Faculty
School of the Environment Faculty
Dr. Cameron’s research examines effects of global change (climate change, invasive species, habitat loss) on species distributions, community composition, and ecosystem functioning. She is especially interested in earthworm invasions, aboveground-belowground interactions, and soil biodiversity. She uses a combination of field observations, experiments, citizen science, molecular approaches, data synthesis, and modelling to assess global change impacts across spatial and temporal scales.
- ENVS 2300 Environmental Science: Populations & Ecosystems
- ENVS 4432 Data Science in the Environment
- ENVS 4470 Environmental Remediation and Restoration
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- Lab Website - https://www.erincameronlab.com/
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Dr. Campbell is Senior Research Fellow in Environmental Sciences and the principal investigator of the Dynamic Environment and Ecosystem Health Reseach (DEEHR) group. Currently she is serving as Chair for the Department of Environmental Science. Her teaching & research interests include the impact of 150-year-old historical gold mine tailings on Nova Scotia wetlands and how trace metals and contaminants move through aquatic food webs across Canada and around the world. Within the Dynamic Environment and Ecosystem Health Research (DEEHR) Laboratory, she has supervised many graduate students and postdoctoral fellows working on diverse research projects. Dr. Campbell’s research group has published extensively, with over numerous peer-review publications on projects across Nova Scotia, China, Africa, Argentina, Canada and the USA supported by several millions of dollars in research funding.
Courses taught:
- ENVS 3450 - Aquatic Environments
- ENVS 4480 - Environmental Contaminants
- ENVS 4599 - Honours Thesis Coordinator
- ENVS 4799 - Honours Research Frameworks
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Dr. Tony CharlesDr. Charles is Director for the School of the Environment, as well as a faculty member of of the Environmental Science Department (cross-appointed also in the Sobey School of Business). He teaches a range of environmental, natural resource and sustainability courses. Tony specializes in interdisciplinary research on natural resources and the environment, covering such topics as community-based management, ecosystem-based management and climate change adaptation. He leads the global Community Conservation Research Network (www.CommunityConservation.Net), based at Saint Mary’s, which focuses on local conservation and sustainable livelihoods. He is a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, a Gulf of Maine Visionary Award winner, and Vice-Chair of the Fisheries Expert Group in IUCN’s Commission on Ecosystem Management. Tony works equally at a local level (with Indigenous and coastal communities across Atlantic Canada), nationally (in particular, providing guidance to the Canadian and Nova Scotian governments), and globally (e.g., with the United Nations and the OECD).
Courses taught:
- SMBA 6801 Environment & Sustainability Management (also listed as MGSC 4848)
- ENVS 4440 Environmental Policy
- ENVS 4450 Natural Resource Management
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Dr. Conrad is a Full Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Saint Mary’s University and currently on sabbatical (2023-24) as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University of Osnabruck in Germany. After a transition from research on water security and community-based monitoring, Dr. Conrad’s work since 2018 has been focused on West African migration, specifically involuntary immobility, containment development and most recently environmental migration. Dr. Conrad is the Founder of the Atlantic Water Network and has conducted research in the Canada, the Caribbean, Vietnam, Nepal and regions of West and Southern Africa. As a more recent research shift to water and food security in West Africa, particularly the Gambia, new questions around environmental migrants and migration in general have emerged.
Recent Publications* Include:
Maganga, T. and Conrad Suso, C. 2022 “The impact of colonial and contemporary land policies on climate change adaptation in Zimbabwe’s communal areas” JAMBA 14(1): doi: 10.4102/jamba.v14i1.1311
Conrad Suso, C. 2022 “Totally Napse; aspirations of mobility in Essau, The Gambia” Third World Quarterly DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2022.2074827
Maganga, T. and Conrad Suso, C. 2022 “Human Mobility and Climate Change Adaptation in Zimbabwe’s Small Scale Farming Areas” Africa Review 14: 68-97.
Conrad Suso, C. 2020 "Involuntary immobility and the unfulfilled rite of passage; implications for migration management in The Gambia, West Africa" International Migration 58(4) 184-194 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/imig.12675?af=R4
Conrad Suso, C. 2019 “Rains” Understory Magazine, December, 2019 https://understoreymagazine.ca/article/rains/
Conrad Suso, C. 2019 “Backway or bust: causes and consequence of Gambian irregular migration” Journal of Modern African Studies 57(1) 111-135.
