Master of Science in Environmental Science Faculty
The faculty listed below are eligible to supervise or co-supervise graduate students in the Master of Science program in Environmental Science. They may be contacted directly to discuss potential opportunities for studying under their supervision.
Dr. Lyn Baldwin - Department of Biological Sciences: plant ecology, forest, riparian communities, bryophytes, human disturbance, fragmentation.
Dr. Rick Brewster - Department of Mathematics & Statistics: discrete mathematics, theoretical computing science; computational complexity; graph theory; polynomial time algorithms and good characterizations
Dr. Darryl Carlyle-Moses - Department of Geography and Environmental Studies: hydrology, microclimatology, urban biophysical environments
Dr. Naowarat Cheeptham -- Department of Biological Sciences: microbial diversity in caves (volcanic and limestone origins) and other extreme habitats, actinomycetes, fermentation, bioactive compounds, bioactive compounds, drug discovery and antibiotic resistance surveillance
Dr. John Church - Department of Natural Resource Sciences: sustainability of cattle industry, range management, meat production, beef production
Dr. Hasnat Dewan - Department of Economics: sustainable development, environmental and natural resource economics, banking crises, human development
Dr. Tom Dickinson - Department of Biological Sciences (currently Dean of Science): ornithology, conservation biology
Dr. Kingsley Donkor - Department of Chermistry : Environmental and Analytical chemistry, chemometric techniques in environmental and agricultural research, speciation of air particulates and health effects
Dr. Lauchlan Fraser - Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Natural Resource Sciences: Plant ecology, grasslands, wetlands, climate change, food web theory, plant diversity, carbon sequestration, grassland restoration, agroforestry [email: lfraser@tru.ca]
Dr. Nancy Flood - Department of Biological Sciences: ornithology, ecology and evolution of orioles
Dr. Wendy Gardner - Department of Natural Resource Sciences: grassland ecology and management, range management, ungulates, reclamation
Dr. Louis Gosselin - Department of Biological Sciences: marine invertebrate ecology: early life history, population regulation, community structure, mortality factors, invasive species, species at risk, benthic species, intertidal, subtidal, dispersal
Dr. Brian Heise - Department of Natural Resource Sciences: aquatic ecosystems, stream ecology, ichthyology, land-use practices, stream recovery, aquatic entomology
Dr. Rob Hood - Department of Tourism Management: land use and tourism, rural tourism development
Dr. Terry Kading - Department of Philosophy, History & Politics: trade and development, social planning in small cities, Latin America
Dr. Mila Kwiatkowska - Department of Computing Science: medical decision support systems, database systems and data mining, biomedical informatics
Dr. Karl Larsen - Department of Natural Resource Sciences: wildlife conservation and management, mammalogy, herpetology, dispersal theory, movement ecology and habitat use
Dr. Nelaine Mor-Diez - Department of Chemistry: computational chemistry, atmospheric chemistry, kinetic studies, thermodynamic studies, excited states.
Dr. Mohammad Mahbobi - Department of Economics: quantitative methods in business, management, and economics, international trade and trade policy, applied economics, crude oil market
Dr. Donald Noakes - Department of Mathematics & Statistics: modelling and simulation, fisheries and aquaculture, water resouces, climate change, optimization, decision science.
Dr. Matthew Reudink - Department of Biological Sciences: ornithology, animal ecology, evolution of plumage in birds, animal behaviour
Dr. Shane Rollans - Department of Mathematics & Statistics: applied statistical analysis, stochastic optimization, statistical education
Dr. Cindy Ross Friedman - Department of Biological Sciences: plant anatomy, seed development, reproductive development of mistletoe
Dr. Mohamed Tawhid - Department of Mathematics & Statistics: stochastic optimization, nonlinear optimization, neural network, operations research, modelling and computations.
Dr. Peter Tsigaris - Department of Economics: environmental economics, economics of clean technologies, of climate change, environmental policy and regulation, environmental management, environmental experiments for education, valuation of envionmental goods and services.
Dr. Jon Van Hamme - Department of Biological Sciences: environmental microbiology, biodegradation, bioremediation, pollutants, microbiology, biocatalyst.
Dr. Elaine Waddington Lamont - Department of Psychology, neuroscience, circadian rhythms, neuroanatomy and physiology of salmon, feeding, sleep, shift work, jet lag. ewaddingtonlamont@tru.ca
Dr. Roger Yu - Department of Mathematics & Statistics: graph theory and discrete optimization, mathematics
