GIER is an institutional network linking faculty from all colleges at the University of Guelph: The Ontario Veterinary College, the Ontario Agricultural College, the College of Arts, the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, the College of Biological Sciences, and the Lang School of Business and Economics.
These are our Faculty Affiliate Members from across campus and their areas of expertise within environmental research.
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Hydrology, remote sensing, soils, soil moisture
Materials for contaminant removal, characterization, mechanical behaviour of polymers for remediation, detection of contaminants
Improvisation, human rights, pedagogy
Biodiversity, neotropical, insect, elevation, forestry, entomology, arthropod, ecology, evolution, climate
Agricultural economy, new technology, farm-level practices, agricultural and environmental policy
Climate modelling, dynamical systems, mathematical biology
Contemporary art history and theory, aesthetics and ethics of art, ecology, global systems of waste, energy use, political ecologies, climate change, Circumpolar North
Biocarbon innovation, bioplastics, pyrolysis of agricultural, forestry and food residues, surface engineering and filler-matrix adhesion, compatibilization, injection moulding, 3D printing, reactive extrusion, compostability, recycle plastic waste utilization, value added coproducts and byproducts
Atmospheric sciences, air quality, thermal comfort, thermo-fluids, urban environment, energy systems, turbulent flows, computational fluid dynamics, experimental thermo-fluids, weather prediction and forecasting
Disease ecology, host-pathogen interactions, disease dynamics, waterborne diseases, disease transmission, population ecology, population dynamics
Wildlife, early-life stress, ecophysiology, local adaptation, environmental stress, microbiome, urbanization, agriculture
Hydroecology and ecological flows, wetland and stream restoration, rainwater management, low impact development, water resources policy
Life history theory, life history evolution, development, evolution, aquatic sciences, toxicology, transgenerational plasticity, physiology, microalgae, aquaculture
Rivers and streams, fluvial hydraulics, urban and rural hydrology, sediment transport, river morphodynamics, urban flood hazard, basement flooding, contaminant transport
Environmental public health, built environment, healthy public policy, public health intervention planning and evaluation
Diptera, entomology, biodiversity, taxonomy, phylogenetics, systematics, genomics, pollination, Syrphidae (Flower flies), community science
Sustainable soil management, soil physics, precision agriculture, proximal soil sensing, digital soil mapping, data driven agriculture, information -based soil management, soil sensors, greenhouse gas emission
Multivariate statistics, graphical Markov models, ecological networks, bootstrap, survival statistics, machine learning
Groundwater, aquifers, aquitards, source water protection, sustainable water supplies, soil and groundwater contaminant transport and assimilation, high resolution monitoring, process-based characterization, land disposal of wastes and nutrient cycling, climate and land use change influences on water budgets/systems
Animal behaviour, flexible animals, changing environments, complex environments, evolution, aquatic ecosystems, fish
Air purification system, air pollution control device, photocatalyst, ammonia, size fractionated particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, emission factors, emission inventories, air dispersion modelling, poultry
Anaerobic digestion, waste valorization, bioenergy, agriculture, biomass, sustainability, fermentation, pretreatment, biotechnology, livestock mortality management
Conservation biology, biological diversity, plants evolutionary ecology, hybridization, gene flow, population genetics, introduced – native species interactions, pollination
Anishinaabe Aki, Canadian Subarctic, boreal forest, industrialization, Anishinaabe survivance, crop restoration, food sovereignty, land sharing/Treaty relationships
Restaurant food waste, sustainability in food-service, sustainable employment models in restaurants
Climate fiction as creative practice, ecological fiction, human/animal/more-than-human relations, climate imagination, land-based writing, literatures of the Anthropocene
Wildlife health, ecosystem health, ecology of diseases, rodent and vector borne zoonotic diseases
Greenhouse gas emissions, agriculture, soil health, soil ecosystem services, carbon footprint, crop rotations, soil nitrous oxide emissions, state-of-the-art soil lysimeters, micrometeorological techniques
Institutions, environmental governance, urbanization, livelihoods, climate change, Latin America, South and Southeast Asia
Ecological models, artificial intelligence, game theory, bioinformatics