*Publishing under the surname Conrad Suso
Courses taught:
- GEOG 3020: Geography of Development
- GEOG 3350: Geography of Africa
- GEOG 4100: International Field School
- GEOG 4828: Geography Behind the Headlines
Dr. Claudia De Fuentes is Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary's University (SMU). She is the Program Coordinator of the Master of Management in Cooperatives and Credit Unions (MMCCU).
Her research experience includes innovation in organizations and contributions to place-making, systems of innovation, the creation and use of knowledge in a globalized economy, new forms of academia–industry collaboration, and science, technology and innovation policy.
She is currently working on the following research projects: i) impact assessment of innovation policy, sustainability and clean-tech, ii) urban coalitions for gateway development, iii) the role of the craft wine industry in Nova Scotia on innovation and place-making, iv) immigration in the agri-food industry.
She has done research and lectured internationally in Mexico, Canada, Sweden, Vietnam, and Peru on topics such as innovation systems, innovation policy, innovation management, global innovation, and entrepreneurship. She has supervised PhD and Master's theses on related topics.
Her work has received international attention and her publications have received over 1,000 thousand citations (Google Scholar, Jan 2023) by academics and policy-makers. She is an editorial board member of Innovation and Development, the International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development, and has guest-edited special issues in Science and Public Policy, Innovation and Development, and International Business Review and for SAGE Publications.
Dr. Kate Ervine holds a PhD in Political Science from York University. Her research draws on the traditions of critical political economy and political ecology to examine global environmental governance, the politics of climate change mitigation, global carbon markets and carbon offsetting, climate finance to the Global South, and climate justice.
Dr. Ervine is currently working on co-producing Carbon Addicts, a short documentary film that is being funded through a collaborative grant under the SSHRC-funded project The Hidden Costs of Global Supply Chains. The film will be carried by Scientific American upon completion. Dr. Ervine is also working on a book project, The Everyday Politics of Global Environmental Problems, under contract with Polity Press. Finally, she maintains an active research project that examines the political economy of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement under which the rules for global carbon trading and carbon offsetting are being developed, in addition to researching the politics of using market mechanisms to raise climate finance for the Global South.
Dr. Ervine is the author of Carbon (Polity Press, 2018), the co-editor (with Gavin Fridell) of Beyond Free Trade: Alternative Approaches to Trade, Politics, and Power (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), and the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters. She currently sits as a full member of Carbon Market Watch, an international policy and advocacy organization headquartered in Belgium; she is a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - Nova Scotia; and she works with the Affordable Energy Coalition on issues energy justice in Nova Scotia.
Courses Taught:
- IDST 2301 – Introduction to Development Studies: Perspectives
- IDST 2302 – Introduction to Development Studies: Policies and Practice
- IDST 3848 – The Everyday Politics of Global Environmental Problems
- IDST 4500 – Honours Seminar in International Development Studies
- IDST 4470/5570 – Environment and Development
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- Faculty Website: https://www.smu.ca/researchers/arts/kateervine/
Dr. Fowler is a Professor in the Anthropology Department. As a Landscape Archaeologist, he is interested in locating and investigating physical evidence of human activity as well as understanding how human relationships with the environment are culturally mediated. Dr. Fowler's interdisciplinary research into early colonial settlements in Nova Scotia emphasizes the importance of Indigenous people in colonial society and includes long-running archaeological field investigations in partnership with a wide range of communities and organizations. Among his research interests are archaeological geophysics, public archaeology, and critical heritage studies.
