Adjunct Faculty

Bob Bailey

Adjunct Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Bioassessment of aquatic ecosystems, from the values and objectives that lead to initiation of a program, to its design, execution and interpretation of the information collected that leads to action

Rachel Bezner Kerr

Adjunct Research Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Globalization, agriculture and food; food security/food sovereignty; participatory research; sustainable agriculture; maternal and child nutrition; HIV/AIDS and food security; knowledge, science and participatory educational methods; Malawi; colonial history in southern Africa

Belinda Dodson

Adjunct Research Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Migration, gender, international development, Southern Africa

John Fleming

Adjunct Lecturer

Research Interests / Specializations: Urban development, city planning, environmental and ecological planning, heritage conservation

Michael Goodchild

Adjunct Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Geographic Information Science, spatial analysis, and uncertainty in geographic data

Robin Kearns

Adjunct Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Understanding the meanings and dynamics of places and their influence on human wellbeing. The downstream effects of policies and political practices on the cultural dynamics of places

Brian Luckman

Adjunct Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Alpine environments, dendrochronology, glacier fluctuations and Global Change. Holocene glacier fluctuations; Reconstruction of proxy climate for the last millennium (including Little Ice Age) using tree-ring width, density and isotopic composition and dendroglaciology/ dendrogeomorphology. Major regional interests in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and the Northern Canadian Cordillera. Reconstructing climate variability along the PEP-1 transect (Alaska-Tierra del Fuego) using tree-ring chronologies from treeline environments.

Jennie Massey

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Geographies of higher education, with special interests in access, retention and persistence

Heidi Swanson

Adjunct Research Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous health and environmental health, community engagement, food security, effects of climate change on aquatic food webs, mercury accumulation in Arctic lakes, the life history of lake trout and ecology of Arctic marine fish communities

Joshua Tobias

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Indigenous health, community based participatory research
Teaching: Western University, ON

Paul Van der Werf

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Environment, food waste prevention, food waste reduction, waste composition analysis, human geography, resource management

Colin H. Williams

Adjunct Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Ethnic relations, political geography, geolinguistics, comparative international law and minority rights, political philosophy and multiculturalism

Adam Yates

Adjunct Research Associate Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: Aquatic Ecosystems in Populated Landscapes; Development and Application of Ecological Assessment Methods for Aquatic Ecosystems; Watershed Description and Analysis