Ecological & public health risk assessment, statistical methods, bridging the digital divide, community-engaged software design, transdisciplinary pedagogy
Herbicide persistence and fate in soil, integrated weed management in vegetable crops, weed biology, cover crop residue management, weed-crop competitive interactions
Contemporary art and the environment, contemporary art and food, land art, outdoor art education, performance art, social practice art, naturalist cultures, environmental research creation in visual art
Climate change, evolutionary rescue, molecular ecology, predator-prey responses, aquaculture genetics
Agriculture and environment, food security, food sovereignty, political ecology, rural livelihoods
Animal migration, movement ecology, forest ecology, urban ecology, ornithology, habitat use, conservation, life history trade-offs
Relational leadership for sustainability, multi-sector collaboration, societal learning, social innovation intermediaries, sustainability design labs, sustainability transitions, education for sustainability, SMEs and sustainability, organizational change and sustainability, social-ecological resilience
Geology and groundwater, environmental geology, glacial geology, sedimentary geology
Environmental governance, ecosystem services, climate adaptation, geomatics, webmapping
Environmental engineering, soil remediation, water treatment, functional materials, emulsions, gels, colloids, polymers
Agroecology, sustainable food systems, community-engaged scholarship, knowledge networks, Latin America
Food security under economic globalization and climate change, land use change, integrated socio-economic/crop/climate modelling, farmer behaviour
Heathlands as cultural landscapes, ecology and ethnoecology of plants, environmental policy, Indigenous-led conservation
Food waste reduction, postharvest management strategies, plant-environment interactions, plant-biotic organism interactions, specialized plant metabolism, natural products, agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, enzyme evolution
Beekeeping development, honeybee ecology, evolution, insect behaviour, honeybee biogeography, Asian honeybees, speciation
Ecohydrology, soil hydrology, watershed connectivity, forest and agro-ecosystems environmental modelling
Fish physiology, reproduction, endocrine disruption, toxicology, risk assessment, weight of evidence, wastewater effluents, environmental hormones
Plants, fungi, soil, mycorrhiza, mutualism, ecology, evolution, climate change, conservation, restoration
Indigenous health, indigenous food systems, maternal nutrition, infant and young child feeding, diabetes prevention, food sovereignty, energy sovereignty, global health
Water/wastewater treatment, water quality, drinking water distribution, risk assessment, environmental health
Broadband network, internet infrastructure, rural and regional development, agricultural innovation systems, socio-ecological systems, capacity development, gender analysis, knowledge management and mobilization, extension studies
Fluvial geomorphology, ecohydrology, sediment budgets, watercourse and aquatic habitat restoration, systems undergoing change
Environmental microbiology, cryoenvironments, permafrost, polar microbiology, marine subsurface microbiology, low energy environments, genomics, bioinformatics, astrobiology
Soundscape composition, field recording, acoustic ecology
Environmental chemistry, natural organic matter, soil and groundwater contamination, remediation, analytical instrumentation
Hydrogeology, groundwater issues, water quantity, water quality, integrated modelling, agriculture and water, climate change and water, source water protection, First Nations and water resources
Knowledge systems engagement, socio-ecological sustainability/conservation/stewardship/governance, community-engaged scholarship/learning
Environmental governance and resource management, environmental politics and sustainable development, digital technology and social media in environmental surveillance and communications, fisheries and coastal communities, the ‘blue economy’
Wildlife ecology, Indigenous knowledge systems, stewardship, Indigenous environmental science
Environmental performance, sustainability reporting, corporate governance, sustainability accounting
Sustainable nanomaterials, polysaccharides, plant-derived biopolymers, advanced microscopies, advanced spectroscopies
Population dynamics, spatial dynamics, movement, food web, harvesting, anthropogenic disturbance
Environmental economics, natural resource economics, benefit-cost analysis
Agricultural meteorology, measurement and modelling of atmospheric turbulent transport, environmental instrumentation, agricultural physics
Environmental epidemiology, spatial statistics, spatial temporal statistics, species distribution modelling, animal abundance estimation