Courses taught:
- ANTH 3378: Landscape Archaeology
- ANTH 4378: Advanced Landscape Archaeology
- ANTH 3379: Archaeology of Acadia
- ANTH 3573: Archaeology of Halifax
- ANTH 4467: Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Archaeology
Dr. Fridell is a University Research Professor and Professor of Political Science and Global Development Studies, whose research focuses on trade and trade justice through the lens of international political economy, critical development studies, and psychoanalytic theory. He has published widely on trade and political economy, including co-authoring, with Ilan Kapoor, Maureen Sioh, and Pieter de Vries, Global Libidinal Economy (SUNY Press 2023), authoring Coffee (Polity Press 2014) and Alternative Trade: Legacies for the Future (Fernwood Press 2013) and co-editing, with Zack Gross and Sean McHugh, The Fair Trade Handbook: Building a Better World, Together (Fernwood Press 2021). His research focuses on: 1) advancing critical assessments of free trade, whose alternative insights have often been denied in conventional trade thinking; and 2) developing socially and ecologically sustainable alternative trade models. His work places social power, ideology, history, and politics central to the analysis of trade. He has worked on several collaborative initiatives with academics, social justice groups, nongovernmental organizations, and policy networks, including the Canadian Fair Trade Network (CFTN) and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
Courses Taught:
- GDST 1000 Global Development in Turbulent Times
- GDST 2401 Fair Trade and Free Trade
- GDST 4840 Trade, Justice and Power
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Dr. Giles is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. His research interests are broadly in geomorphology and remote sensing. He has conducted studies in coastal environments (sand dunes) and fluvial landscapes (alluvial fans), and currently applies satellite image analysis and digital elevation model processing to geomorphic studies. He is a co-author of Geosystems: An Introduction to Physical Geography (Third and Fourth Canadian editions) and Communicating in Geography and the Environmental Sciences (First and Second Canadian editions).
Courses taught:
- GEOG 2306: Geospatial Concepts
- GEOG 2313: Geomorphology
- GEOG 3100: Geography Field School
- GEOG 3433: Fluvial Geomorphology
- GEOG 3356: Remote Sensing of the Environment
- GEOG 4423: Glacial Geomorphology
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Dr. Heather Green is an assistant professor in the Department of History who specializes in environmental history and histories of Indigenous-settler relations with a particular focus on the Canadian North. Dr. Green focuses on resource extraction, mining history, and histories of environment and tourism. She has published her environmental history work in journals such as the Canadian Historical Review, Inuit Studies, the Journal of Tourism History, and the Northern Review. Her first book, The Great Upheaval: Gold Mining and Environmental Change in the Klondike (forthcoming with UBC Press) examines colonial history of gold mining and environmental transformation in relation to Indigenous-setter relations in the Klondike region of the Yukon Territory. She was privileged to work with the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation in Dawson City throughout that research process. She is currently working on a collaborative project that examines the various concepts of borders and boundaries in the Canadian North. Heather is an editor and executive member of the Network in Canadian History and Environment.
Courses taught:
- HIST 2833: Environmental History of North America
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Dr. Grek-Martin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. He is a cultural and historical geographer and his research analyzes the rich and multi-faceted concept of place—particularly the dynamic and power-laden processes by which places are constructed, contested, and imbued with complex meanings by individuals and communities. Jason’s current research explores place-making primarily in the context of travel and tourism to sites of difficult heritage and contested memoryscapes, drawing on a robust interdisciplinary scholarship developing at the intersection of heritage tourism, media tourism, and geographies of memory. In addition, he has ongoing research interests in the historical and contemporary intersections between culture, nature and place, particularly in relation to the ‘cultures of nature’ associated with parks within and around Halifax. While environmental issues feature prominently in many of his courses, Jason’s interests in the geographic manifestations of culturally-contingent concepts of nature are explicitly addressed in GEOG 3329: Geographical Perspectives on Nature.
Courses taught:
- GEOG 1100: Global Perspectives on Land & Life
- GEOG 2349: Cultural Geography
- GEOG 3329: Geographical Perspectives on Nature
- GEOG 4449: Tourist Geographies
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Dr. Hanley is appointed in the Department of Geology. His research interests include: quantitative fluid and melt inclusion studies in magmatic ore-forming systems with a focus on Ni-Cu-PGE and alkalic porphyry deposits; ore body characterization with a focus on understanding the mineralogical factors controlling PGE and deleterious metal distribution with a goal of maximizing mining process efficiency and environmental protection; hydrothermal experimental studies involving the synthesis of fluid and melt inclusions; alteration and stable isotope studies surrounding magmatic ore deposits with a focus on the Sudbury Igneous Complex. His undergraduate and graduate students are working on fluid and melt inclusion studies in hydrothermal-magmatic ore-forming systems. A major goal of his current studies is to develop cost-effective geochemical exploration criteria that may be used to identify mineralized intrusions.
