GLOBAL WATER FUTURES - Key Persons


Aaron Berg

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph

Aaron Vandenhoff

Job Titles:
  • Technician

Al Pietroniro

Job Titles:
  • Director, Environment and Climate Change Canada - Water and Climate Services
  • Executive Director, National Hydrological Service, Meteorological Service of Canada & Adjunct Professor, University of Saskatchewan
Dr. Pietroniro is the Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Alfred Gamble

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Alison Blay-Palmer

Job Titles:
  • GWF Project: Northern Water Futures

Alistair Wallace

Job Titles:
  • Lab Manager
  • Manager - Smart Water Systems Laboratory ( SWSL )
Alistair has degrees from the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. He has spent many years surveying glaciers throughout the western cordillera. His graduate work focused on historical volumetric change of glaciers in the Rocky Mountains. For the past 17 years Alistair has worked at Teledyne Optech, an industry-leading LiDAR manufacturing company. During this time, he has worked in project management, product development, and sensor integration for the airborne business unit.

Altaf Arain

Job Titles:
  • Professor, School of Geography & Earth Sciences

Amber Peterson

Job Titles:
  • Data Manager

Ana Snidherhan

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Andrea Lister

Job Titles:
  • Lead

Andrea Rowe

As Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion specialist for the Global Water Futures prgram, Andrea is passionate about helping us create internal structures that support our broader external objectives, drive innovation, and foster engagement. Andrea brings extensive experience in academia, the public and the private sector to this role. Andrea is one of the original Co-Founders at Feminuity, a Toronto based consulting firm established at the MaRS discovery district specializing in equity, diversity, and inclusion in the tech sector. Andrea holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Public Policy from McMaster University and a Mitacs Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University.

Andrea Scott

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Systems Design Engineering

Andrew Applejohn

Job Titles:
  • Senior Science Advisor, Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories

Andrew Doxey

Job Titles:
  • Department of Biology

Angela Bedard-Haughn

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Department Head, College of Agriculture and Bioresources - Department of Soil Science

Anthony Jakeman

Job Titles:
  • Director, Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management ( ICAM ) Centre, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
  • Professor
Tony Jakeman is Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society and Director of the Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management (iCAM) Centre, The Australian National University. He has been an Environmental Modeller with the ANU for over 35 years and has over 400 publications in the open literature, half of these in refereed international journals. He has been a principlal supervisor to over 60 graduated PhD students. Since 1997 he has also directed the iCAM Centre pursuing methods and applications of integrated assessment and decision support on water resource issues. He leads the Integration and Decision Support Program of the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training. Other scientific and organisational activities include: Honorary Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Modelling and Software (Elsevier); Foundation and Past President, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society; Past President, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, Inc.; Vice-President, International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation; Board of Directors, The Integrated Assessment Society; and regularly a member of scientific advisory committees of international conferences. In 2011 he received the Silver Medal of Masaryk University for contributions to environmental modelling and software. In 2012 he was awarded the Ray Page Lifetime Achievement Award from Simulation Australia. In 2015 he was listed as a Highly-Cited Researcher by Thomson-Reuters (top 1%, computer science), and also awarded an inaugural Lifetime Membership of the Modellling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand. In 2016 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

Armaghan Salehian

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Barb Katzenback

Job Titles:
  • Department of Biology

Blanca Jimenez Cisneros

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Division of Water Sciences UNESCO
Ms. Blanca Jimenez Cisneros was born in Mexico and holds a Degree on Environmental Engineering specialized in water from the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana; a Master´s and a Doctorate (Water and Wastewater Treatment) from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquees (INSA) in Toulouse, France. Among her most outstanding positions, she has been President of the International Water Association in Mexico; Vice President of the Mexican Academy of Sciences; Professional Development Coordinator at the Mexican Institute of Water Technology (IMTA); Deputy Director of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering Institute of National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM); President of the College of Environmental Engineers of Mexico and the Mexican National Engineering and Environmental Sciences. At the international level, Ms. Jimenez Cisneros was a Senior Expert Consultant to the Governments of Argentina, Ecuador, Guatemala, India, Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain and South Africa in wide range of issues including the formation of national wastewater treatment programmes, water re-use; as well as co-Chair of the Inter-American Network of Academic Sciences and member of the Executive Committee of the International Water Association. She has closely collaborated with IHP initiatives in our region, especially with those related with urban waters, area that she has a clear commitment and with Aqua-LAC Scientific Journal, both as author of published articles and as a reviewer. She has received several awards, the most remarkable being the Global Water Award of the International Water Association (2010); the National Prize of Sciences and Arts in Engineering (2009); the Award of the National University in Technological Innovation (2008); Nobel Peace Prize for her participation in the 4th IPCC Report on climate change (2007); National Environmental Merit Award (2006) and The Royal Order of the Polar Star (2002) delivered by His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden.

