduced to waterways by anthropogenic means.
Co-supervised by Maria Strack and Simon Courtenay
Project: Peatland Methane Flux Response to Light and Dark Conditions. My research interests are mainly focused on environmental assessments, sustainability of built environments and the carbon cycle.
Co-supervised by Nat Bergbusch and Simon Courtenay
Project: Analysis of monitoring tools in aquatic assessment.
Co-Supervised by Mark Saunders Simon Courtenay
Project: Comparison Between Environmental DNA Metabarcoding and Beach Seining Sampling Methods to Characterize Fish Assemblages in Prince Edward Island Estuaries. Assessment of biodiversity using bioinformatics.