Departmental Chair: Brian Driscoll
BASU, Niladri
Canada Research Chair in Environmental Health Sciences; Professor (cross-appointed to the School of Human Nutrition)
Exposure of humans and wildlife to toxic environmental chemicals, such as mercury; development, validation, and application of new approaches to rapidly test chemicals/samples for toxicity; global health focused on policy, environmental justice and the extractive sector.
T: 514-398-8642 | niladri.basu [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | CINE Building-Room 204
BENNETT, Elena
Professor (Joint-appointed to Bieler School of Environment); Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Sustainability Science
Sustainable use and management of biodiversity and ecosystem services; multi-functional landscapes; human impacts on biogeochemical cycles; management of tradeoffs among ecosystem services, especially agricultural production and water quality; global food security, agriculture and the SDGs, land use change and water quality; urban ecology; communicating science; scenarios
elena.bennett [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS2-062
BROWN, Peter G.
Professor, Bieler School of Environment (cross-appointed to NRS and Geography Department)
Practical uses of philosophy to think critically about the goals of society; deterioration of Earth’s life support capacity and the thought systems that facilitate and legitimate this decline; economics for the anthropocene.
T: 514-398-5421 | peter.g.brown [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS3-040
BUDDLE, Christopher M.
Associate Provost (Teaching and Academic Programs), McGill University; Professor
Ecology, biodiversity and natural history of insects and spiders, in forest, Arctic and agro-ecosystems.
T: 514-398-2291 | chris.buddle [at] mcgill.ca (Email)
CARDILLE, Jeffrey A.
Associate Professor (Joint-appointed to Bieler School of Environment)
Causes of landscape pattern change and the consequences of these changes on ecosystems, biodiversity, and the human world. Uses a combination of cloud computing, geographic information systems, and satellite imagery to understand the impacts on nature at local, regional, and continental scales.
T: 514-398-7902 | jeffrey.cardille [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS2-078
CÔTÉ, Benoit
Associate Professor
Eco-physiology of woody plant species. Relationships between soil fertility and hardwood forest species composition. Nutritional standards for hardwoods. Agroforestry.
T: 514-398-7952 | benoit.cote [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS2-067A
DOIDGE, Mary
Assistant Professor
Behavioural and experimental approach to agricultural economics; how farmers make economic decisions on their farms; land change and use change, crop insurance choices, conservation practice adoption, and climate change adaptation, applying behavioural theories. T: 514-398-2026 | mary.doidge [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS3-043
DRISCOLL, Brian T.
Associate Professor; Departmental Chair
Molecular genetics and biochemical studies of bacterial gene expression, focusing on genes of carbon metabolism in Sinorhizobium meliloti, the nitrogen-fixing symbiont of alfalfa.
T: 514-398-7887 | brian.driscoll [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS3-038
DUNPHY, Gary B.
Associate Professor
Virulence mechanisms of the bacterium Xenorhabdus in insects; insect immunity.
T: 514-398-7903 | gary.dunphy [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS3-066
ELLIOTT, Kyle B.
Assistant Professor; Canada Research Chair (Tier II) Chair in Arctic Ecology
Arctic ecology, evolutionary ecology of senescence, ornithology, birds, marine biology, wildlife conservation, ecophysiology, foraging behaviour, biodiversity.
T: 514-398-7907 | kyle.elliott [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS3-042
FAUCHER, Sébastien
Associate Professor
Genetics and evolution of water-borne pathogens. Biodiversity in water systems.
T: 514-398-7886 | sebastien.faucher2 [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS3-034
FYLES, James
Professor; George and Francis Tomlinson Chair in Forest Ecology
Forest bio-geochemistry. Relationships between plant nutrition, plant litter quality, litter decomposition and nutrient release, and soil nutrient dynamics. Management of forest soil fertility.
T:514-398-7758 | jim.fyles [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS2-079
GILLUNG, Jessica
Assistant Professor; Director, Lyman Entomological Museum
Entomology, biodiversity discovery, macroevolution, molecular phylogenetics, functional and comparative morphology, genomics and bioinformatics, statistical comparative methods.
T: 514-398-TBD | jessica.gillung [at] mcgill.ca (Email )| Centennial Centre, Room 16
HAROU, Aurélie
Assistant Professor
Improvement of household food security to reduce poverty and malnutrition in sustainable ways; measuring how economic, political and climatic shocks affect human welfare, nutrition and household consumption and production decisions.