Courses taught:
- GEOL 4441 Mineral Resources
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Dr. Teresa Heffernan is Professor of English Language and Literature at Saint Mary’s University. She teaches courses in literary theory, critical posthumanism, feminist theory, and the novel. Her current area of research is on how the field of robotics and artificial intelligence is shaped by fiction. Animated by fiction and marketed as a miraculous technology, the AI industry has not only distracted us from species decline and the climate crisis but has contributed to it. At the heart of the problem of this resource-intensive and power-hungry industry is the troubling collapse of the organic with the synthetic and language with code. She has held research fellowships at JHI, University of Toronto (2024), https://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/people/fellows/circle-fellows/teresa-heffernan; the Kate Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at the University of Heidelberg (2022-23), https://www.capas.uni-heidelberg.de/en/fellowships-at-capas/former-fellows/teresa-heffernan; and she was a visiting scholar at the AI Lab, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto (2019-20). Her latest book is the edited collection Cyborg Futures: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (Palgrave, 2019); her current SSHRC-funded research is “AI everywhere”: The Mythical and Religious Roots of Algorithmic Faith; and she is co-editor (with Kathleen Richardson) for Palgrave MacMillan’s series Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI. Websites: https://www.socialrobotfutures.com/; https://drteresaheffernan.com/.
Website: https://drteresaheffernan.com/
Dr. Hervieux is the Director of the Centre for Leadership excellence. Dr. Hervieux also has close to twenty years experience in retail business management given that prior to her university studies, she worked for several companies including United Colors of Benetton.
Previous to joining Saint Mary’s University (summer 2014). Dr. Hervieux received numerous awards, scholarship, published and presented her work on social entrepreneurship and strategy at numerous conferences and published articles in specialized literature and academic journals. Since 2004 she has been involved at the Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development Research Chair where her work included the drafting and presentation of numerous reports bearing on Quebec’s sustainable development law as well as commentaries pertaining to sustainable development strategies and GES emissions, both provincial and federal.
Hervieux is a participating member of the Montreal pole of the Network for Business Sustainability. The network brings together business leaders (in two leader’s councils – Industry association council and SME council) and academic experts who work together producing research that is linked to practice and practices that are guided by research.
Dr. Min-Jung Kwak is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. Her research interests are located at the intersection of economic, urban and social geography, with a regional focus on Canada and the Asia-Pacific Region. Four substantive areas of her research are: Globalization and transnational migration; International education industry; Immigrant entrepreneurship; and Immigrant health care services. She has investigated the social implications and local impacts of global economic processes paying particular attention to the everyday lives of (im)migrants. This also includes an interest in public policy making around migration and settlement issues.
Courses taught:
- GEOG1100: Global Perspectives on Land & Life
- GEOG2341: Economic Geography
- GEOG3146: Qualitative Research Methods in Geography
- GEOG3351: Demography & Migration
- GEOG4150: Geographical Perspectives on Asia-Pacific Development
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- SMU Geography Faculty & Staff: https://www.smu.ca/geography/geography-faculty-and-staff.html
Dr. Lamoureux is currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry, a former Coordinator of the Environmental Studies Program (2001-2002, 2003-2006) and former Chairperson of Chemistry (July 2006 - June 2011). He has over 20 years of experience in chemical analysis of metals and metalloids in environmental samples, and with 10 years of experience with chemical analysis of organic compounds in environmental samples. He has published over 20 peer-reviewed publications, has presented numerous invited lectures and supervised approximately 40 highly qualified personnel.Dr. Lamoureux is a national/international expert in chemical instrumental analysis and chemical speciation of environmental samples. Dr. Lamoureux is also very active with outreach activities such as the Mini-University program, which is a multi-disciplinary programme for 9-14 year old children held every summer. He has also taught chemistry in French at the two Halifax/Dartmouth French high schools.