Bob Clark

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist, CWF & Adjunct Professor, University of Saskatchewan

Bram Noble

Job Titles:
  • Professor, College of Arts and Science - Department of Geography and Planning

Brent McKnight

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, DeGroote School of Business

Brent Wolfe

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Geography and Environmental Studies NSERC Northern Research Chair

Brian Ingalls

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics

Brian Menounos

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Geography, University of Northern British Columbia

Bridget Rusk

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Bruce Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Technician

Bruce MacVicar

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Bryan Tolson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Cal Hamm - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Finance
Cal holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan and a CMA (CPA) designation. Cal has worked with various units across the University as a Senior Strategic Business Advisor and most recently supported the Vice-President Research (OVPR). Prior to joining the University, Cal worked at Federated Co-operatives Limited as well as North Prairie Developments. Cal helps lead the GIWS finance team and serves as part of the GWF secretariat.

Carl Gutwin

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
  • Professor, College of Arts and Science - Department of Computer Science

Carolyn Ren

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Casey Beel

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Associate

Chanchal Roy

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, College of Arts and Science - Department of Computer Science

Chang-qing Xu

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Engineering Physics

Charles-François de Lannoy

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor Department of Chemical Engineering

Charmaine Dean

Job Titles:
  • Vice - President, Research and Professor
Charmaine Dean is Vice-President, Research and Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo. Her research interest lies in the development of methodology for disease mapping, longitudinal studies, the design of clinical trials, and spatio-temporal analyses. Much of this work has been motivated by direct applications to important practical problems in biostatistics and ecology. Her current main research applications are in survival after coronary artery bypass surgery, mapping disease and mortality rates, forest ecology, fire management, smoke exposure estimation from satellite imagery, and modeling of temporary and intermittent stream flow for flood analysis and predictions.

Cherie Westbrook

Job Titles:
  • Professor, College of Arts and Science - Department of Geography & Planning

Chris DeBeer

Job Titles:
  • Science Manager, Global Water Futures ( GWF ) & International Network for Alpine Research Catchment Hydrology ( INARCH )
Chris has worked as a research assistant and research associate at the Global Institute for Water Security and the Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan since 2010. He managed and contributed scientifically to the Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN; 2013-2018) and has served as Science Manager for GWF since 2016 and INARCH since 2017. His education background includes a B.Sc. (honours) degree in Physical Geography from the University of Saskatchewan (2004), an M.Sc. in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Alberta (2006), and a Ph.D. in Hydrology from the University of Saskatchewan (2012). Chris is interested in mountains and snow and glacier hydrology, as well as changes in snow and glaciers. Research publications are available here: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=120busUAAAAJ&hl=en.

Chris Parsons

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor

Chris Spence

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Christina Smeaton

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Christy Morrissey

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

Claude Duguay

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Lead
  • University Research Chair and Associate Dean, Research

Claudia Pahl-Wostl

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor for Resources Management and Director of the Institute for Environmental Systems Research
Claudia Pahl-Wostl is professor for resources management and director of the Institute for Environmental Systems Research at the University of Osnabrück, Germany, and co-chair of the Global Water System Project (www.gwsp.org). Her major research interests are adaptive, multi-level governance and management of water resources, social and societal learning and their role in sustainability transformations, and conceptual and methodological frameworks to analyze social-ecological systems. She is (co)author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals, chapters in edited books, policy briefs and popular reports. Her emphasis on interdisciplinary and community-building work is reflected in her role as editor of three books and twelve special issues in peer reviewed journals.

Colin McCarter

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Colin Robertson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies Director, Cold Regions Research Centre

Colin Whitefield

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

Colleen Sklar

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Winnipeg Metropolitan Region

Constantine Samaan

Job Titles:
  • Department of Pediatrics

Dan Sandink

Job Titles:
  • Director of Research, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction

David Barrett

Job Titles:
  • Technician

David Rudolph

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Lead
  • Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Professor, Groundwater ( Interim Chair ), University of Waterloo
Professor Rudolph was named the 2013 Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer in Ground Water Science by the US National Groundwater Association, one of the most prestigious career awards in this field.