Arboretum, plant collections, native plants, living laboratory, outreach, education, conservation, gene banks, species-at-risk
Human-environment geography, sustainability transformations, urban-rural linkages, counterurbanisation, vulnerability, social-ecological crises, ecosystem services, inequality, food systems, agency, human dimensions of global change
Community ecology, data analysis in R, metacommunity dynamics, molecular identification, spatio-temporal analysis, computational ecology, microbiome, meta-analysis
Critical theory, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, ecopoetry and ecocriticism, environmental ethics, posthumanist ethics and politics, plant metaphysics and ethics, animality, philosophy of difference
Anthropology, climate change, multispecies ethnography, Buddhism, ethics of care, environmental knowledge, infrastructure, Himalayas, India, Ladakh
Social life of waste, food waste, informal recycling, waste management policy, environmental inequality, urban political ecology
Vector-borne zoonoses, epidemiology, disease ecology, One Health, invasive tick, invasive pathogen, companion animal
Mathematical theory, food webs, resilience, stability, ecosystem function, aquatic ecosystems, fisheries, climate change, global change, biotracers
Environmentally friendly chemistry, clean energy, environmental remediation, aqueous chemistry, environmentally friendly materials chemistry, chemistry at interfaces, remote sensing, clean agriculture, free radical science, radiation science
Statistical inference, machine learning, ecological modelling, big data analytics, wildlife population dynamics, forest fire modeling, climate change and agricultural productivity
Genomics, public deliberation, social and ethical implications, ELSI, GE3LS
Agro-ecology, forage crops, service crops, soil quality, water quality, nutrient use efficiency, nutrient cycling, phosphorus, carbon sequestration, biodiversity
Creative writing, business of writing and publishing, slavery and freedom, human rights, migration, collective identity
Computational electrochemistry, density functional theory, energy storage and conversion
Animal behaviour, animal welfare, environmental enrichment, human-animal relationships
Infectious disease modelling, spatial and spatiotemporal disease analysis, environmental effect monitoring and surveillance methods, computational statistics
Sustainability science, climate change ecology, biodiversity, human-environment modelling, ecological modelling, complex system theory, ecopoetry
Sustainable materials, nanobiocomposites, waste utilization, bioplastics, biofibres, polymer processing, additive manufacturing, polymer blends, circular economy, multilayer packaging, biodegradability
Sustainable tourism, sustainable food, and rural economic development
Sustainable vegetable production, integrated pest management, adaptation to climate change, soil phosphorous
Organic and inorganic chemistry, remediation of soil and water, dehalogenation technology, chemical reduction, pesticides, heavy metals
Plant environment interactions, controlled environment, agriculture, indoor vertical farming, biological life support
Environmental adoption and behaviour, population health and the environment, game theory, data-driven modelling, complex dynamics of populations
Perennial herbaceous and woody biomass crops, agroforestry, soil organic carbon sequestration, international development, food security, soil health
Biodiversity, ecosystem structure and function, ecosystem stability, food web ecology, limnology, sustainable agriculture, aquaculture interactions with the environment, multiple stressors, cumulative effects
Environmental conservation, community based monitoring, land use planning, community capacity development, natural resource governance, social studies of science, Northern Indigenous and resource based communities, research partnerships, knowledge systems
Cortisol, mycotoxin, inflammation, endotoxin, genomics, immunotoxicology, immunogenetics, thermal stress, stress resilience
Marine conservation policy, marine protected areas, international conservation governance, science-policy interface, political ecology, Science and Technology Studies, geopolitics, ecotourism, collaborative qualitative methods
Public health, One Health, epidemiology, biostatistics, machine learning, spatial statistics, geographic epidemiology, disease surveillance, zoonoses, open science
Environmental toxicology, aquatic toxicology, risk assessment, risk communication, aquatic ecology, aquatic insects
Sustainability, food systems, human ecology, fisheries, resilience
Soil Erosion, soil health, water quality, Lake Erie phosphorus, greenhouse gas emissions, best management practices, hydrological and water quality modeling, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cloud computing
Plant adaptations to changing climates, biodiversity conservation, biology of endangered plants, light induced responses, neurotransmitters, cold stress management, drought tolerance in plants
