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ALTOSAAR, Illimar »

Illimar Altosaar

Full professor
Faculty of Medicine
Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology

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Office: 6135625800 x 6371
Office: 6135625800 x 6375
Cell: 613 804 1885
Home: 613 518 7767
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New breeding techniques to fight global warming through climate-smart crops. Climate change, Greenhouse Gases, GHG, Global warming, carbon dioxide, CO2, Nitrous oxide, N2O, bioremediation, biotechnology, soil metagenome, soil microbiome, biodiversity, gene amplification, soil biocatalysts, Atmospheric phytoremediation, Pseudomonas nautica, Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus, nosZ gene operon, Nitrous Oxide reductase enzyme, fertilizer, Nitrogen cycle, nitrate run-off,

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AUDET, Pascal »

Pascal Audet

Assistant professor
Faculty of Science
Earth Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2344)
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Fault zone structure and earthquake processes in subduction zones; Earth's crustal structure and plate tectonics; Analysis of gravity fields of terrestrial planets

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BABA (PHD.), Rahim »

Part-time professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Association of Part-Time Professors of the University of Ottawa

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Eco-Canada certified consultant in Integrated Environmental management systems, ISO 14001 and Waste management; International development and Globalization; Natural resources management

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BAKER, R Tom »

R Tom Baker

Director, CCRI
Full professor
Faculty of Science
Chemistry

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Office: 613-562-5698
Home: 613-236-3695
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Research in the Baker group focuses on catalysis approaches to green and sustainable chemistry including hydrogen storage, biomass conversion and fluorocarbon synthesis.

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BATAILLE, Clement »

Assistant professor
Faculty of Science
Earth Sciences

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Office: 8329438588
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My research group combines isotope geochemistry and numerical modeling to develop and apply 1) isotope geolocation tools in ecology and forensics sciences, 2) isotope tracers of chemical weathering processes in hydrology, and 3) isotope proxies for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. The data and products generated in this research program have wide-reaching relevance to the investigation of forensic cases, traceability of food, implementation of wildlife conservation policies, improvement of water management practices, and reconstruction of paleoenvironments in Canada and beyond.

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BONAKDARI, Hossein »

Associate professor
Faculty of Engineering
Civil Engineering

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Office: 6135625800 Ext. 6016
Cell: 6045618383
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Cell Telephone, Office Telephone

Research information:

  • Climate change
  • Flooding
  • Risk assessment
  • Water-related risks
  • Design of climate change resilient water infrastructures
  • Optimizing water resources operation
  • Infrastructure real time modeling/management
  • Sustainable water resources management

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BOREUX, Maxime »

Part-time professor
Faculty of Arts
Geography

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BROWN, Adam Oliver »

Adam Oliver Brown

Science Lecturer
Assistant professor
Faculty of Science
Biology

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6308)
Cell: 613-558-2326
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I am an ecologist with an expertise in science communication to the general public, the public understanding of science, the scholarship of teaching and learning Science, as well as working to develop effective teaching techniques and technologies to help students learn Biology at the undergraduate level of University. I have also been involved in the production, scripting and hosting of TV and radio shows and documentaries (CBC The Nature of Things, TVOkids Finding Stuff Out & The Prime Radicals).

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CLARK, Ian D. »

Ian D. CLARK

Director of Geochemistry and Isotope Laboratories
Full professor
Faculty of Science
Earth Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6834)
Home: 613-595-2155
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Hydrogeology, with expertise in isotope hydrology – the use of isotopes as tracers of water and solute movement. The geochemistry and contamination of groundwater. Issues regarding the safe burial of nuclear waste and radionuclide transport in the environment. Study of past climates and the impacts of climate warming on hydrology in the Arctic.

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COPLAND, Luke »

Luke Copland

Associate professor
Faculty of Arts
Geography

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2826)
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My research focuses on improving our understanding of glacier dynamics and recent changes of ice masses, and their links to climate change. This involves making measurements using both satellite imagery and fieldwork. In recent years I have undertaken fieldwork in the Canadian High Arctic, Yukon, Antarctica and Himalayas.

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CRANDALL, Kirsten »

PhD student
Faculty of Science
Biology

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My research focuses on the ecological and environmental factors affecting ticks, vertebrate hosts, and pathogens (e.g., bacteria, virus, etc) of the tick-borne disease system in Canada. I use a wide variety of methods including meta-analyses, field surveys and experiments, genetic analyses, and remote sensing analyses.