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Dr. McCallum is a Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures who teaches in the Ancient Studies Program. He specializes in Roman archaeology, archaeological ceramics, Roman villas, the ancient economy, imperialism, and ancient urbanism. With his co-editor, Fabio Colivicchi (Queen’s University) he has recently published The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion, a volume examining the diverging trajectories in urbanism taken regionally across ancient Italy prior and during the Roman conquest. His current research focuses on settlement in the Italian countryside during antiquity (from the 8th century BCE to the 7th century CE). This includes reconstructing elements of the ancient environment to understand the context of human activities such as craft production and agriculture in the past as well as anthropogenic changes to the ancient landscape. He has been awarded two SSHRC Standard Research Grants for work in the Basentello Valley of southern Italy and more recently a SSHRC Insight Grant and a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship (Harvard) for his ongoing work on Roman villas and imperial estates in the Apennines of central Italy. Dr. McCallum’s research is highly collaborative, and his research teams include colleagues from McMaster University, Queen’s University, the University of Nevada, Reno, the University of Calgary, the University of Rome, La Sapienza, Royal Holloway University, London, and the British School at Rome, as well as colleagues and students from Saint Mary’s University. Dr. McCallum is also the Co-Editor of Mouseion, the Journal of the Classical Association of Canada.
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- Modern Languages and Classics
- Villa of Titus Excavations
- http://www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2020-486.pdf
- www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2019-435.pdf
- https://www.facebook.com/Villaditito
- Basentello Valley Archaeological Research Project
- https://smu.novanet.ca/permalink/f/cmvnpb/TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1353_mou_2011_0003
- https://www.smu.ca/projects/bvarp/welcome.html
- Pompeii Pottery
Dr. Margaret McKee is an Associate Professor of Management in the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University. She integrates significant discussion of business’ environmental responsibilities in the core ethics courses she teaches in the Bachelor of Commerce and MBA programs. Margaret is the Academic Lead in the Sobey School of Business for the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) Implementation Group, and a member of the PRME North America Steering Committee. Her focus has been on promoting the integration of the PRME Principles within the business school, as well as the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Prior to joining Saint Mary’s, Margaret had a 20-year career in corporate affairs where she had involvement with corporate social responsibility initiatives. She has a variety of research interests linked to leadership, business ethics and sustainability. Some of her recent research projects include an examination of sustainability education in Canadian business schools, an analysis of the sustainability reports of PRME signatory schools from around the world, and research on the corporate social responsibility practices of Vietnamese firms.
Courses taught:
- MGMT3480 Ethical Responsibilities of Organizations
- MGMT6694 Ethical Issues in the World of Business
- EMBA 5516 Special topics in Ethics, Law and Governance
Dr. Mathew Novak is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Saint Mary’s. His research focuses on the development of the urban landscape, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to map processes and patterns of urban change. Currently he is working on inner city regeneration processes in mid-sized centres, including condominium development and the ways independent shops can carve out a niche in an increasingly corporatised retail environment.
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Dr. Mark Raymond is a member of the Department of Economics in the Sobey School of Business. Mark has been a former Interim Dean for the Sobey School of Business, twice served as an Associate Dean and has been Chairperson for the Department of Economics many years. He obtained his PhD in Resource and Environmental Economics from the University of Guelph in 2001. Mark has completed multiple resource and environmental-based research projects for governments, the private sector, and NGOs. He has published numerous articles in academic journals and has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in economics. Mark’s course list includes fishery economics, natural resource economics, environmental economics, and the global economy. He is also a former Professor of the Year in both the EMBA and MBA programs. Courses taught:
- ECON 3361 Fisheries Economics
- ECON 3363 Environmental Economics
- ECON 3362 Natural Resource Economics
Dr. Suteanu is a Professor at Saint Mary’s University, cross-appointed in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and the Department of Environmental Science. His research focuses on nonlinear analysis and modeling of natural systems. Applications include climate variability, renewable energy, and natural hazards. On the other hand, he studies epistemological aspects of our interaction with the environment, along with their implications for future education. His courses include Environmental Information Management, Statistical Methods in Geography, Natural Hazards and Climate Change, Environmental Pattern Analysis, as well as graduate and post-doc courses on nonlinear approaches to natural complex systems.