Debajyoti Mondal

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Science - Department of Computer Science

Deborah MacLatchy

Job Titles:
  • President and Vice - Chancellor Professor, Biology

Debra Shewfelt

Job Titles:
  • Co - President of RESPEC Consulting Inc

Dennis Lettenmaier

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Derek Gray

Job Titles:
  • Biology

Derek Robinson

Job Titles:
  • Geography and Environmental Management

Diane Giroux

Job Titles:
  • Akaitcho Territory Government

Dr. Alain Pietroniro

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director of Environment
Dr. Alain Pietroniro is the Executive Director of Environment and Climate Change Canada's (ECCC) National Hydrology Research Centre (Saskatoon, SK) and an Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan. He Graduated with distinction from the Agricultural Engineering program at McGill University and completed his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Waterloo. Dr. Pietroniro is Canadian Delegate to the WMO Commission on Hydrology and a registered professional engineer in Saskatchewan. He is currently contributing to the ECCC's Hydrology Research Program with a major research focus on environmental remote sensing.

Dr. Baljit Singh

Job Titles:
  • Vice - President Research, University of Saskatchewan

Dr. Gary Carriere

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Dr. Helen Baulch

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
  • Faculty Lead
  • Member With the Global Institute for Water Security
Dr. Helen Baulch is a faculty member with the Global Institute for Water Security where she leads research focused on water quality, nutrient management and cyanobacteria. She works on solutions to common water quality issues, often in collaboration with government, producers and water treatment plant operators.

Dr. Henry David (Hank) Venema

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer and Senior Engineer at Strategic Systems Engineering Inc

Dr. Jay Famiglietti

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Global Institute for Water Security
  • Research Chair

Dr. John Pomeroy

Job Titles:
  • Dept. of Geography
  • Director, Global Water Futures Programme
  • Faculty Lead

Dr. Jonathan Newman

Job Titles:
  • Vice - President Research, Wilfrid Laurier University

Dr. Karen Mossman

Job Titles:
  • Vice - President Research, McMaster University

Dr. Khaled Akhtar

Job Titles:
  • River Forecast Engineer, Government of Alberta

Dr. Matthew Lindsay

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Science - Department of Geological Sciences
Dr. Matthew Lindsay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan and the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Mine Closure Geochemistry. Lindsay and his research team examine how coupled biogeochemical and geohydrological processes influence the chemical composition of terrestrial waters. Their research focuses on mass-transfer reactions at environmental interfaces in dynamic systems, where complex process interactions often produce non-intuitive outcomes.

Dr. Michelle Johnson-Jennings

Job Titles:
  • Professor, University of Washington Director, Environmentally Based Health & Land - Based Healing, IWRI

Dr. Monica Morrison

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Dr. Oliver M. Brandes

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director of the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance, University of Victoria 's Centre for Global Studies

Dr. Ram Yerubandi

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Dr. Stephen Stanley

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, Drainage Services, EPCOR

Dr. Stuart Slattery

Job Titles:
  • National Manager, Institute for Wetland and Wildfowl Research

Dustin Garrick

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Environmental and Resource Management, Oxford University

Edward Sudicky

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Elder Roland Duquette

Job Titles:
  • Elder

Emil Sekerinski

Job Titles:
  • Department of Computing

Eng. Sameer Dhalla

Job Titles:
  • Director, Development and Engineering Services, Toronto and Region Conservation ( TRCA )

Eric Kasischke

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Fereidoun Rezanezhad

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Francis Zwiers

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Director, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, University of Victoria ( PCIC / UVIC )

Fred Reibin

Job Titles:
  • Communications Coordinator
  • Communications Specialist
  • Artist
  • Communications Coordinator / Global Institute for Water Security
Fred Reibin is an artist, social entrepreneur and communications specialist, focusing on rebuilding relationships with the environment, culture, health, and innate human potential. Fred holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan, majoring in Marketing. He comes to GIWS from Unite Marketing Co-operative, a full-service marketing co-operative, which he was a founding member. Previously, Fred has worked as a Marketing Manager of Strategy for SaskTel and as a social enterprise advisor with Rise Life Management in Kingston, Jamaica. Fred is currently the Communications Coordinator for GIWS, focusing on GIWS, GWF and Let's Talk About Water initiatives. In addition to his work with GIWS, Fred is also R-YA 300hr Yoga teacher and Ayurvedic medicine practitioner, and cooks a wicked curry.

