Faculty

Investigators

Dr. Cherie Westbrook (Director)

Department of Geography and Planning, Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan

Research Interests: ecohydrology; wetland and riparian ecosystems; effects of beavers on mountain wetland hydrology; surface water/groundwater interaction; modelling the downstream hydrological and water quality impacts of wetland drainage; flood risk management

E-mail     Website      (306) 966-1818


Dr. Helen Baulch

School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan

Research Interests: water quality; aquatic ecology; global change; biogeochemical cycles; greenhouse gas emissions; eutrophication; algal blooms; climate change

E-mail     Website      (306) 966-2549    


Dr. Sean Carey

School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University

Research Interests: hydrology; biometeorology; cold regions; reclamation; landscape disturbance

E-mail     Website      (905) 525-9140 ext. 20134 


Dr. Dustin Garrick

Department of Political Science, McMaster University

Research Interests: public policy, economics, water policy

E-mail     Website      (905) 525-9140 ext. 26596


Dr. Masaki Hayashi

Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary

Research Interests: alpine hydrology; frozen soil processes; groundwater-surface water interaction; groundwater sustainability

E-mail     Website      (403) 220-2794


 

Dr. Jeffrey McDonnell

Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan

Research interests: hillslope and watershed hydrology

E-mail     Website      (306) 966-8529


Dr. Bram Noble

Department of Geography and Planning, University of Saskatchewan

Research interests: impacts of natural resource development; environmental impact assessment; cumulative effects assessment; environmental policy, land use planning and management; mineral and energy resource development

E-mail     Website      (306) 966-1899


Dr. Richard Petrone

Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo

Research interests: ecohydrology; hydrometeorology; climatology; micrometeorology; climate change; biogeochemistry; greenhouse gases; reclamation; landuse change; forest hydrology.

E-mail     Website      (519) 888-4567 ext. 39174 


Dr. John Pomeroy

Centre for Hydrology, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Saskatchewan

Research interests: physical hydrology emphasizing cold regions processes; watershed modeling; snow; forests; mountains; prairies; arctic; hydrometeorology; hydrochemistry; ecohydrology; instrumentation 

E-mail     Website      (306) 966-1426


Dr. Ronald Stewart

Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba

Research interests: extreme weather research including storms and their precipitation; droughts; storm-climate interactions.

E-mail     Website      (204) 480-1052


Dr. Howard Wheater

Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan

Research interests: hydrological processes and modelling, with applications to the management of flood risk, water resources, water quality, wastes and climate change adaptation; socio-hydrology

E-mail     Website      (306) 966-1990


Faculty Collaborators

Dr. Lee Barbour

Department of Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering, University of Saskatchewan

Research interests: Geotechnical/Geo-environmental: Saturated/Unsaturated Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport, Mine Waste Reclamation

E-mail     Website      (306) 966-5369


Dr. Angela Bedard-Haughn

Department of Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan

Research interests: how land use and climate changes affect, and are affected by, pedologic properties of Canadian ecosystems, with an emphasis on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics using field measurements and stable isotope techniques

E-mail     Website      (306) 966-4291


Dr. Ken Belcher

Department of Bioresource Policy, Business, and Economics, University of Saskatchewan

Research interests: Ecological economics; resource and environmental economics; environmental policy; climate change; wetland and wildlife conservation policy

E-mail     Website      (306) 966-4019


Dr. Edwin Cey

Department of Geosciences, University of Calgary

Research interests: Groundwater Recharge and Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction, Preferential Flow and Transport Processes in Macroporous Soils, Fate and Transport of Colloids and Bacteria in the Vadose Zone

E-mail     Website      (403) 220-8393


Dr. Edward Johnson

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary

Research interests: wildfires, avalanches, hillslope and fluvial geomorphic processes, climate,  landuse, and other processes as they affect tree populations

E-mail     Website      (403) 220-3570


Dr. Jonathan Price

Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo

Research interests: peatland/wetland hydrology, peatland construction and restoration

E-mail     Website      (519) 888-4567 ext. 35711


Dr. Maria Strack

Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo

Research interests: Soil greenhouse gas fluxes, wetland restoration, ecohydrology, organic soil physics, mitigation of land-use change greenhouse gas fluxes

E-mail     Website      (519) 888-4567 ext. 30164