Our People

To learn more about the faculty's specific research areas, please consult their profile pages or go to our research section to search by research category.

We have over 100 technical staff supporting the school at any given time.  We have listed here permanent technical staff that work for the school.  Additional technical staff tied to research programs, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows can be found by using the University of Guelph directory.

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Email: abayaa@uoguelph.ca

Office: Bovey Building Room 3116

Keywords: ginseng, replant disease, Ilyonectria mors-panacis, phytohormones, RNA-Seq

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Email: genevieve.ali@mcgill.ca

Keywords: Process hydrology,  Complex systems science,  Environmental modelling

Professor

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.56254

Email: manand@uoguelph.ca

Office: Bovey Building Room 2241

Keywords: global ecological change, sustainability science, forest ecology, ecological modelling, biodiversity

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Associate Professor and Assistant Dean OAC (Graduate Programs)

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.58087

Email: earnaud@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall Room 126

Keywords: glacial geology, sedimentary geology, environmental geology

Adjunct Professor

Office: Applied Mathematics and a University Research Chair University of Waterloo

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OAC Chair in Soils and Precision Agriculture, Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator

Phone: +1 519 824 4120 Ext. 54249

Email: biswas@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall, Room 135

Keywords: sustainable soil management, soil health, carbon sequestration, digital and precision agriculture, digital soil mapping, proximal soil sensing, remote sensing, big data analytics, soil physics, soil spatial variability, vadose zone hydrology

Professor Emeritus (College)

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.52755

Email: gboland@uoguelph.ca

Office: Bovey Building

MES Program Advisor/Instructor

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.54266

Email: kbolton@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall, Room 260

Post DoctoralFellow

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext. 54801

Email: sbrown06@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall

Instructor/Support Technician

Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 53393

Email:  alysonb@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall, Room 221

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Office: Research Scientist Biological Control Vineland Research and Innovation Centre

Professor Emeritus (College)

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.52457

Email: wcheswor@uoguelph.ca

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Assistant Professor

Email: schiblow@uoguelph.ca

Keywords: Indigenous knowledge systems, Indigenous law, Indigenous governance, women's knowledge, water

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Email: chitraiv@uoguelph.ca

Office: 101, Agronomy Building, Ridgetown

Keywords: Organic wastes utilization, bioenergy, anaerobic digestion, pre-treatment of lignocellulose material, biogas

Portrait of Dr. Catherine Dieleman. She is wearing a hat, sunglasses, a pink scarf and a blue shirt and is standing next to a waterway

Assistant Professor

Email: cdielema@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall Room 220

Keywords: Organic soil biogeochemistry, ecosystem ecology, northern disturbance regimes, carbon quantity and quality, boreal forest resilience, peatlands

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University Professor Emeritus / Director, Controlled Environment Systems Research Facility

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.52555 Room: ECBL 1213

Email: mdixon@uoguelph.ca

Office: E.C. Bovey

Keywords: controlled environments, life support, space exploration

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Professor

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.58088 Room: ALEX 306

Email: dunfield@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall

Keywords: environmental microbiology, microbial ecology, soil microbiology, bioremediation

Professor

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.53017

Email: levans@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall

Email: sfatholo@uoguelph.ca

Keywords: digital soil mapping, remote sensing, soil moisture modeling

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Assistant Professor

Phone: 519-824-4120 x52075

Email: agilles@uoguelph.ca

Office: ALEX 225

Keywords: soil biochemistry, organic matter chemistry, soil health, carbon modelling, environmental spectroscopy, digital soil mapping

Associate Professor

Phone: (519) 674-1500 Ext.63605 Ridgetown Campus

Email: bgilroye@uoguelph.ca

Keywords: anaerobic digestion, biorefinery, fermentation, industrial crops, waste valorization

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Associate Professor

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.52453 Room: ALEX 321

Email: glasauer (at) uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall

Keywords: wetlands, biogeochemistry, metals, microbiology, soil chemistry

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Professor

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.52754

Email: pgoodwin@uoguelph.ca

Office: Bovey Building Room 3239

Keywords: bacteria, fungi, ginseng, molecular biology, plant microbiology

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Assistant Professor

Email: goordial@uoguelph.ca

Office: Bovey Building

Keywords: environmental microbiology, extremophiles, polar microbiology, astrobiology, climate change

University Professor Emeritus

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.52415 Room: ALEX 121C

Email: agordon@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext. 58548

Email: agradish@uoguelph.ca

Office: Bovey

Assistant Professor

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext. 54869

Email: tgraham@uoguelph.ca

Office: Bovey Bldg., Rm 2105

Keywords: controlled environment agriculture, space biology/exploration, medicinal crops, agricultural water remediation, food insecurity, food safety

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Undergraduate Program Assistant

Phone: 519-824-4120 Ext. 53565

Email: sesugrad@uoguelph.ca

Office: Bovey Building 1108

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Professor and Director of the Honey Bee Research Centre/ Pinchin Fam. Chair in Honey Bee Health

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.53609

Email: eguzman@uoguelph.ca

Office: Edmund C Bovey Building: Room 3241

Keywords: bee biology, bee pathology, bee behaviour, bee genetics, bee ecology

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Associate Professor

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.52748 Room: ECBL 3238

Email: mhabash@uoguelph.ca

Office: Edmund C. Bovey

Keywords: water quality, microbial source tracking, waterborne pathogens, microbial biofilms

Head shot of Beverly.

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.54809

Email: bhale@uoguelph.ca

Office: Johnson Hall Room 166

Keywords: ecotoxicology, soil contaminants, soil remediation, metals, risk assessment

Professor Emeritus (College)

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.53631

Email: rhall@uoguelph.ca