Gail Krantzberg

Job Titles:
  • Professor, W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology

Gopal Saha

Job Titles:
  • Data Manager

Gordon Oakes Red Bear

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Graham Strickert

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

Grant Ferguson

Job Titles:
  • Professor, College of Engineering - Department of Civil, Geological, & Environmental Engineering

Greg Slater

Job Titles:
  • Professor, School of Geography & Earth Sciences

Hadi Dhiyebi

Job Titles:
  • Technician

Hannah Koslowsky

Job Titles:
  • Technician

Heather Dixon

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Heather Jirousek

Job Titles:
  • Director, Yukon Water Resources Branch

Howard Wheater

Job Titles:
  • Expert
  • Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability & Department of Civil and Geological Engineering
  • Strategic Advisor, CERC Emeritus
Howard Wheater is a world expert in hydrological science and sustainable water resource management. He has extensive international experience studying and advising on flood, water resource and water quality issues. He is also vice-chair of the World Climate Research Programme's Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Project, and leads UNESCO's arid zone water resources program. Since relocating to Canada in October 2010, Wheater has been named Canada Excellence Research Chair in Water Security and Director, Global Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan. In addition, he has participated as a member of the Alberta's Provincial Environment Monitoring Panel and Chaired the Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel on Sustainable Management of Water in the Agricultural Landscapes of Canada. This latter role saw release of a report in February 2013 entitled Water and Agriculture in Canada: Towards Sustainable Management of Water Resources. Wheater is also a member of the Water Partner Advisory Committee to the Council of the Federation Water Stewardship Council, and currently sits on an International Court of Arbitration concerning the Indus Waters Treaty. Before arriving in Canada, Wheater served as professor of hydrology and director of the Environment Forum at the United Kingdom's Imperial College London. He holds a PhD in hydrology from Bristol University and a first-class degree in engineering science from the University of Cambridge. He is past president of the British Hydrological Society, is a fellow of the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Civil Engineers, and the American Geophysical Union, and he holds a life membership of the International Water Academy. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and six books, and has won several academic awards, including the prestigious Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water in 2006. Professor Wheater has extensive experience of training HQP. He has graduated more than 50 PhD students, and of the 14 PhD students graduating in the last six years, four now hold Faculty positions in universities world-wide, and seven more are in full-time research positions. Currently, the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Water Security supports six additional faculty, three undergraduate students, 31 graduate students, 15 post-doctoral fellows and 30 research and administrative staff. At Imperial he was, for 30 years, Director of the 12 month MSc programme in Hydrology, graduating many hundred HQP over that period.

Ian Martin

Job Titles:
  • Technician

Jamal Deen

Job Titles:
  • Department of Electrical

James Craig

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

James McGreer

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Jane Elliott

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Jason Venkiteswaran

Job Titles:
  • Geography and Environmental

Jeffrey McDonnell

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Lead
  • Professor, Global Institute for Water Security, School of Environment and Sustainability

Jeffrey McKenzie

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, McGill University

Jennifer Baltzer

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor, Biology and Canada Research Chair in Forests and Global Change
  • Faculty Lead

Jesse Witow

Job Titles:
  • Digital Services Coordinator / Global Institute for Water Security
  • Digital Services Coordinator for the Global Institute for Water Security
Jesse is the Digital Services Coordinator for the Global Institute for Water Security (GIWS), where he develops and implements digital communications initiatives on platforms such as web, mobile, and social media for both the GIWS and Global Water Futures (GWF). He previously worked with the Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching and Learning at USask, where he had done similar work in his role as Information and Communication Assistant. He also has a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, meaning he likes to talk and debate about hypothetical scenarios. A lot.

