Faculty MSc Environmental Science

The faculty listed below are eligible to supervise (Full) or co-supervise (Associate) 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. For general inquiries, please email: EnvSciMsc@tru.ca

Name	Department	Status as supervisor in MSc program	Research Areas
Dr. Lyn Baldwin	Biological Sciences	Full	Plant ecology, forest, riparian communities, bryophytes, human disturbance, fragmentation
Dr. Eric Bottos	Biological Sciences	Associate
Dr. Rick Brewster	Mathematics & Statistics	Full	Discrete mathematics, theoretical computing science; computational complexity; graph theory; polynomial time algorithms and good characterizations
Dr. Darryl Carlyle-Moses	Environment, Culture and Society	Full	Hydrology, microclimatology, urban biophysical environments
Dr. Kellee Caton	Tourism Management	Full	Moral philosophy for tourism and leisure, humanism, the role of tourism in ideological production, lived experience and personal development, consumer culture, epistemological and pedagogical issues in tourism studies
Dr. Naowarat (Ann) Cheeptham	Biological Sciences	Full	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	Natural Resource Sciences	Full	Sustainability of cattle industry, range management, meat production, beef production
Dr. Hasnat Dewan	Economics	Full	Sustainable development, environmental and natural resource economics, banking crises, human development
Dr. Mike Flannigan	Natural Resource Sciences	Full	Wildland fire, fire weather, fire behaviour, lightning-caused fires, climate change, landscape fire modelling, fire growth modelling, machine learning
Dr. Lauchlan Fraser	Biological Sciences; Natural Resource Sciences	Full	Ecosystem reclamation, biodiversity, climate change, rangeland management
Dr. Louis Gosselin	Biological Sciences	Full	Marine invertebrate ecology: early life history, population regulation, community structure, mortality factors, invasive species, species at risk, benthic species, intertidal, subtidal, dispersal
Dr. James Gu	Architectural & Engineering Technology	Full	Timber engineering, reliability and probability analysis, earthquake engineering, disaster resilient built environment and innovative structural systems
Dr. Jillian Harvey	Natural Resource Sciences	Full	Fire ecology, forest ecology, drought, climate change, ecotones, tree rings
Dr. David Hill	Environment, Culture and Society	Full	Data mining and modeling methods, complex environmental systems problems, fate and transport of contaminants, decision trees, artificial neural networks, etc.
Crystal Huscroft	Environment, Culture and Society	Associate
Dr. Heidi Huttenen-Hennelly	Chemistry	Full	The investigation of structure-activity relationships and mechanism of action in antimicrobial peptides through traditional and novel methods
Dr. Robin Kleiv	Physical Sciences	Associate	Theoretical particle physics, QCD sum rules, hadronic physics
Dr. Laura Lamb	Economics	Associate	Community economic development, applied microeconomics, public finance, policy economics, behavioural economics
Dr. Kara Lefevre	Natural Resource Sciences	Full	Conservation biology, biodiversity, human-wildlife interactions, ornithology, land use impacts on plant-animal ecology; interplay of science, politics and decision-making; diversity in STEM education
Dr. Mohammad Mahbobi	Economics	Full	Quantitative methods in business, management, and economics, international trade and trade policy, applied economics, crude oil market
Dr. Courtney Mason	Tourism Management	Full	Parks and Protected Areas; Rural Food Security and Sovereignty; Tourism and Rural Development; Indigenous Methodologies and Land-Use Management; Indigenous Conservation Practices; Sport and Conservation Fishing; Wildlife Management and Conflict
Dr. Nelaine Mora-Diez	Chemistry	Full	Computational chemistry, atmospheric chemistry, kinetic studies, thermodynamic studies, excited states
Dr. Yana Nec	Mathematics & Statistics	Full	Applied analysis, modelling and optimisation, numerical and graphical simulation, applications in natural sciences and engineering
Dr. Dipesh Prema	Chemistry	Full	Synthetic organometallic/inorganic chemistry, applications in air-free handling. Catalysis. Use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to investigate and quantify the fatty acid composition of forage, meat and dairy products.
Dr. Musfiq Rahman	Computing Science	Full	Research in wireless technologies such as Near Field Communication (NFC), Internet of Things (IoT), smartphone applications, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), use machine learning and big data analysis to predict forest fire
Dr. Mark Rakobowchuk	Biological Sciences	Full	Human vascular adaptations to physiological perturbations, the interplay between platelets and vascular health, microvesicles and progenitor cells and their role in exercise induced adaptations
Dr. Matthew Reudink	Biological Sciences	Full	Ornithology, animal ecology, evolution of plumage in birds, animal behaviour
Dr. Mateen Shaikh	Mathematics & Statistics	Associate	Computational statistics, clustering, classification, statistical learning, machine learning, data mining, association rules, pattern recognition, visualization, longitudinal data, biostatistics, microarray analysis, next-generation sequencing analysis
Dr. Mridula Sharma	Computing Science	Associate
Jacqueline Sorensen	Natural Resource Sciences	Associate	Freshwater ecology, aquatics invertebrates, fisheries, bioassessment/water quality monitoring, land-use practices on headwater streams and fish habitat
Dr. Rochelle Stevenson	Environment, Culture and Society	Associate	Green criminology, crimes against the environment, human-animal relationships, animal abuse, animal welfare
Dr. Mohamed Tawhid	Mathematics & Statistics	Full	Computatational intelligence, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence, and their applications to data analysis, big data, optimization, modelling and simulation in environmental studies.
Dr. Kimberly Thomas-Francois	Tourism	Full	Business and the environment, tourism, agriculture, public sector management, sustainable development
Dr. Jabed Tomal	Mathematics & Statistics	Full	Statistical modeling, theoretical machine learning, and Bayesian statistical methods with applications to drug discovery, genetics, biology, ecology, environment, and public health research. Dr. Tomal loves to help students applying novel statistical & computational methods to interesting problems
Dr. Peter Tsigaris	Economics	Full	Environmental economics, economics of clean technologies, of climate change, environmental policy and regulation, environmental management, environmental experiments for education, valuation of environmental goods and services
Dr. Joanna Urban	Biological Sciences	Associate	Environmental microbiology; molecular and biochemical techniques, dwarf mistletoe's seed development
Dr. Nancy Van Wagoner	Physical Sciences	Full
Dr. Joel Wood	Economics	Full	Environmental economics, resource economics, energy economics, public policy
Dr. Jon Van Hamme	Biological Sciences	Full	Environmental microbiology, biodegradation, bioremediation, pollutants, microbiology, biocatalyst
Adjunct Faculty
Dr. Kingsley Donkor	Chemistry	Full	Environmental and analytical chemistry, chemometric techniques in environmental and agricultural research, speciation of air particulates and health effects
Dr. Karl Larsen	Natural Resource Sciences	Full	Wildlife conservation and management, mammalogy, herpetology, dispersal theory, movement ecology and habitat use
Dr. Nancy Elliott	Adjunct NRS, BC Ministry of FLNRO	Associate
Dr. Purnima Govindarajulu	Adjunct, University of Victoria	Associate
Dr. Leif-Matthias Herborg	Fisheries and Oceans Canada	Associate
Dexter Hodder	John Prince Research Forest	Associate
Dr. Leigh Anne Isaac	Adjunct NRS, Senior Wildlife Biologist for Vast Resource Solutions	Associate
Dr. Cori Lausen	Wildlife Conservation Society Canada	Associate
Brian Wallace		Associate