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DAWSON, Jackie »

Canada Research Chair in Environment, Society and Policy
Associate professor
Faculty of Arts
Geography

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Cell: 8184523459
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Dr Dawson's expertise is on the human and policy dimensions of environmental change with a strong focus on the implications of climate change and economic development for the Arctic shipping and tourism sectors. She leads several projects examining Arctic shipping trends, marine shipping governance and policy, climate change impacts and adaptation, and local marine use and transportation needs. She works closely with coastal communities in Arctic Canada, shipping industry stakeholders, and government departments involved in the Arctic marine transportation sector. You can find out more about her research and her research lab at www.espg.ca

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DELACROIX, Celine »

Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Health Sciences
Interdisciplinary School of Health sciences

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Office: 6137102282
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Céline Delacroix focuses on analyzing how the linkages between family planning, population growth, and environmental sustainability are perceived and could be harnessed to strengthen reproductive rights and improve environmental sustainability. She studies how to address these sensitive questions in a fair and acceptable manner.

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DESROCHERS, André »

Chair
Associate professor
Faculty of Science
Earth Sciences

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André Desrochers is a researcher at the University of Ottawa who has worked for more than thirty years on Anticosti Island's sedimentary basin. His research projects seek to understand the Earth's fossil records, particularly those of Anticosti Island and the Mingan Archipelago. In connection with a possible oil production project on Anticosti Island, he has recently undertaken research on natural connectivity between aquifers deep in methane-rich saline and the surface.

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ELGIE, Stewart »

Stewart Elgie

Professor
Associate professor
Faculty of Law
Common Law

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Office: 613-562-5800 (2525)
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Environmental / natural resources law and policy, including forests, wildlife (species), parks, pollution, and climate change / global warming (Kyoto). Environmental economics, and economic approaches to environmental protection (especially for climate change). The Constitution and the environment. Aboriginal rights and the environment. International trade and the environment (NAFTA).

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FALL, Mamadou »

Mamadou Fall

PhD
Associate professor
Faculty of Engineering
Civil Engineering

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6558)
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Mine waste, nuclear waste, landslide, geotechnical engineering, landfill.

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FORTIN, Danielle »

Danielle FORTIN

Dr.
Full professor
Faculty of Science
Earth Sciences

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Office: 562-5800 (6423)
Home: 613-244-1151
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Geomicrobiology: interactions between bacteria-metals-rocks in natural environments, such mining environments and deep-sea vents. Characterization of biogenic minerals: can they be used as indicators of past and present life in Earth and on Mars?

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FOWLER, Anthony D. »

Anthony D. FOWLER

Associate professor
Faculty of Science
Earth Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6273)
Home: 613-445-3528
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Deciphering patterns in minerals and rocks; information about frequency of volcano eruptions or formation of ore deposits.

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GAJEWSKI, Konrad »

Full professor
Faculty of Arts
Geography

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1057)
Office: 613-562-5800 (1327)
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Climate change and the impacts of climate change on ecosystems, especially northern Canada. Reconstructing past climates (last 20,000 years) using fossils in lake sediments.

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GARDEZI, Maaz »

Visiting professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Sociology

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Research interests: climate change adaptation in developing countries; climate, food, and water security; risk and resilience; advanced statistical methods

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HIMICK, Darlene »

Associate professor
Telfer School of Management

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I currently research the range of positions that investors take to respond to climate. These include incorporating ESG in their investment policies, engaging with companies, or divesting from fossil fuels entirely. I am currently involved on a large project about the fossil fuel divestment movement, comprised of students, faculty, and other activists worldwide who promote the exit from carbon intensive industries, in large institutional investors like pension funds, universities, and governments. I examine the range of responses to this movement, from doing nothing, to adopting a net-zero approach, all the way to committing to divest from energy companies.

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KATZ-ROSENE, Ryan »

Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 X1716
Cell: 819-431-8740
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My research focuses on climate change governance and sustainability policy debates. In particular: high-speed rail development in Canada; low-carbon transportation in Canada; global aviation and climate governance (CORSIA); nuclear power and climate change; sustainable livestock; cows or cattle and climate change; methane and climate change; regenerative agriculture and climate change; sustainable protein; plant-based proteins; protein transition; "green growth" and "degrowth" and the environment.

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KOPPEL, Olga »

PhD student
Faculty of Science
Biology

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Cell: 8736882337
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My work focuses on the impact of climate change and land use change on bumblebee species in North America.

I'm passionate about biodiversity conservation, and spatial modelling and coding are my tools of choice. 

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LAGUË, Claude »

Dean
Full professor
Faculty of Engineering

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6175)
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Academic leadership Engineering education Engineering of agricultural machinery systems Environmental impacts of agricultural activities and operations

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LEWKOWICZ, Antoni »

Antoni LEWKOWICZ

Dean of the Faculty of Arts / Doyen de la Faculté des arts
Full professor
Faculty of Arts
Geography

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Office: 613-562-5705
Home: 613-230-7647
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I am an expert on the effects of climate warming on polar regions, especially on permafrost, the landscape, and northerners. I currently work in the Yukon and the Canadian High Arctic on subjects such as measuring recent changes in permafrost temperatures, predicting current permafrost distribution and rates of thaw, and landsliding. This research is relevant to hazard prediction and the development of roads and pipelines, as well as adaptation to climate change in the North. I am currently Senior Vice-President of the International Permafrost Association and will become President in 2012.

