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Ph.D. student
Part-time professor
Faculty of Arts
Geography

Contact information:

Office: 613-979-3957
Cell: 613-979-3957
Home: 613-233-3957
E-mail: pbeckwit@uottawa.ca

Preferred method s of contact:

E-mail, Cell Telephone

Research information:

Climate Change Research - Abrupt Climate Change Research - Arctic temperature amplification - Arctic sea ice loss - methane emissions - extreme weather events - global food supply threats

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Aerosol physics
• Alternatives
• Biogeography
• Chaos theory
• Climate change
• Climatology
• Decision-making at the interface of science and policy
• Disaster impact on physical structures
• Ecology
• Efficiency
• Energy (electricity, oil, natural gas)
• Energy efficiency
• Environmental Communication
• Environmental migration
• Environmental science
• Food sustainability
• Geopolitics
• Glaciers and ice
• Global Warming
• Marine biology
• Paleoclimatology
• Permafrost
• Probability theory
• Quantum optics
• Science and Society
• Science education
• Solar Energy
• Statistics
• Sustainable development
• University Teaching

Language preference:

English only

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

Contact information:

Cell: 8184523459
E-mail: jackie.dawson@uottawa.ca
Website

Preferred method s of contact:

E-mail, Cell Telephone

Research information:

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

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Aboriginal Studies
• Climate change
• Decision-making at the interface of science and policy
• Economic development
• Environmental policy
• Glaciers and ice
• Global Warming
• Rural development
• Science and Society
• Sustainable development
• Sustainable development

Language preference:

English only

Full professor
Faculty of Arts
Geography

Contact information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (1061)
Cell: 613-220-7688
E-mail: msaner@uottawa.ca
Website

Preferred method s of contact:

E-mail, Cell Telephone

Research information:

The governance of emerging technologies, including ethics, risk management and regulation.  I have worked on GMOs, nanotechnology, biotechnology, synthetic biology, and biofuels.  My core focus is the science/policy interface: how evidence is used in decisions and how values and facts get combined in policy and decision-making (in particular in the environmental and health fields). 

Area(s) of expertise:

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• Applied ethics
• Decision-making at the interface of science and policy
• Governance
• Science and Society
• Technology

Language preference:

English only, German