Jim Hendry

Job Titles:
  • Professor, College of Arts and Science - Department of Geological Sciences

Jimmy Lin

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Lead

Jing Chen

Job Titles:
  • Geography and Planning

Joe Boyce

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, School of Geography & Earth Sciences

Johanna Wandel

Job Titles:
  • Geography and Environmental Management

John Giesy

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences and Toxicology Centre
GWF Projects: Next Generation Solutions |‘Omic' and chemical fingerprinting methodologies using ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry for geochemistry and healthy waters

John Hanesiak

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba

Jonathan Price

Job Titles:
  • Geography and Environmental Management

Joni Onclin

Job Titles:
  • Executive
  • Research Assistant

Jules Blais

Job Titles:
  • Department of Biology

Julie Grant

Job Titles:
  • Communications Officer - Water Institute

Julie Theriault

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, University of Quebec at Montreal

Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability and Global Institute for Water Security

Karsten Liber

Job Titles:
  • Director & Professor, College of Arts and Science - Department of Toxicology

Kat Hartwig

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Living Lakes Canada

Kathryn Warden

Job Titles:
  • Director of Research Profile & Impact - VP Research Office ( Chair )

Katy Nugent

Job Titles:
  • Technician

Keegan Smith

Job Titles:
  • Technician

Kelly Munkittrick

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor, Biology and CAIP Research Chair in Ecosystem Health Assessment

Kelly Richard

Job Titles:
  • Geography and Environmental Management

Kevin Lamb

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Applied Mathematics

Kevin Schneider

Job Titles:
  • Lead
  • Professor, College of Arts and Science - Department of Computer Science

Kevin Shook

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow, College of Arts and Science - Department of Geography & Planning

Kevin Stevens

Job Titles:
  • Biology

Khan Wahid

Job Titles:
  • Professor, College of Engineering - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Kiana Zolfaghari

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Kieran Lehan

Job Titles:
  • Technician

Kim Elworthy

Job Titles:
  • Research Communications Officer

Kim Janzen

Job Titles:
  • Technician

Krysha Dukacz

Job Titles:
  • Data Manager

Laleh Moradi

Job Titles:
  • Research Data Analyst, University of Saskatchewan
Laleh earned a Masters in Mathematics from University of Saskatchewan and started working with GIWS as Data Management Assistant since 2014. After pursuing a degree in Data Science from University of California, Irvine, Laleh is now working as Research Data Analyst with GIWS and GWF since 2018. Laleh assists with all aspects of data management, analysis, policy, access and archiving for the research team like collection, organization and importing of environmental data into the data management system as well as maintain, develop, and integrate modules for web reporting on desktop and mobile platforms.

Laura Hug

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Winter Soil Processes in Transition

Lee Barbour

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Civil and Geological Engineering

Lori Dillon

Job Titles:
  • Manager - Research Communications

Marek Stastna

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Applied Mathematics

Marianne Vandergriendt

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Technician

Mark Ferguson - CCO

Job Titles:
  • Communications Specialist
  • Director of Communications
  • Director of Communications / Global Institute for Water Security
  • Media Inquiries
Mark Ferguson is a science communications professional focusing on societal and global issues with tremendous long-term implications. Mark holds a graduate degree in journalism from the University of King's College, a bachelor of arts from the University of Saskatchewan, and specialist training in science communication from the Banff Centre for the Arts. He has worked previously at the Canadian Light Source, Aga Khan Foundation, University of Saskatchewan, and as a journalist with CBC, Saskatoon StarPhoenix, and dozens of magazines and newspapers around the world. Mark is also an avid photographer and videographer. Mark helps lead the Global Water Futures communications efforts.

Mark Servos

Job Titles:
  • Department of Biology
  • Faculty Lead

Markus Brinkmann

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Markus Hecker

Job Titles:
  • Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability and Department of Toxicology
GWF Projects: ‘Omic' and chemical fingerprinting methodologies using ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry for geochemistry and healthy waters | Next Generation Solutions to Ensure Healthy Water Resources for Future Generations

Martyn Clark

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Centre for Hydrology and Coldwater Laboratory
  • Professor

Mary Kelly

Job Titles:
  • Chairman in Insurance Professor

Masaki Hayashi

Job Titles:
  • Department of Geoscience

Maureen Reed

Job Titles:
  • Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

Merrin Macrae

Job Titles:
  • Geography and Environmental Management

Michael English

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Lead
  • Geography and Environmental

Michael Pisaric

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Earth Sciences ( Brock University ) & Adjunct Professor ( McMaster University )

Michelle Martel-Andre

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources and Facilities, UofS
Michelle graduated from U of S with a degree in sociology, has a certificate in Human Resource Management from the University of Calgary and brings with her varied career experience in business, environmental consultancy and the law.