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Dr. Peter Twohig is a Professor in the Department of History and the Atlantic Canada Studies program. He is an historian of health and medicine, and is currently working on a SSHRC-funded project on the history of occupational health, that includes environmental dimensions. He is the author of three monographs (with a fourth one underway), co-edited a series of books on the interdisciplinary study of health, illness and disease, and is the author of more than thirty peer-reviewed academic papers, including articles in the British Medical Journal, the American Journal of Bioethics, the Canadian Historical Review, and many others.
Dr. van Proosdij is a professor at Saint Mary’s University, Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. As a coastal geomorphologist, she merges field studies and geomatics to understand how coastal ecosystems respond to natural and anthropogenic drivers of change, and how these responses can be leveraged to foster ecosystem resilience while assisting communities adapt to climate change. This includes coastal vulnerability assessments and the use of nature-based adaptation to manage flooding and erosion hazards in and outside of Canada. She is the co-founder and Director of TransCoastal Adaptations: Centre for Nature Based Solutions and has fostered a long-term partnership with CBWES Inc. and the Province of NS over the last 20 years, applying innovative and proven techniques to restore over 400 Ha of tidal wetland habitat in Nova Scotia. She has served as a scientific advisor for provincial, federal governments, international agencies and NGOs in assessing coastal erosion and flood risk.
Website: www.transcoastaladaptations.ca
Dr. Vessey is a Professor in the Department of Biology and the former Associate Vice President Research and Dean of Graduate Studies. His teaching and research area is in plant physiology, particularly the functional interactions between crop plants and beneficial micro-organisms, particularly as these apply to biofuel feedstock crops. He has supervised over 25 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows and has been awarded several regional and national research awards. Positions in which he has recently served, or is currently serving, include: Council Member of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Advisory Committees for the Nova Scotia Research and Innovation Trust and BioFuelNet Canada, and the Boards of Directors for the Atlantic Environmental Sciences Network, Offshore Energy Research Association, and Plant Inoculants Canada.
Dr. Lyndan Warner developed and now teaches the Environmental History of Europe courses on campus and online. She lived, studied and worked in Europe for ten years after her undergraduate degree. In trying to understand how geography shapes culture and history, Warner has travelled through Scandinavia, the Alps, hiked in the Pyrenees, followed the coasts of Spain, France, Italy and Greece and explored the islands of the Mediterranean. She is a member of an environmental protection group based in the Laurentians in Quebec.Courses taught:
- HIST 2201 Environmental History of Europe
- HIST 2201WW Environmental History of Europe online
Dr. Wei is an assistant professor at the Sobey School of Business where they teach Marketing Policy and Marketing Communications. Dr. Wei's research focuses on ethical consumption, including fair-trade, local and organic food, as well as community-minded, green enterprises. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, Dr. Wei's research questions how consumers develop knowledge about the marketplace. Dr. Wei’s research has assisted various local businesses in their attempts at growing sustainably. Dr. Wei's research has been supported by provincial programs as well as by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
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Dr. Wiacek is cross-appointed in the Departments of Environmental Science as well as Astronomy & Physics. She is interested in remote sensing of atmospheric trace gases involved in air pollution and climate and also in the climate effects of aerosol (suspended particles) through cloud interactions. Her research includes the development of ground- and satellite-based remote sensing instrumentation and data analysis techniques (retrieval algorithms and inverse theory). She is currently establishing the Tropospheric Remote Sensing Laboratory (TRSL) to characterize atmospheric composition in the planetary boundary layer at SMU and in the field, with the end goal of improving the understanding and prediction of atmospheric processes.
Dr. Wiacek helped establish the Toronto Atmospheric Observatory as part of her Ph.D. studies at the University of Toronto. She then researched aerosol-cloud interactions as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute (ETH) in Zürich. Finally, she held the position of Research Associate (remote sensing of aerosols) at Dalhousie University before joining SMU in 2013.
Courses taught:
- ENVS 1250 Physical Processes in the Environment
- ENVS 2300 Environmental Science: Populations & Ecosystems
- ENVS 2310 Environmental Science: Energy, Resources & Pollution
- ENVS 3360 Climate Change
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