T: 514-398-7826 | aurelie.harou [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS3-035
HEAD, Jessica
Assistant Professor
Genetic and epigenetic factors underlying responses to environmental contaminants in birds and other wildlife.
T: 514-398-7841 | jessica.head [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS3-045
HICKEY, Gordon M.
William Dawson Scholar; Professor
Sustainable natural resource management, policy and governance; environmental monitoring and assessment; community-based development; participatory approaches; innovation systems; forests, fisheries and food.
T: 514-398-7214 | gordon.hickey [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS2-081
HUMPHRIES, Murray M.
Associate Professor; McGill Northern Research Chair; Director, Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment
Mammalogy. Mammal energetics, behaviour, and ecology, especially in relation to hibernation, food and fat storage, and life histories.
T: 514-398-7885 | murray.humphries [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS3-067 and CINE Building, Room 207
KALLENBACH, Cynthia
Assistant Professor
Application of soil microbial ecology, biodiversity and biogeochemistry to understand how soil carbon and nutrient cycling is affected by agricultural management and global change
T: 514-398-8640 | cynthia.kallenbach [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS2-064
KOSOY, Nicolas
Associate Professor (Joint-appointed to Bieler School of Environment)
Markets for ecosystem services from an institutional economics perspective, critical analyses of commodification of nature, Ecological economic.
T: 514-398-7944 | nicolas.kosoy [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS3-037
McCOURT, George
Senior Faculty Lecturer, McGill School of Environment
Markets for ecosystem services from an institutional economics perspective, critical analyses of commodification of nature, Ecological economic. Student Centered Research and Learning methodologies; Sustainable urban systems related to water, waste and energy flows; Geosystems and past and present climate change.
T: 514-398-7550 | george.mccourt [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Rowles House
McKINNEY, Melissa
Canada Research Chair in Ecological Change and Environmental Stressors, Assistant Professor
Advanced chemical tracer approaches in marine mammals, as sentinels of ecosystem change, to evaluate fundamental questions about habitat use and feeding habits. Interaction between ecological changes and other anthropogenic stressors facing biota, particularly pollutants, pathogens, and parasites, and the cumulative effects of these stressors on individual and population health and biodiversity.
T: 514-398-8714 | melissa.mckinney [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS3-044
ROY, Denis
Assistant Professor
Ecology and evolution of fish and wildlife in relation to their use and sustainability as natural resources – adaptive divergence, population genetics/genomics and the use, refinement and development of bioinformatics protocols and techniques. Adaptive dynamics of mostly marine and freshwater fish in both natural and increasingly disturbed ecosystems. Arctic marine fish ecology and evolution.
T: 514-398-8026 | denis.roy5 [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS2-071
STRACHAN, Ian B.
Associate Dean (Graduate Education); Associate Professor (cross-appointed to Geography Department)
The controls on trace gas exchange (e.g. CO2) between ecosystems and the atmosphere – especially those ecosystems that have been modified or are managed through human activity.
T: 514-398-7935 | ian.strachan [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS2-076
THOMASSIN, Paul
Professor
Environmental and resource economics; economic-ecological macroeconomic modeling, non-market valuation of environmental goods, natural capital and wealth accounts, input-output modelling, climate change and its impact on agriculture, carbon trading, carbon offset markets, pollution abatement and agriculture, behavioural risk factors and the social determinants of health for non-communicable diseases, alternative energy, and life cycle analysis.
T: 514-398-7956 | paul.thomassin [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS3-032
WHALEN, Joann
James McGill Professor; Professor
Soil fertility and on-farm nutrient management planning. Soil organic matter dynamics, carbon sequestration and greenhouse gases in agricultural systems. Soil microorganisms and earthworms, their interactions and contributions to nutrient cycling and plant growth in agro-ecosystems. Biodiversity.
T: 514-398-7943 | joann.whalen [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS2-069
WHYTE, Lyle G.
Canada Research Chair in Polar Microbiology, Professor
Polar microbial ecology and biodiversity, cold-adapted microorganisms, low temperature biodegradation and bioremediation. Molecular microbial ecology, environmental genomics.
T: 514-398-7889 | lyle.whyte [at] mcgill.ca (Email) | Macdonald-Stewart Building, MS3-036