Julian Aherne
Associate Professor
BA, Graduate Diploma (Trinity College Dublin); MApplSc, PhD (University College Dublin)
Research and Teaching: 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
Aherne Google Scholar
Office: ESC B303 Email: jaherne @ trentu.ca
David Beresford
Associate Professor
Cross-appointed with Biology
BSc (Trent); BEd (Queen's); PhD (Trent)
Research and Teaching: 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
Office: LHS D217 Email: davidberesford @ trentu.ca
Kira Borden
Assistant Professor
BSc (Queen's); MSc, PhD (Toronto)
Research and Teaching: 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, nutrient cycling and sustainable agriculture
kiraborden.com
Office: ESC A115 Email: kiraborden @ trentu.ca
Mary-Claire Buell
Assistant Professor
Cross-appointed with Forensic Science
BSc (Guelph); MA, PhD (Trent)
Research and Teaching: Investigating the source, fate, transport, and impacts of legacy and contemporary contaminants; the connections between contaminants and environmental justice through transdisciplinary approaches bringing together environmental toxicology, chemistry, and community knowledges
TRACE Lab
Office: ESC C127 Email: maryclairebuell @ trentu.ca
Olivia Carpino
Assistant Professor, LTA
BSc, MSc (Guelph); PhD (Laurier)
Research and Teaching: Climate change in northern environments; ecohydrological impacts of permafrost thaw; geomatics applications in monitoring long term changes to landcover and permafrost; climate science, hydrology, geomorphic processes, and GIS
Carpino LinkedIn
Office: ESC A132 Email: oliviacarpino @ trentu.ca
Huy Dang
Associate Professor
Cross-appointed with Chemistry
BSc, MSc, PhD (Toulon)
Research and Teaching: 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
Office: CSB F114 Email: huydang @ trentu.ca
On sabbatical July 1, 2024 – January 1, 2025
Tapan Dhar
Assistant Professor
BArch (Khulna); MUrban Design (Hong Kong); PhD (Waterloo)
Research and Teaching: Human dimensions of climate change (adaptation); urban resilience; risk perception; environmental planning and management; community planning; urban design; and qualitative research
Dhar Google Scholar
Office: ESC B307 Email: tapandhar @ trentu.ca
Catherine Eimers
Professor
Associate Director, Trent School of the Environment
Water Sciences Program Coordinator
BSc (Toronto); MSc (Trent); PhD (Waterloo)
Research and Teaching: Impacts of climate and land use change on soil and water resources; physical geography, soil science, applied geoscience, and climate change.
Eimers Research Gate
Office: ESC A142 Email: ceimers @ trentu.ca
Kaitlyn Fleming
Assistant Professor, LTA
BScH (Trent); MSc (Toronto); PhD (Trent)
Research and Teaching: 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
Fleming ResearchGate
Office: ESC A148 Email: kaitlynfleming @ trentu.ca
Chris Furgal
Associate Professor
Cross-appointed with Indigenous Studies
Indigenous Environmental Sciences Studies Program Coordinator
BSc, MSc (Western Ontario); PhD (Waterloo)
Research and Teaching: Indigenous knowledge and science for environmental health research; impacts of food security and climate change on health of northern Indigenous communities
Furgal Google Scholar
Office: GSC 303 Email: chrisfurgal @ trentu.ca
Brendan Hickie
Associate Professor
BScAgr (Guelph); MSc, PhD (Waterloo)
Research and Teaching: 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; natural science statistics, environmental toxicology and pollution ecology
Hickie ResearchGate
Office: ESC A102 Email: bhickie @ trentu.ca
On sabbatical July 1, 2024-January 1, 2025
Stephen Hill
Associate Professor
Director, Trent School of the Environment
BA, BSc (Queen's); PhD (Calgary); PEng
Research and Teaching: Energy science, technology and policy; social responses to renewable energy technology; climate change policy and management; environmental and organizational risk management and policy
Hill Google Scholar
Office: ESC B202.1 Email: stephenhill @ trentu.ca
Holger Hintelmann
Professor
Cross-appointed with Chemistry
Interim VP of Research and Innovation
BSc, PhD (Hamburg)
Research and Teaching: Factors that control the (bio)availability of metals to develop descriptive models predicting their fate in the environment
Hintelmann Google Scholar
Office: CSB F113 Email: hhintelmann @ trentu.ca
Khondokar Kabir
Assistant Professor, LTA
BSc Ag, MSc Ag Ext Edu (Bangladesh Agricultural University); PhD (Hohenheim)
Research and Teaching: Sustainable agriculture and food systems; agriculture, communication, and digital technologies, focusing on policy, information sharing, and farmer decision-making amid climate change and technological disruptions; environment and development; community engagement; rural development; and research methodology
Kabir ResearchGate
Office: ESC A115 Email: khondokarkabir @ trentu.ca
Jean-François Koprivnjak
Assistant Professor
Director, Instrumental Chemical Analysis Graduate Program (MICA)
BSc, MSc (McGill); PhD (Georgia Tech)
Research and Teaching: Dissolved freshwater organic matter (DOM), organic pollutants and the effect of climate change on their interactions; aquatic geochemistry; low molecular weight stable isotope geochemistry; CO2 gas from boreal lakes; climate change; water policy; environmental chemistry
Koprivnjak Google Scholar
Office: ESC A135 Email: jkoprivnjak @ trentu.ca
Cheryl McKenna Neuman
Professor
