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.

Professor and Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies)

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.54488 Room: ECBL 2240

Email: rhallett@uoguelph.ca

Office: EC Bovey Building

Keywords: integrated pest management, biological control, invasive insect species, insect-plant interactions, insect population dynamics

Communications Officer/Instructor

Phone: +1 519 824 4120 ext. 58132

Email: shaerri@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall, Room 205

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Professor

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.52450 Room: ALEX 140

Email: rheck@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall

Keywords: pedology, soil morphology, micromorphology, computed tomography, magnetic susceptibility

Professor

Phone: (519) 986-1475

Email: shilts@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall

Professor

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.52753

Email: thsiang@uoguelph.ca

Office: Edmund C Bovey Building: Room 3227

Keywords: turfgrass diseases, forest pathology, fungal genomics

Phone: 519-824-4120 ext 52987

Email: sjordan@uoguelph.ca

Office: ALEX 112

Professor Emeritus (College)

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.52147

Email: nkaushik@uoguelph.ca

Staff Apiarist

Phone: (519) 836-8897

Email: pgkelly@uoguelph.ca

University Professor Emeritus

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.52479

Email: pkevan@uoguelph.ca

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Phone: 1-905-381-5431

Email: lknopper@uoguelph.ca

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Associate Professor

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext. 56868

Email: skrayenh@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall Room 108

Keywords: climate modelling, urban adaptation, trees

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Adjunct Professor

Email: slachanc@uoguelph.ca

Office: Collège La Cité, 801 Aviation Parkway, Ottawa, Ontario.

Keywords: natural insecticides, essential oils, pest flies, organic production

Associate Professor

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.52459 Room: ALEX 219

Email: lauzonj@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall

Keywords: soil science, soil fertility, soil management, nutrient management

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.54844

Email: jlawson@uoguelph.ca

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University Professor Emeritus

Email: hlee@uoguelph.ca

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Assistant Professor

Phone: Room: ALEX 307

Email: jlongsta@uoguelph.ca

Office: ALEXANDER HALL

Keywords: environmental chemistry, natural organic matter, soil and groundwater contamination, remediation, analytical instrumentation

Assistant Professor / Department of Integrative Biology

Email: amacdo02@uoguelph.ca

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Email: tmafaatt@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall, Room 323

Keywords: microbial ecology, soil microbiology, below-ground interactions, greenhouse gas emissions, functional ecology

Email: emagnuso@uoguelph.ca

Keywords: aerobiology, extremophiles, cryomicrobiology, microbial ecology

University Professor Emeritus

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.52720 Room: ECBL 1211

Email: samarsha@uoguelph.ca

Keywords: insect diversity, systematics and biology of acalyptrate Diptera, faunistics, taxonomy

University Professor Emeritus

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.52488

Email: pmartini@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall

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Professor and Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Waterborne Pathogens: Surveillance, Prediction and Mitigation

Phone: +61 (0) 400 634 365

Email: david.mccarthy@uoguelph.ca

Office: Room 121, Alexander Hall, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Keywords: Urban water systems, Biosurveillance, Pathogen monitoring, Stormwater management, water quality

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Research Project Manager (Learning from the Lands)

Email: pmeighan@uoguelph.ca

Professor Emeritus (College)

Email: jmmiller7@sympatico.ca

MSc Graduate Student

Email: jminigan@uoguelph.ca

Office: Bovey

Adjunct and Sessional Lecturer

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.53393

Email: gmorozov@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall

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Email: dasieloa@uoguelph.ca

Keywords: microbial ecology, eDNA barcoding, microbiome analysis, One Health

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Purchasing Clerk

Phone: 519-824-4120 Ext. 52712

Email: sesclerk@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall 264

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Professor Emeritus (College)

Phone: 519-837-0441

Email: gotis@uoguelph.ca

Associate Professor

Phone: (519) 674-1635 Ridgetown Campus

Email: iohallo@ridgetownc.uoguelph.ca

Keywords: nutrient management, phosphorus cycling, soil fertility, phosphorus loss mitigation

Curator of the Insect Collection

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.52582

Email: paieros@uoguelph.ca

Office: Bovey

Professor, NSERC Industrial Research Chair - Hydrogeology

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.53642

Email: bparker@uoguelph.ca

Office: School of Engineering, Room: 3503

Keywords: Water Resources Engineering

Associate Professor

Phone: (519) 824-4120 Ext.52452 Room: ALEX 135

Email: gparkin@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall

Graduate Program Assistant

Phone: 519-824-4120 Ext. 52514 

Email: lpoland@uoguelph.ca

Office: Alexander Hall Room 261

Chair in Indigenous Environmental Science and Assistant Professor

Email: poppj@uoguelph.ca

Keywords: Indigenous knowledge systems, wildlife ecology, two-eyed seeing