Carbon capture, utilization and sequestration, solid waste treatment and valorization, climate change mitigation, pollution monitoring and control, soil amendments and fertilizers, applied geochemistry and mineralogy
Remediation, petroleum hydrocarbons, bioremediation, brownfields, modelling, treatment fresh-cut wash-water, fugitive methane gas emissions
Pedology, micromorphology, soil thin sections, x-ray computed tomography, digital image processing, soil structure, soil hydromorphism, magnetic induction, magnetic susceptibitity, electrical conductivity
Biodiversity, bioinformatics, biomonitoring, biotechnology, DNA barcoding, environmental DNA, food integrity, animal and plant health
Feminist political ecology, ethical/sustainable consumption, digital natures, media and environment
Indigenous conservation governance, conservation social science, political ecology, decolonial conservation, conservation induced livelihood change
Environmental economics, environmental statistics, climate policy, climate data, model evaluation
Organizational identity, image and reputation on organizational responses, corporate social responsibility and sustainability, reputational risk, social enterprise, food insecurity and poverty, implications of diversity
Rural development, community economic development, regional planning, governance, wealth and philanthropy, public policy
Species-at-risk, population ecology, conservation, migration, connectivity
Environmental toxicology, ecological risk assessment, freshwater mussel conservation, pesticide toxicology, mollusk biology, soil toxicology, aquatic ecology
Renaissance art, portraits; women, art, and social networks; collecting history
Sustainable small farmer agriculture, Honduras, participatory plant breeding, gender, youth
Arctic, biodiversity, bioinformatics, DNA barcoding, freshwater, molecular evolution
Urban climate, canopy micrometeorology, urban heat mitigation, pedestrian thermal comfort, climate change adaptation, land-atmosphere interaction, regional climatology, microclimate effect of urban trees, urban canopy model development
Rural planning and development, rural studies, water security and governance, Indigenous peoples, capacity building, community-based approaches
Ocean monitoring, seabird biology, ecology, knowledge transfer, biomimetics, science communication
Gender planning in agri-food systems, gender transformative change, farmer led research, indigenous food systems, integrated seed systems, international research for development, gender and intersectionality in agri-food systems
Deep-learning, deep belief networks, recurrent networks, spatio-temporal pattern recognition, pattern induction, bioinformatics
Agriculture and environment, agroecology, climate change, coffee, crop diseases, environmental history, global history, history of science and technology, science and technology studies, sustainability, tropical crops
Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous law, water, reconciliation, Indigenous research methodologies, ecosystem, Indigenous Elders
Wetlands, biogeochemistry, metals, phosphorus, bioremediation, mining, soil, microbial geochemistry, climate change
Animal history, American West, Canadian West, entertainment history, rodeo, circus, dog racing, exotic animals, tourism history, performance studies
Indigenous peoples, Arctic Canada, Subarctic Canada, ethnography, research ethics, Knowledge Systems
Energy economics, environmental economics, supply chain management, electricity markets, electricity auctions, oil markets, OPEC, capital investment, dynamic pricing, imperfect competition
Environmental kuznets curve, trade off between emissions and economic growth, demand for energy, alternative energy sources and economic growth
Anti-consumption, business ethics, corporate social responsibility, cause-related marketing, marketing and public policy, marketing and society, public health, social marketing, sustainability, tobacco control
Fungal ecology, forest fungi, grass fungi, fungal genome sequencing and assembly
Experimental economics, innovation adoption, consumer behavior, green nudges, eco-labeling
Land use planning, agricultural land use, rural conflict resolution, local governance, healthy rural and small town communities, community based approaches to economic and environmental issues
Non-/semiparametric estimation and hypothesis tests, non-stationary time series analysis, panel data models, spatial econometrics
Cannabis production, controlled environment plant production, vertical farming, indoor farming, rootzone management, lighting, fertilization, irrigation, water disinfection, green roof
Biogeography, climate change, forest ecology, dendrochronology, wildfire, mountains, ecotones, paleoclimatology, geomatics
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