Coordinator, Geography Program
BSc (Queen's); MSc (Guelph); PhD (Queen's)
Research and Teaching: Process geomorphology; mechanics of sediment transport; experimental fluid dynamics; dust emission and air quality; wind tunnel simulation
Trent Environmental Wind Tunnel Research Group
Office: ESC A144 Email: cmckneuman @ trentu.ca
Magali Nehemy
Assistant Professor
BSc (São Paulo State UNESP); MSc, PhD (Saskatchewan)
Research and Teaching: 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
Nehemy webpage
Office: ESC C125 Email: mnehemy @ trentu.ca
Heather Nicol
Professor
Program Coordinator, Circumpolar Studies Diploma
Director, School for the Study of Canada
BA (Toronto); MES (York); PhD (Queen's)
Research and Teaching: Political geography and sovereignty of the circumpolar North, specifically North American Arctic and Canada-US cross-border relations; geopolitical narratives; power mapping
Nicol Google Scholar
Office: TCKH 205 Email: heathernicol @ trentu.ca
Neil Osborne
Assistant Professor (LTA)
BSc (Trent); MA (Ohio); PhD (York)
Research and Teaching: Econarratology; empirical ecocritism; environmental communication; climate change communication; transmedia storytelling; photojournalism and photography; environmental and climate change communication; environment and politics; environmental science and studies; and human geography
neileverosborne.com
Office: ESC A107 Email: neilosborne @ trentu.ca
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: Low carbon research methods; digital culture; infrastructure, science and technology studies; Information and Communication Technology and energy
annepasek.com
Office: TCSH 204 Email: annepasek @ trentu.ca
Roger Picton
Associate Professor
BA (Trent); MA (Carleton); PhD (Toronto)
Research and Teaching: Fieldwork and experiential learning; planning and urban waterfronts; brewpubs and post-industrial redevelopment; critical and practical perspectives on urban life; human geography: urban geography, urban planning, urban environments, and the geography of beer
Picton Research Gate
Office: ESC A120 Email: rogerpicton @ trentu.ca
Raul Ponce-Hernandez
Associate Professor
BEng (National School of Agriculture Mexico); (Autonoma Chapingo); PhD (Oxford)
Research and Teaching: 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; soil management and integrated watershed management
Ponce-Hernandez Research Gate
Office: ESC B304 Email: rponce @ trentu.ca
Ian Power
Associate Professor
Environmental Geoscience Program Coordinator
Canada Research Chair in Environmental Geoscience
BSc, PhD (Western Ontario); PGeo (ON)
Research and Teaching: Geochemical and mineralogical processes, environmental challenges; carbon dioxide removal: an emerging field in geosciences
Power Geo Lab
Office: CSB E114 Email: ianpower @ trentu.ca
Stephanie Rutherford
Associate Professor
Master in Sustainability Studies Program Director
BA (Toronto); MSc (Guelph); PhD (York)
Research and Teaching: Animal studies; nature and nation; political theory and the environment; environmental justice; human-animal relations; environmental ethics; environmental politics; animal studies
Rutherford Website
Office: ESC B302 Email: srutherford @ trentu.ca
Mark Skinner
Professor
Dean, Humanities and Social Sciences
BA (Laurier); MA (Guelph); PhD (Queen's)
Research and Teaching: Health, rural and social geography; qualitative methods and community-based research; rural aging and rural gerontology; aging rural communities; human geography; qualitative methods; rural community sustainability; community-based research
Skinner Google Scholar
Office: ESC B315 Email: markskinner @ trentu.ca
Andrew Tanentzap
Professor
Canada Research Chair in Climate Change and Northern Ecosystems
BSc, MSc (York); PhD (Cambridge)
Research and Teaching: Solutions to protect biodiversity, drinking water, and carbon sequestration, with a specific focus on land use and climate warming and the health of freshwaters; environmental change and species evolution
Ecosystems and Global Change Group
Office: ESC B308 Email: atanentzap @ trentu.ca
Karen Thompson
Associate Professor
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Program Coordinator
BSc (Western Ontario); PhD (Guelph)
Research and Teaching: Role of soil microbial communities in ecosystem functioning, including SOM stability and GHG fluxes; 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
Office: ESC B301 Email: karenthompson @ trentu.ca
Autumn Watkinson
Assistant Professor
Ecological Restoration Program Coordinator
BSc (Ottawa); MSc (Laurentian); PhD (Alberta)
Research and Teaching: 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
Watkinson Lab
Office: ESC A118 Email: autumnwatkinson @ trentu.ca
Shaun Watmough
Professor
Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program Director
Environmental and Resource Science/Studies Program Coordinator
BSc (Liverpool Polytechnic); PhD (Liverpool John Moores)
Research and Teaching: Ecosystems response to environmental stress; impacts of climate change and nutrient depletion on forest and lake ecosystems
Watmough Research Gate
Office: ESC A133 Email: swatmough @ trentu.ca
Susan Wurtele
Professor
BSc (Trent); PhD (Queen's)
Research and Teaching: Feminist and cultural geography; participatory citizenship; human geography; urban environments; feminist geographies
Wurtele Google Scholar
Office: ESC B306 Email: swurtele @ trentu.ca
