Faculty + Staff
Kwabena Boateng Bediako | Phd (University of Alberta), MA (University of Saskatchewan), BA (University of Ghana) | Assistant Professor | Environment & Sustainability (Economics)
Dr. Bediako is an assistant professor at the School of Science and the Environment, affiliated to the Environment and Sustainability Program. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Economics, University of Alberta in 2023. His research interests are in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, and Renewable Resource Management, with focus on fisheries and aquaculture.
Mumtaz Cheema | BSc (Hons.), MSc, PhD (University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan) | Postdoc (Iowa State) | Professor | Boreal Ecosystems and Agricultural Sciences | Environment & Sustainability
My research interests are Cropping Systems, Integrated Nutrient Management, Industrial Waste Management, Developing BPMs to mitigate Climate Change, Synthesis and evaluating Carbon nano-fertilizer, Abiotic Stress Management.
Stephen Decker | BA, MA (Memorial) | PhD (British Columbia, Okanagan) | Associate Professor | Environment & Sustainability
I am an interdisciplinary, settler scholar with interests in integrated resource management, Indigenous engaged research, and the human dimensions of wildlife management (HDWM). I have worked on research projects in several western European countries and increasingly in Newfoundland and Labrador and Nunatsiavut in particular. I have an active research and graduate supervision portfolio with several current and emerging projects and supervision of 25 graduate students to date - including several Indigenous students from Nunatsiavut.
Morteza Haghiri | BSc, MSc (Tehran/Iran), PhD (Saskatchewan) | Professor | Environment & Sustainability (Economics)
I conduct research in applied microeconomics, with a focus on traceability, food safety, and food sovereignty; sustainable energy and conservation; agricultural policy; the circular bioeconomy; value-added chains; low-carbon footprint agricultural products; innovative agricultural practices; and the economics of life cycle assessment. My work centres on quantitative analysis, using parametric and non-parametric econometric methods to investigate policy effects, market behaviour, and sustainability outcomes.
Camille Ouellet-Dallaire | BSc (Laval), MSc, PhD (McGill) | Assistant Professor | Environmental Science | Program Chair | Environment & Sustainability
I do research on the cumulative impacts of natural resource development on socio-environmental systems, with a focus on watersheds at large scale. I use ecosystem services modelling and geospatial analyses to support policy development for resilient ecosystems and social justice. I am interested in the green and just transition for Newfoundland and Labrador, and Canada more broadly.
Robert Scott | BSc (Western), MSc (Guelph), PhD (Clark) | Associate Professor | Environment & Sustainability | Director, Bonne Bay Aquarium & Research Station | Interim Dean
I am an evolutionary ecologist who studies populations of fish common to the west coast of Newfoundland, including threespine stickleback brook charr, and Atlantic salmon. I also run Grenfell’s Research Station (Bonne Bay Aquarium and Research Station) in Norris Point, NL, where Grenfell has a facility that supports teaching, research and public engagement.
Josie Wittmer | BA (Carleton), MA, PhD (Guelph) | Assistant Professor | Environment and Sustainability (Human Geography)
I am a feminist, anti-colonial urban geographer working on urban environmental sustainability issues. My research broadly explores how the governance and production of various sustainability-oriented infrastructure projects (re)produce inequalities across multiple scales. I work on projects in Canada, Europe, and South Asia to examine how sewage, solid waste, and ‘urban greening’ initiatives are becoming sites for enclosure, data production, surveillance, and capital accumulation, while also remaining spaces of enduring labour precarity, social inequity, and activism.
Jianghua Wu | BSc (Nanjing), MSc (Nanjing), GIS Graduate Certificate (Southern California), PhD (McGill) | Professor | Environment & Sustainability
Staff
Randy Skinner, Laboratory Instructor, Environment & Sustainability/ Earth Sciences
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Professor Emeritus and Honorary Research Professors
Gabriela Sabau, Honorary Research Professor, Environment and Sustainability (Economics)
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