Plant and Environmental Health
Faculty in the Plant and Environmental Health field study various topics in:
- plant biology
- plant pathology
- entomology
- integrated pest management
- epidemiology
- soil-plant interactions
- biotechnology
- molecular biology
- forest systems
- agroforestry, and
- climate change biology
Michael Dixon
Research interests: controlled environments, life support, space exploration
Brandon Gilroyed
Research interests: anaerobic digestion, biorefinery, fermentation, industrial crops, waste valorization
Paul Goodwin
Research interests: ginseng, tobacco, soil, bacteria, fungi, molecular biology
Thomas Graham
Research interests: controlled environment agriculture, space biology/exploration, medicinal crops, agricultural water remediation, food insecurity, food safety
Ernesto Guzman
Research interests: bee biology, bee pathology, bee behaviour, bee genetics, bee ecology
Marc Habash
Research interests: water quality, microbial source tracking, waterborne pathogens, microbial biofilms
Beverley Hale
Research interests: ecotoxicology, soil contaminants, soil remediation, metals, risk assessment
Rebecca Hallett
Research interests: integrated pest management, biological control, invasive insect species, insect-plant interactions, insect population dynamics
Tom Hsiang
Research interests: turfgrass diseases, forest pathology, fungal genomics
Ryan Prosser
Research interests: Mollusk biology, ecotoxicology, ecological risk assessment, aquatic toxicology, soil toxicology
Nigel Raine
Research interests: pollinator conservation, pollinator behaviour, impacts of environmental stressors on bees, pollination ecology
Cynthia Scott-Dupree
Research interests: sustainable pest management, entomology, ecotoxicology
Naresh Thevathasan
Research interests: agroforestry, soil health, water quality, carbon sequestration
Youbin Zheng
Research interests: cannabis production, controlled environment agriculture, greenhouse production, environmental horticulture