Research Chairs
Madhur Anand
University Research Chair in Sustainability Science
Research focus: coupled human-environment sustainability and global ecological change, effects of stress and disturbance on ecosystems including agricultural impacts, development of modelling and statistical approaches to understand complex ecological systems, forest ecology.
Kari Dunfield
Canada Research Chair in Environmental Microbiology (Tier 2)
Research focus: understanding of the environmental impact of agro-ecosystems by using DNA analysis to study living organisms in soils and water.
Ernesto Guzman
Pinchin Family Chair in Honey Bee Health
Research focus: honey bee diseases, causes of bee mortality and solutions to ensure healthy and productive bee populations
Nigel Raine
Rebanks Family Chair in Pollinator Conservation
Research focus: impacts of environmental stressors on bees, pollinator behaviour and pollination ecology
Cynthia Scott-Dupree
Bayer CropScience Chair in Sustainable Pest Management
Research focus: sustainable pest management, with focus on insect pests, impacts of agroecosystems on benefitial insects, environmental toxicology