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NISTOR, Ioan »

Full Professor
Full professor
Faculty of Engineering
Civil Engineering

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6147)
Cell: 613-298-8197
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Fluid Dynamics, Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport, Numerical Methods in Hydraulics, Design of Ports and Coastal Protection Works, Coastal Zone Management, Hydrotechnical Constructions (dams, dikes, spillways, derivation works, pumping stations), Dam Safety Analysis, Flooding Prevention and Control, Hydrologic Studies, Tsunamis and storm surges

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PLOEGER, Kate »

PhD Student
Faculty of Arts
Geography

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My research focus is earthquakes in Ottawa including wide range of scenarios/damage projections (specifically building damage and casualties) for downtown Ottawa. Earthquake loss estimations.

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RAMISCH, Joshua »

Joshua Ramisch

Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4421)
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Food security, agriculture, food policy, food aid, peasant farming, globalization, international development, development project management, African environmental issues, African social change, Kenya, Mali, Uganda, Tanzania, NGOs in Africa.

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REIS, Giuliano »

Associate professor
Faculty of Education

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4497)
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My research interests include science and environmental education in diverse learning settings, science and the environment in the media, public understanding of science, teacher education, qualitative research and discourse analysis.

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RIVERS, Nicholas »

Canada Research Chair in Climate and Energy Policy
Assistant professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

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Office: 613-562-5800 (4676)
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ROBIN, Michel J.L. »

Assistant professor
Faculty of Science
Earth Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6852)
Home: 819-682-3636
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Étude des eaux souterraines, écoulements et contamination.

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SAAVEDRA-VARGAS, Marcelo »

Professor
Part-time professor
Faculty of Arts
History

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Cell: 613-762-7822
Home: 613-837-0058
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Indigenous perspectives, indigenous cosmovisions, indigenous epistemologies, development, globalization, sustainable development, indigenous governance

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English and French , Spanish

SAWADA, Michael Charles »

Michael Charles Sawada

Associate Professor Geographic Information Systems and Geomatics
Associate professor
Faculty of Arts
Geography

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1040)
Office: 613-562-5800 (2293)
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My main field of research is applied Geomatics. Geomatics consists of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS), Global Positioning systems(GPS), Spatial Analysis, Cartography, and Geodesy. Like information systems in general, geomatics is an enabling science that extends the IT model into the geographic realm with techniques and methods applicable to almost every conceivable discipline. For example, I currently have active projects in fields including: disaster mapping of tsunami devestated regions in the Bay of Bengal, health geography/epidimiology, wireless telecommunications, precision agriculture, and Quaternary climate change among others. Geomatics underlies our everyday activities as the science is used for both the planning and management of anything that exists in geographic space.

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SEIDOU, Ousmane »

Assistant professor
Faculty of Engineering
Civil Engineering

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6143)
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Hydrological modelling; Extreme events; Climate change and water; Adaptation to climate change.

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SIMARD, Louis »

Louis Simard

Professor
Associate professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Political Studies

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Office: 613-562-5800 (1958)
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Public policies, environment, energy, public participation, instruction of public action

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Français seulement

TEZEL, F. Handan »

F. Handan Tezel

Professor
Full professor
Faculty of Engineering
Chemical and Biological Engineering

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Office: 613-562-5800 Ext. 6107
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Adsorption for Gas and Liquid Separation Applications. Carbon Capture and Recycle. Energy Storage for Solar Energy and Excess Thermal Energy Applications. Environmental Engineering. Nanomaterials. Production of Bio-Fuels (bio-ethanol and Bio-butanol) from Agricultural By-Products Renewable Energy. Sustainable Development.

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VEIZER, Jan »

Distinguished University Professor
Full professor
Faculty of Science
Earth Sciences

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Office: 613-562-5800 (6461)
Home: 613-741-9801
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Earth, life, oceans, atmosphere, resources and environment evolved on a geological time scale. Lessons this knowledge has for present environment issues.

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English only, allemand, slovaque, tchèque / German, Slovak, Czech

YANG, Lihu »

Visiting professor
Faculty of Science
Earth Sciences

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Cell: 343-777-6616
Home: 343-777-6616
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E-mail

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(1) Interaction between surface water and groundwater in the Huaihe River using multi-traces, such as hydrogen and oxygen isotopes, tritium isotope and CFCs. (2) Water and nitrogen cycle in surface water and groundwater. (3) Experimental field station construction and management.

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