Mike Flannigan

Job Titles:
  • Professor, University of Alberta

Mike Waddington

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Lead
  • Research Chair ( Tier 1 ) in Ecohydrology

Myroslava Khomik

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate, Geography and Environmental Management

Nancy Doubleday

Job Titles:
  • Department of Philosophy

Nandita Basu

Job Titles:
  • University Research Chair

Niels Weiss

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Pat Chow-Fraser

Job Titles:
  • Biology

Patricia Gober

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus, College of Arts and Science - Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy

Patrick Cherneski

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Patrick Lloyd-Smith

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, College of Agriculture and Bioresources

Paul Craig

Job Titles:
  • Department of Biology
GWF Projects: Linking multiple stressors to adverse ecological responses across watersheds | Next Generation Solutions

Paul Jones

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability
GWF Projects: ‘Omic' and chemical fingerprinting methodologies using ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry for geochemistry and healthy waters | Next Generation Solutions to Ensure Healthy Water Resources for Future Generations

Paulin Coulibaly

Job Titles:
  • Professor, School of Geography & Earth Sciences and Department of Civil Engineering

Paulo Alencar

Job Titles:
  • Research / Adjunct Professor, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Peter Deadman

Job Titles:
  • Geography and Environmental Management

Peter Kruse

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Phani Adapa

Job Titles:
  • Director of Operations / Global Institute for Water Security

Philip Marsh

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Lead
  • Professor, Department of Geography Canada Research Chair in Cold Regions Water Science

Philippe Van Cappellen


Prof. Corinne Schuster-Wallace

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Prof. Dawn Martin-Hill

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Social Sciences Paul R. MacPherson Chair in Indigenous Studies

Prof. Deborah McGregor

Job Titles:
  • Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Justice
  • Research Chair

Prof. Lalita Bharadwaj

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, School of Public Health

Prof. Lawrence Martz

Job Titles:
  • Dean of Faculty Relations and Professor, University of Saskatchewan

Raoul-Marie Couture

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Science, Laval University / University of Waterloo

Ravi Selvaganapathy

Job Titles:
  • Canada Research Chair in Biomicrofluidics

Raymond Spiteri

Job Titles:
  • Professor, College of Arts and Science - Department of Computer Science

Rebecca Rooney

Job Titles:
  • Department of Biology

Richard Petrone

Job Titles:
  • Geography and Environmental Management

Rob de Loe

Job Titles:
  • Professor, School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability

Rob Feick

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, School of Planning

Robert Gordon

Job Titles:
  • President and Vice - Chancellor, University of Windsor

Robert Patrick

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Regional and Urban Planning Program, Department of Geography and Planning

Roland Hall

Job Titles:
  • Department of Biology

Ronald Stewart

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba

Roy Brouwer

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Economics

Roy Rasmussen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist

Saman Razavi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability

Sang-Tae Kim

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, School of Geography & Earth Sciences

Scott Higgins

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist, International Institute of Sustainable Development, Adjunct University of Saskatchewan and Adjunct University of Waterloo

Scott Smith

Job Titles:
  • Department of Chemistry

Sean Carey

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Lead
  • Professor
  • Professor, School of Geography & Earth Sciences

Shawn Reibling

Job Titles:
  • Knowledge Mobilization Officer

Sherry Schiff

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Simon Courtenay

Job Titles:
  • Professor, School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability

Stacey Dumanski

Job Titles:
  • Outreach Coordinator
  • Outreach Coordinator ( on Maternity Leave )

Stephen Déry

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Environmental Sciences, University of Northern British Columbia

Stephen Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Professor, School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability

Stephen O'Hearn

Job Titles:
  • IT Coordinator and Data Management Team Lead

Steven Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Geography and Environmental

Sylvain Justras

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Science, Laval University

Terry Fonstad

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, College of Engineering - Department of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering

Timothy Jardine

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability and Department of Toxicology

Tom Tang

Job Titles:
  • Lead, Environmental Modelling Team, Southern Region, Alberta Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development

Tricia Stadnyk

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Dept of Civil Engineering ( Water Resources ), University of Manitoba

Tyler de Jong

Job Titles:
  • Technician

Viviana Barrera Niño

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant / Global Institute for Water Security

Warren Helgason

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Lead

Wayne Parker

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
GWF Project: Linking multiple stressors to adverse ecological responses across watersheds

William Quinton

Job Titles:
  • Geography and Environmental

Xin Li

Job Titles:
  • Director of Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Geospatial Science at CAREERI / Chinese Academy of Sciences ( CAS ), CHINA
  • Professor

Yanping Li

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability