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Annual Report2014-2015

UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN

School of Environment and SustainabilityUSASK.CA/SENS

School of Environment and Sustainability

University of Saskatchewan

Room 323, Kirk Hall

117 Science Place

Saskatoon, SK

Canada S7N 5C8

www.usask.ca/sens

Telephone: (306) 966-1985

Facsimile: (306) 966-2298

E-mail: [email protected]

On the cover: “Earth’s Vein,” taken by PhD candidate Ana-Maria Bogdan, won the 2015 SENS Photo Contest.

Below (from left): PhD students Ranjan Datta and Jada Koushik with MSEM student Manuel Chavez-Ortiz and MES student Raea Gooding.

Table of Contents

The School of Environment and Sustainability ........................................................................... 1

Courses ...................................................................................................................................................... 3

People ........................................................................................................................................................ 9

Student Demographics ....................................................................................................................... 16

Research and Scholarly Work ............................................................................................................. 18

Public and Community Outreach .................................................................................................... 47

Governance .............................................................................................................................................. 47

Financial Statements ............................................................................................................................ 49

MES student Noel Galus-chik finished first in the 2015 Water Leaders of Tomorrow poster competi-tion. Her poster was about daily changes in phos-phorus that occur in small freshwater reservoirs and how these small changes can have a large impact on water quality monitoring regimes.

SENS students, faculty, and staff outside Kirk Hall in September 2014.

The School of Environment and SustainabilityThe School of Environment and Sustainability (SENS) continued to grow and change through the 2014-2015 year. After extensive review and consultation, a new graduate program curriculum was launched in fall 2014. Four new courses, each with an integrated sustainability focus, were introduced, including a field skills course and a PhD seminar. This integrated cur-riculum was designed to allow students to develop the attributes that each SENS graduate should pos-sess: thinking holistically with ethical intent; deeply understanding sustainability; integrating a range of perspectives and ways of knowing; being an ambassa-dor for sustainability and an agent of change; having research expertise; demonstrating collaborative, lead-ership and professional skills in knowledge sharing; and, having a substantive area of expertise in keeping with their program of study.

Having identified a gap with respect to sustainability program offerings for undergraduate students, SENS introduced an undergraduate certificate in sustain-ability in fall 2014. This certificate proved immediately popular with students in the eight undergraduate environmental programs at the U of S—five students graduated with their certificates at Spring Convoca-tion 2015, and the core courses for the certificate have been fully subscribed.

In addition to having its first certificate grads at Spring Convocation, SENS reached another milestone at that ceremony—100 SENS alumni. SENS graduates are now working in careers in academia, various levels of government, in the non-profit sector, and in industry, both in Canada and internationally. We know they are all making a difference whatever their path from SENS has been.

VisionThe School of Environment and Sustainability is an international model of excellence and destination site for interdisciplinary, problem-oriented and experi-ence-based graduate learning for issues dealing with environment and sustainability.

MissionWe enable sustainable communities and environ-ments through collaborative research and teaching,

graduate student engagement, and community involvement. We broaden understanding and develop champions of environmental sustainability by creat-ing, exchanging, and translating knowledge using diverse perspectives.

Core ValuesAs a School, we value:

• Scholarly dialogue and debate regarding environment and sustainability

• Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scholarship

• Innovation and academic excellence among students and faculty

• Student growth and success• Systems and holistic approaches to

environmental sustainability• Working on a variety of spatial and temporal

scales• Collaboration in teaching, research, and

engagement• Consultative and cooperative decision-making• Respectful and substantive engagement with

wide communities• Inclusion of different ways of knowing• Supporting sustainable and healthy

communities and environments• Making a difference through public discourse,

deliberative processes, and informed citizenship• Leading by example through attention to our

own environmental footprint

Programs OfferedThe School of Environment and Sustainability offers three graduate programs: • Master of Sustainable Environmental Manage-

ment (MSEM): an interdisciplinary, course-based, professional-style program that can be completed in one year of intensive full-time study. Students enrolled in this program are required to complete 24 credit units of course work and a 6 credit unit service learning project, and to participate in the Seminar in Environment and Sustainability. This program is intended to provide prospective or cur-rent environmental practitioners a post-graduate learning opportunity in sustainable environmental management.

• Master of Environment and Sustainability (MES): an interdisciplinary, thesis-based program that can be completed in two years of full-time study. Students enrolled in this program are required to complete 12 credit units of course work and a thesis based on original research, and to participate in the Seminar in Environment and Sustainability.

• Doctor of Philosophy in Environment and Sustainability (PhD): an interdisciplinary, research-based pro-gram that can be completed in three years of full time study. Students enrolled in this program are required to complete a qualifying examination, 6 credit units of course work, a comprehensive examination, and a dissertation based on original research, and to participate in the Seminar in Environment and Sustainability.

The School launched an Undergraduate Certificate of Proficiency in Sustainability in 2014. The certificate provides students with significant exposure to sustainability-related concepts and practices, allowing them to gain an understanding of how to integrate human-environmental systems and how to critically evaluate sus-tainability efforts.

The SENSSA Food Fair, held in March 2015, once again brought together members of the SENS community to celebrate cultural diversity in the best possible way—with food! Fifteen different cultures and ethnicities were represented by the dishes prepared by the twenty-six faculty, staff, and students who volunteered to cook.

In the photos: A long line of dishes awaits food fair attendees, and PhD student Jada Koushik enjoys the diversity of dishes.

CoursesThe following courses were offered by the School of Environment and Sustainability during the 2014-2015 aca-demic year.

Undergraduate CoursesThese courses are required for the undergraduate certificate in sustainability.ENVS 201.3: Foundations of SustainabilityInstructors: Fran Walley and Felicitas EgunyuThis course provides foundational knowledge about sustainability science and concepts while also exposing students to the key foci areas they can pursue with the certificate. A final class group project emphasizes col-laborative interaction based on sustainability themes.

ENVS 401.3: Sustainability in ActionInstructors: Phil Loring and Colin LaroqueThis course combines seminars and project‐based activities to examine local and global sustainability issues, integrating perspectives and knowledge from both the social and natural sciences. Students will work in inter-disciplinary, collaborative groups to address sustainability challenges.

Graduate Courses - Core CurriculumENVS 803.3: Research in Environment and SustainabilityInstructor: Bram Noble and Cherie Westbrook, Department of Geography and PlanningThis course is designed for MES and PhD students. It introduces graduate students to conceptual, practical, and ethical issues in conducting interdisciplinary research about environment and sustainability. By the end of the course, students will have a research plan from which their proposal and research activities can be developed.

ENVS 805.3: Environment Data Analysis and ManagementInstructors: Andrew Ireson and Graham StrickertEnvironmental data management is complex because of its volume, qualitative and quantitative forms, and temporal and spatial characteristics. This course introduces students to statistical, qualitative, and visual meth-ods of problem solving and data reduction and representation and describes methods for managing large and complex data sets.

ENVS 806.3: Field Skills in Environment and SustainabilityInstructors: Tim Jardine, Vladimir Kricsfalusy, Christy Morrissey, and Toddi SteelmanCombining a field experience at Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve with a team-oriented sustainability assess-ment, this course provides hands-on training in a variety of practical skills and techniques in ecological, hydro-logical and social sciences related to rural communities and agro-ecosystems. Students should be prepared to work in the outdoors.

ENVS 807.3: Sustainability in Practice and TheoryInstructors: Helen Baulch and Phil LoringThis course is designed for graduate students to improve their knowledge of applied environmental and sus-tainability problems and develop problem-solving skills. The focus will be on problem identification concepts, investigation of potential causes, identification and implementation of potential solutions or remedial meas-ures, and action plans to evaluate anticipated results.

ENVS 808.3: Tools and Applications for Sustainability Problem-solvingInstructors: Ken Belcher and Karl-Erich LindenschmidtThis course is designed for graduate students to improve their understanding of applied environmental and sustainability problems and develop problem-solving techniques and skills. The focus will be on problem iden-tification, exploration of potential causes, defining appropriate boundaries for problem solving, application and adaptation of modeling approaches to understand systems and problems, identification of potential solutions and understanding the implications of solution approaches or remedial measures.

ENVS 809.3: PhD Seminar in SustainabilityInstructor: Toddi SteelmanThis seminar course examines ideas and assumptions that underpin attempts to achieve ‘sustainability’ and explores different strategies aimed at advancing sustainability objectives. Students will examine fundamen-tal conflicts in values and choices, governance options and challenges, and scientific and societal uncertainty about human-environment interactions. This course is open to PhD students only.

ENVS 990.0: Seminar in Environment and SustainabilityCo-ordinator: Tim JardineThe ENVS 990 Seminar Series features topics relevant to environment and sustainability. In addition to speakers from a variety of academic and non-academic backgrounds, SENS students are required to present their re-search in the seminar. Student presentations take place during the annual student research symposium, usually scheduled in March.

ENVS 992.6: Project in Environment and SustainabilityRequired for MSEM Program

ENVS 994.0: Research in Environment and Sustainability (Thesis)Required for MES Program

ENVS 996.0: Research in Environment and Sustainability (Dissertation)Required for PhD Program

Graduate Courses - ElectivesENVS 812.3: Statistical Methods in Environmental SciencesInstructor: Yanping LiThis course is designed for graduate students to improve their knowledge and understanding of the application of statistical methods in environmental sciences. Content will include introduction to basic statistical concepts including exploratory data analysis techniques, continuous and discrete distributions, hypothesis testing, corre-lation and regression analysis, analysis of variance, experimental designs, nonparametric statistics, trend testing, and introduction to generalized linear models and extreme value theory. The primary objective of the course is for students to learn a variety of techniques that are applicable across a range of problems, irrespective of a specific discipline, involving small and large datasets. At the end of the course, students should be able to apply the techniques to their own research projects.

ENVS 813.3: Introduction to Numerical Modelling for Environmental ScientistsInstructor: Andrew IresonThe purpose of this course is to provide graduate students with a set of modeling skills to allow them to de-velop their own numerical models to solve problems of coupled flow and transport in porous media. The course requires a basic understanding of groundwater flow and transport processes. A particular set of numerical methods for solving sets of partial differential equations are introduced to the student. Models are written in MATLAB using ODE solvers. Specific applications include models for water supplies in aquifers, contamination in aquifers, and water and energy balances in soils. This will also provide the student with an in-depth understand-ing of widely used commercial and non-commercial software such as USGS MODFLOW. The models help the student to think through the physical processes and interpret field data.

ENVS 821.3: Sustainable Water ResourcesInstructor: Helen BaulchThis course rigorously explores water resource sustainability in western Canada from physical, chemical, biologi-cal, socio-economic, and technological perspectives. Biophysical influences on water abundance and quality, current threats to water resources, and efforts to provide for sustainable management of water resources will be examined.

ENVS 831.3: Current Issues in Land Reclamation and RemediationInstructor: Charles MauléCurrent issues in land reclamation and remediation are examined. The impact of human activity in a variety of environments is examined and strategies for reclamation and remediation are investigated. Biophysical factors are the emphasis of the course, however the context of social and economic issues are incorporated.

ENVS 832.3: Risk Assessment and Negotiation of Environmental IssuesInstructors: Markus Hecker and Paul JonesThe objectives of this class are to help students develop a comprehensive understanding of the interdiscipli-nary nature of environmental issues; provide students with an in-depth understanding of the concept of risk, explaining concepts such as relative risks and benefits of human activities; to elucidate the roles and perspec-tives of different stakeholders such as government, industry, academia, lawyers, lobbyists, etc. that are typically involved in the assessment and management of environmental issues; and to teach students the roles that science and society have in the assessment and management of environmental issues.

ENVS 898.3: Co-Management of Northern Ecosystems and Natural ResourcesInstructor: Doug ClarkThis course explores concepts, trends, opportunities and challenges in the movement towards co-management of natural resources and ecosystems in northern Canada and the circumpolar world. Rapid social and biophysi-cal change characterizes this region, so students will gain an in-depth understanding of how co-management institutions interact within this critical context.

ENVS 898.3: Climate ChangeInstructor: Yanping LiThis course explores the science of climate change. Students will learn how the climate system works and the general atmosphere circulation patterns, ocean circulation patterns and climate oscillations such as the El-Niño Southern Oscillation; what factors cause climate to change across different time scales and how those factors interact; how climate has changed in the past; how scientists use models to make predictions about future cli-mate; and the possible consequences of climate change for our planet. Students will learn how climate change today is different from past climate cycles and how satellites and other technologies are revealing the global signals of a changing climate; how addition of CO2 to the atmosphere through burning fossil fuels will influence the climate. Students will gain the scientific basis to analyze and critique policy issues related to global change. The course looks at the connection between human activity and the current warming trend and considers some of the potential social, economic, and environmental consequences of climate change.

ENVS 898.3: Water Resource Management in Cold RegionsInstructor: Karl-Erich LindenschmidtThis course exposes students to the management of water resources in cold regions. It primarily focuses on the components of river ice, snow and ground ice (permafrost). The students receive a fundamental understanding of the physical processes of each component and an introduction to the management of each component. A human dimension is included to investigate the management implications on northern communities.

ENVS 898.3: River ScienceInstructors: Tim Jardine and Karl-Erich LindenschmidtThis course teaches students the fundamentals of biophysical science as applied in riverine settings. It exam-ines physical and biological processes that naturally occur in rivers, then layer on top of that understanding the influence of climatic variables (ice and evaporation) and human influences (river channel modifications and contaminant loading).

ENVS 898.3: Breakthroughs in Water Security ResearchInstructor: Jeff McDonnellThe purpose of this course is to expose students to the latest research in water security, to connect students to the top research in the field internationally, to help students understand what constitutes world class research and to further develop awareness and understanding of major concepts in water security. Each week focuses on

a different sub-field of water security with an attempt to cover a co-equal blend of four thematic areas: hydrol-ogy, aquatic science, water policy, and water resource engineering. The course structure centers around semi-nar attendance and then a weekly group discussion focused on key new papers in the field written by seminar speakers. Students will learn the art of journal article reading, how to critique scientific work and what makes for a good paper. The discussion sessions give the students the opportunity to critically evaluate a paper and discuss the topic with the guest speaker and course instructor. Written assignments given to the students by the course instructor will focus on how recent developments in the water security sub-fields can be applied to their own research or professional goals, and to follow up in greater detail on a topic of interest or relevance to them.

ENVS 990: Seminar in Environment and Sustainability• SENS, ENVS 990, and Interdisciplinarity - Tim Jardine and Toddi Steelman - September 19, 2014• Water Resource Sustainability In Arid Regions - Dave White, Arizona State University - September 24,

2014• Grad Student/Supervisor Relationships - Trever Crowe, College of Graduate Studies and Research, and

Sheryl Mills, Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness - October 3, 2014• Water Quality Control and Management - Steven Chapra, Tufts University - October 9, 2014• SENS Speed Networking - October 24, 2014• Saskatchewan’s Oil Economy - Emily Eaton, University of Regina - October 31, 2014• Transboundary Water Negotiations - Aaron Wolf, Oregon State University - November 12, 2014• Migratory Bird Population Status and Trends - Nicole Michel - November 21, 2014• Science Ambassadors - Ranjan Datta - November 28, 2014• Tool Time: GIS and Remote Sensing - Xulin Guo, Department of Geography and Planning, and Karl-

Erich Lindenschmidt - January 9, 2015• Use of Photography in Wildlife Research - Dale Mierau - January 16, 2015• Public Space: Streets and Squares - Ryan Walker, Department of Geography and Planning - January 30,

2015• Once Was Home: Indigeneity and the City - Hirini Matunga, Lincoln University, New Zealand - February

3, 2015• Delta Day - February 6, 2015• Tool Time: Trail Cameras - Tim Jardine, Doug Clark, Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt, with Ryan Brook, Depart-

ment of Animal and Poultry Science - February 27, 2015• Back to the Future? Women and Sustainable Development - Isobel Findlay, Edwards School of Business

- March 6, 2015• Tool Time: Drones: Michael Bender, Golder Associates, and Chris Spence, Environment Canada - March

13, 2015• World Water Day - March 20, 2015• SENS Student Symposium - March 27, 2015

The SENS Student Symposium

SENS celebrated student research with its second student symposium day, held on March 27, 2015, in the Educa-tion Building. More than forty-five students in the School’s three graduate programs spoke about their thesis or project research, to their peers, to the School’s faculty, and to the School’s community partners.

“I remember when SENS had 1½ offices in the Law Building,” Martin Phillipson, associate professor in the College of Law, commented, as he introduced the keynote speaker, Dr. Nancy Doubleday from McMaster University. Indeed, the School has grown tremendously since those early days in 2007. Still, the underpinning values that were described in the original proposal to establish SENS – namely, interdisciplinarity, in-novation, originality, and collaboration – have always been important at the School.

Dr. Doubleday, the Hope Chair in Peace and Health at McMas-ter, spoke about interdisciplinarity as a process. She noted that wicked problems don’t respect disciplinary boundaries, and that to be effective and to have impact, decisions need to be made with everyone at the table. “Interdependency is real,” she commented. “Partnerships and sharing knowledge is beneficial, but we don’t often acknowledge this.”

The importance of sharing knowledge beyond academia will, no doubt, continue to be a focus for SENS going forward. The symposium proved that the School’s students have the profes-sionalism and the understanding to do just that.

From top: Cara Baldwin, MSEM program; Brett MacKin-non, MES program; and, Chelsea Oliphant-Rescanski, MSEM program.

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Delta Day: Pictures Speak One Thousand Words

Contributed by Evan Andrews, MES student. Evan is studying perspectives on water quantity in the Saskatchewan River Delta, including how rights holders living downstream of dams understand levels of water flow, and how they see themselves in decision-making processes.

SENS has many faculty and students conducting research in three deltas: the Peace-Athabasca, the Slave Lake and River, and the Sas-katchewan River. On Delta Day, held the first Friday in February, the School comes together to welcome and celebrate its partners who live and work in these deltas. Delta Day provides the opportunity to share perspectives, make connections, and ultimately, introduce the greater SENS community to the environmental champions the SENS delta researchers have come to appreciate. Without these special guests and many others in their communities, SENS delta research would not exist.

This year, Renee and Solomon Carrière, from the Saskatchewan River Delta, joined us for the School’s ENVS 990 seminar to share the joys and challenges of downstream life through the power of the visual image. They were joined by three Grade 8 students from Charlebois Community School in the Northern Village of Cumberland House. The students, Acagos Carrière, Seghen Carrière and Courtney MacKay, proved that the delta’s youth have much to offer, as they carried themselves through a day of meetings, presentations, and new situa-tions with courage and professionalism.

Renee and Solomon shared a photo essay about their home on the Saskatchewan River. We witnessed a glimpse of a lifetime of love and loss, and the fruitful co-existence of two people from different worlds – Renee is of European descent, while Solomon’s heritage is Métis. Solomon talked about arguing with Renee over how best to navigate the river’s challenges. Renee called this “dialoging.” Renee talked about the efficiency of language in her world, while Solomon views language as a map. Through their photos, they showed us how the fast-changing waters of the delta have fundamentally changed their family and their way of life. The flooding in the last ten years has been devastating. Then, the “experiment” began. We wanted to know how images could bring people together and allow presenters of all ages to express themselves. All five guests brought with them a photo, from the Northern Village of Cumberland House and sur-rounding area, of what water means to them:• The Carrière family in the snow in front of a lobstick; • The sun setting on the Saskatchewan River off the porch of the Big Eddy Camp; • Acagos taking a photo on the Cumberland House Bridge; • A frozen hockey rink behind the Charlebois Community School; • The scorched bridge resting on the frozen Big Stone.

SENS students and faculty were divided into groups and took turns interpreting the photos, before the presenters shared their perspec-tives. As the audience rotated through the photo stations, the buzz in the room increased in volume, the youth presenters became more confident, and the knowledge-bridging became apparent. Thanks to the eighty people in attendance, including our presenters, note-takers, and facilitators, we achieved something special. We helped each other to understand.

Students speak with Solomon Carrière during the Delta Day ENVS 990 seminar. Solomon shared stories about his life in the Saskatchewan River Delta, and spoke about the impact that flooding has had on him and his family.

People

Administration• Toddi Steelman, Executive Director (BA, West Virginia; MPA, Princeton; PhD, Duke) • Maureen Reed, Assistant Director - Academic (BSc, Victoria; MA, Toronto; PhD Waterloo) (on sabbatical)

FacultyStandard Appointments

• MJ Barrett, Assistant Professor (BAS, Harvard; BEd, Queen’s; MES, York; PhD, Regina)• Helen Baulch, Assistant Professor (BSc, Waterloo; MSc, Alberta; PhD, Trent)• Douglas Clark, Assistant Professor (BSc, Victoria; MSc, Alberta; PhD Wilfrid Laurier)• Markus Hecker, Associate Professor (Diploma (MSc Equivalent), Hamburg; PhD, Hamburg)• Tim Jardine, Assistant Professor (BSc, Dalhousie; MSc, New Brunswick; PhD, New Brunswick) • Paul Jones, Associate Professor (BSc, Otago; PhD, Otago)• Vladimir Kricsfalusy, Associate Professor (Academic Programming) (MSc, Uzhgorod; PhD, Uzhgorod and

the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)• Yanping Li, Assistant Professor (BS, Sun Yat-Sen University; MS, Chinese Academy of Science; MPhil, Yale;

PhD; Yale) • Karsten Liber, Professor (BSc, Guelph; PhD, Guelph)• Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt, Associate Professor (BSc, Manitoba; MASc, Toronto; PhD, Technical University

of Berlin) • Phil Loring, Assistant Professor (BA, Florida Atlantic University; MA, University of Alaska Fairbanks; PhD,

University of Alaska Fairbanks) • Jeff McDonnell, Professor (BSc, Toronto; MSc, Trent; PhD, Canterbury, New Zealand)• Saman Razavi, Assistant Professor (BSc, Iran University of Science and Technology; MSc, Amirkabir Univer-

sity of Technology; PhD, Waterloo) (from November 2014)• Maureen Reed, Professor (BSc, Victoria; MA, Toronto; PhD, Waterloo) • Toddi Steelman, Professor (BA, West Virginia; MPA, Princeton; PhD, Duke)

Primary-Joint Appointments• Andrew Ireson, Assistant Professor (MEng, Bath; MSc, Imperial College London; PhD, Imperial College

London) (70% SENS; 30% Department of Civil and Geological Engineering, College of Engineering)• Howard Wheater, Professor (MA, Cambridge; PhD, Bristol) (70% SENS, 30% Department of Civil and Geo-

logical Engineering, College of Engineering)

Secondary-Joint Appointments• Ken Belcher, Associate Professor (BSA, Manitoba; MNRM, Manitoba; PhD, Saskatchewan) (30% SENS; 70%

Department of Bioresource Policy, Business, and Economics, College of Agriculture and Bioresources)• Hayley Hesseln, Associate Professor (BComm, Saskatchewan; PhD, Colorado State) (30% SENS; 70% De-

partment of Bioresource Policy, Business, and Economics, College of Agriculture and Bioresources)• Colin Laroque, Professor (BSc, Saskatchewan; MSc, Victoria; PhD, Victoria) (30% SENS; 70% Department of

Soil Science, College of Agriculture and Bioresources) • Charles Maulé, Professor (BSc, British Columbia; MSc, Alberta; PhD, Alberta) (33% SENS; 67% Department

of Chemical and Biological Engineering, College of Engineering)• Christy Morrissey, Assistant Professor (BSc, British Columbia; PhD, Simon Fraser) (30% SENS, 70% Depart-

ment of Biology, College of Arts and Science) • Bram Noble, Professor (BA, Memorial; MES, Wilfrid Laurier; PhD, Memorial) (30% SENS; 70% Department of

Geography and Planning, College of Arts and Science)• Fran Walley, Professor (BSc, Manitoba; MSc, Manitoba; PhD, Saskatchewan) (30% SENS; 70% Department

of Soil Science, College of Agriculture and Bioresources)

Associate Faculty• Angela Bedard-Haughn, Associate Professor (BSc, Saskatchewan; MSc, Saskatchewan; PhD, California-

Davis), Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture and Bioresources• Scott Bell, Professor (BEd, British Columbia; MA, California-Santa Barbara; PhD, California-Santa Barbara),

Department of Geography and Planning, College of Arts and Science• Lalita Bharadwaj, Associate Professor (BSc, Saskatchewan; MSc, Saskatchewan; PhD, Saskatchewan),

School of Public Health• Ryan Brook, Assistant Professor (BSc, Manitoba; MNRM, Manitoba; PhD, Manitoba), Department of Animal

and Poultry Science, College of Agriculture and Bioresources• Geoff Cunfer, Associate Professor (BA, North Carolina; MA, Texas Tech; PhD, Texas), Department of History,

College of Arts and Science• Rachel Engler-Stringer, Assistant Professor (BSc, Montreal; PhD, Saskatchewan), Department of Commu-

nity Health and Epidemiology, College of Medicine• Jim Germida, Professor (BSc, Maryland-College Park; MSc, Pennsylvania State; PhD, Pennsylvania State),

Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture and Bioresources• Michael Gertler, Associate Professor (BES, Waterloo; MSc, McGill; PhD, Cornell), Department of Sociology,

College of Arts and Science• Jill Gunn, Assistant Professor (BA, Saskatchewan; MSc, Northern British Columbia; PhD, Saskatchewan),

Department of Geography and Planning, College of Arts and Science• Suren Kulshreshtha, Professor (BSc, Agra; MSc, Agra; PhD, Manitoba), Department of Bioresource Policy,

Business, and Economics, College of Agriculture and Bioresources• Marcia McKenzie, Associate Professor (BSc, British Columbia; MEd, Brock; PhD, Simon Fraser), Department

of Educational Foundations, College of Education• David Natcher, Professor (BA, Alberta; MA, Alaska; PhD, Alberta), Department of Bioresource Policy, Busi-

ness, and Economics, College of Agriculture and Bioresources• Mehdi Nemati, Professor (BSc, Amirkabir; MSc, Amirkabir; PhD, Manchester), Department of Chemical and

Biological Engineering, College of Engineering• Aloysius Newenham-Kahindi, Associate Professor (BA, Pontifical Urbaniana Universitat; MSc, University

College Dublin; PhD, University College Dublin), Department of Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour, Edwards School of Business

• Catherine Niu, Associate Professor (BEng, Sichuan; MEng, Sichuan; PhD, McGill), Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, College of Engineering

• Robert Patrick, Associate Professor (BA, British Columbia; BEd, Dalhousie; MA, Simon Fraser; PhD, Guelph), Department of Geography and Planning, College of Arts and Science

• Jeremy Rayner, Professor (MA, Cambridge; MA, Durham; PhD, British Columbia), Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy

• Bing Si, Professor (BSc, Hebei Agricultural; MSc, Hebei Agricultural; PhD, Guelph), Department of Soil Sci-ence, College of Agriculture and Bioresources

• Jafar Soltan, Associate Professor (BSc, Abadan Institute of Technology; MSc, Shiraz; PhD, British Colum-bia), Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, College of Engineering

• Ryan Walker, Associate Professor (BA, Lethbridge; MA, Waterloo; PhD, Queen’s; MCIP), Department of Geography and Planning, College of Arts and Science

• Clinton Westman, Associate Professor (BA, Calgary; MES, York; PhD, Alberta), Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Science

• Chelsea Willness, Assistant Professor (BA, Saskatchewan; MSc, Calgary; PhD, Calgary), Department of Hu-man Resources and Organizational Behaviour, Edwards School of Business

Adjunct Faculty • Murray Bentham (BSc, Saskatchewan; MSc, Saskatchewan; PhD, Saskatchewan)• Alex Bond (BSc, Mount Allison; MSc; New Brunswick; PhD, Memorial), RSPB Centre for Conservation Sci-

ence

• John Mark Davies (BSc, Saskatchewan; MSc, Manitoba; PhD, Victoria), Saskatchewan Water Security Agency

• Jean-Michel DeVink (BSc, New Brunswick - Fredericton; PhD, Saskatchewan), Stantec Consulting Inc.• Monique Haakensen (BSc, Saskatchewan; PhD, Saskatchewan), Contago Strategies• Andrew Harwood (BSc, Edinburgh; PhD, Glasgow), Ecofish Research• Allison Henderson (BSc, Saskatchewan; MSc, Simon Fraser; PhD, Saskatchewan), Saskatchewan Ministry

of Environment• Michael Hill (BSc, North Carolina State; MSc, Eastern Kentucky; PhD, Western Ontario), SNC Lavallin• Keith Hobson (BSc, Simon Fraser; MSc, Manitoba; PhD, Saskatchewan), Environment Canada• Mark Johnston (BSc, Minnesota; MSc, Alberta; PhD, SUNY), Saskatchewan Research Council• Naveed Khaliq (BSc, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad; ME, Asian Institute of Technology; MSc, National

University of Ireland; PhD, National University of Ireland), National Research Council of Canada• Gun Lidestav (MSc, Institutionen för skogsteknik; DF, Institutionen för skogsteknik) Researcher, Section

of Forest Resource Analysis, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences• Murray MacKay (BSc, Waterloo; MSc, Toronto; PhD, Toronto), Environment Canada• Merle Massie (BA, Saskatchewan; MA, Saskatchewan; PhD, Saskatchewan), Centre for the Study of Coop-

eratives• Hans Peterson (BSc, Lund; MSc, Wales; PhD, Dundee), retired• Tetsu Sato (BLit, Keio; DS, Sophia), Research Institute for Humanity and Nature• Jeffrey Sereda, (BSc, Saskatchewan; PhD, Saskatchewan), Saskatchewan Water Security Agency• Judit Smits (BSc, Guelph; DVM, Ontario Veterinary College; MVetSc, Saskatchewan; PhD, Saskatchewan),

University of Calgary• Garth van der Kamp (BSc, British Columbia; MSc, British Columbia; PhD; Free University, The Netherlands),

National Hydrology Research Institute, Environment Canada• Elaine Wheaton (BSc, Saskatchewan; MSc, Saskatchewan; PhD, Saskatchewan), retired

Professional Affiliates• Rebecca North, (BSc, Waterloo; PhD, Waterloo), Global Institute for Water Security• Joe Schmutz, (BSc, Wisconsin; MSc, Alberta; PhD, Queen’s; BEd, Saskatchewan), Prairie Ecodesign

Sessional Lecturers• Graham Strickert, (BA, Lakehead; PhD, Lincoln, New Zealand)

Staff • Sharla Daviduik, (BSc, Saskatchewan; MRM, Simon Fraser), Administrative Officer• Charlotte Hampton, Financial and Administrative Assistant • Meagan Hinther, (BSc, McGill), Communications Specialist• Tracey McHardy, (BComm, Saskatchewan, CA), Financial Officer• Irene Schwalm, (BAC, Saskatchewan), Graduate Secretary• Erin Smith-Windsor, (BSc, Saskatchewan; PhD, Saskatchewan), Research Facilitator

StudentsCertificate of Proficiency in Sustainability Graduates

• Leah Jordon• Peter Olsen• Janessa Paetkau• Laura Soucy• Amie Vowles

For SENS Graduate Programs, an asterisk indicates that the student graduated during the 2014-2015 year.

Master of Sustainable Environmental Management• Leonid Akhov, Specialist’s Degree, Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University; PhD, Taras Shevchenko

Kiev National University• Mohammed Al-Mahdawe, BSc, Saskatchewan• Richard Baah, BSc, Cape Coast; MSc, Hohenheim* • Cara Baldwin, BComm, Saskatchewan• Morounfayo Banjoko, MSc, Notthingham Trent• Davida Bentham, BA, Saskatchewan*• Teshager Bitew Kefale, BSc, Alemaya; MSc, Calgary• Manuel Chavez-Ortiz, BA, Saskatchewan• Brandon Clinton, BSc, Humboldt State* • Heloise Garez, BSc, Saskatchewan• Branimir Gjetvaj, MSc, Dalhousie; PhD, Queen’s• Gurdeep Hehar, BTech, Punjab Agricultural University; MS, Auburn• Adaobi Ifeacho, BSc, Caritas• Min Jia, BSc, Saskatchewan*• Vernon Kiss, BA, Saskatchewan; LLB, Saskatchewan*• Tyneal Knackstedt, BSA, Saskatchewan• Kelechi Ndukwe, BSc, Abia State• Kelechi Nwanekezie, BSc, Benin; MSc, Glasgow Caledonian*• Raphiat Oladele, BSc, Bowen University Iwo• Chelsea Oliphant-Recanski, BSc, Lethbridge• Ayesha Qazi, BES, COMSTATS; MS, COMSTATS*• Merci Rapolti, BSc, Humboldt State*• Kelly Richardson, Bachelor International Development, La Trobe; MSocSci, RMIT*• Amandeep Sangha, BTech, Punjab Agricultural University; Master Agribusiness Management, Asian Insti-

tute of Technology• Al Scholz, BSc, Saskatchewan; BEd, Saskatchewan*• Rong Shen, Bachelor Resources and Environmental Science, Yangzhou • Kathleen Suek, BA, Saskatchewan*• Mary Tait, BSc, Cape Breton*• Kyle Young, Bachelor of Planning, Northern British Columbia*• Zhaochang Zhang, BSc, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University; BSc, British Columbia

Master of Environment and Sustainability• Evan Andrews, BA, Regina• Christian Asante, BS, Ghana• Bennet Awume, BSc, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana*• Tabata Bagatim, BSc, Vale do Paraiba• Sarah Baines, BSc, Simon Fraser• Maya Basdeo, BES, Waterloo• Pamela Berry, BA, Saskatchewan• Rosa Brannen, BSc, Saskatchewan*• Astri Buchanan, BSc, Wilfrid Laurier*• Amanda Burke, BSc, Saskatchewan• Krystal Caldwell, BA, Manitoba• Jeh Custerra, BA, Saskatchewan• Apurba Das, BSc Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology • Lorelei Ford, BSc, Regina; BSc, Regina

• Noel Galuschik, BSc, New Westminster College*• Raea Gooding, BSc, Saskatchewan*• Matthew Harmin, BA, Kentucky*• Hamideh Hosseini Safa, BSc, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources; MSc,

Tarbiat Modares University• Ishita Jamal, Bachelor of Architecture, Ansanullah University of Science and Technology• Nils Lokken, BSc, Alberta*• Brett Mackinnon, BSc, Simon Fraser• Jason Maillett, BSc, Mount Allison• Veronica Mauel, BA, British Columbia• Anna Meissner, BA, Alberta• Jordan Mihalicz, BSc, Saskatchewan• Mangaliso Mohammed, BA, Brandeis; BA, Brandeis• Terri Lynn Paulson, BAgr, Saskatchewan• Olena Pavyluk, BArch, Poltava National Technical University, Ukraine; MEcon, Sumy State University,

Ukraine• Janell Rempel, BSc, Saskatchewan*• Shea Shirley, BSc, Saskatchewan• Kiri Staples, BA, Trent*• Bethany Templeton, BSc, McGill• Christina Thomson, BEd, Memorial; BSc, Dalhousie*• Sarah Welter, BSc, Saskatchewan• Ross Willness, BSc, Saskatchewan• Jenna Zee, BSc, Saskatchewan

Doctor of Philosophy in Environment and Sustainability• Razak Abu, BA, Ghana; MPhil, Bergen• Kathleen Aikens, BSc, Cape Breton; MSc, McGill• Elvis Zilefac Asong, BSc, Buea; MSc, Lund • Edward Bam, BSc, Cape Coast; MPhil, Ghana• Dan Beveridge, BSc, Trent; MSc, New Brunswick• John Boakye-Danquah, BA, Ghana; MSc, United Nations University, Tokyo• Ana Maria Bogdan, BA, Romanian American University; MSc, Vrije University• Martin Boucher, BSc, Waterloo; MA, Athabasca• Meghan Carr, BSc, Saskatchewan• Naomi Carriere, BSc, Saskatchewan; MSc, Saskatchewan• Emily Cavaliere, BSc, Oregon State; MSc, Western Washington• Michael Cavallaro, BS, Delaware Valley College; MS, Nebraska• Jania Chilima, BSc, Trent; MES, Saskatchewan• Anna Coles, BSc, Durham; MSc, Durham• Ranjan Datta, BSS, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology; MSS, Monmouth; MSS, Shahjalal Uni-

versity of Science and Technology• Felicitas Egunyu, BSc, Makerere; MSc, ITC Twente; MES, Wilfrid Laurier• Jaivime Evaristo, BSc, Philippines; MSc, Pennsylvania• Christopher Gabrielli, BSc, Virginia Tech; MSc, Oregon State; MSc, Oregon State • Colleen George, BA, McMaster; BSc, McMaster; MES, Lakehead• Joshua Gibb, BSc, Leeds; MSc, Leeds• Noel Guzman, BSc, Southern Mindaneo; MDiv, Union Thoeological Seminary, Philippines; MTheol, Prince-

ton; Doctor of Theology, Boston• Jada Koushik, BSc, Michigan; MSc, Tulane; MSc, Michigan• Ning Liu, BEng, Beijing University of Technology; MSc, Christian-Albrechts/Poitiers; MSc, McGill

• Anson Main, BA, Alberta; MLA, Toronto• Naomi Maina, BA, Eastern Africa; MSc, St. Cloud• Mohammad Badrul Masud, BSc, Bangladesh Agricultural University; MSc, Bangladesh Agricultural Uni-

versity; MEng, Asian Institute of Technology• Sandra Moore, BA, Athabasca; MEd, St. Francis Xavier• Maria Fernanda Mora Garces, Bachelor of Tourism, Pontifica Universidad Catolica, Ecuador; Master of

Social Science, FLASCO, Ecuador• Ehimai Ohiozebau, BSc, Benin; MSc, Robert Gordon• Ayodele Olagunju, BSc, Abafemi Awolowo University; MES, Saskatchewan• Amir Sadeghian, BSc, Shahih Bahonar University of Kerman; MSc, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden• Veronica Santafe Troncoso, Bachelor of Tourism, Universidad Tecnologica, Ecuador; MSc, FLASCO, Ecua-

dor• Apoorva Santhosh, BEng, BITS, Pilani, Dubai; MSc, Masdar University, Dubai• Maria Lucia Scaff, Bachelor’s, Chile; Master’s, Chile • Will Schenn, BSc, Saskatchewan; BA, Saskatchewan; MNGD, Saskatchewan • Aimee Schmidt, BA, Victoria• Hardi Shahadu, BA, Ghana; MSc, London School of Economics• Mayanin Sosa, BA, Merida; MSc, Merida• Julie Terry, BEng, Nottingham Trent; MSc, Lancaster, UK/Wageningen, The Netherlands• Lindsay Tallon, BSA, Saskatchewan; MSc, Saskatchewan*• Aniekan Udofia, BSc, Calabar; MSc, Saskatchewan• Arcadio Viveros Guzman, MSc, Colegio de Postgraduados; MEd, Saskatchewan• Yvonne Vizina, BEd, Saskatchewan; MEd, Saskatchewan• Bei Yan, BEng, Kunming University of Science and Technology, China; MSc, Kunming University of Science

and Technology, China• Fuad Yassin, BSc, Arba Minch; MSc, Arba Minch; MAS, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology• Yi Zhou, Bachelor’s, China Agricultural University

Post-Doctoral Fellows• Melkamu Alebachew Ali, BSc, Arba Minch; MSc, Nice Sophia Antipolis; PhD, RomaTre• Ali Ashgar Ameli, BSc, Shiraz; MSc, Shiraz; PhD, Waterloo• Willemijn Appels, BSc, Wageningen; MSc, Wageningen; PhD, Wageningen• Liang Chen, Bachelor, Yunnan; Master, Chinese Academy of Sciences; PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences• Kwok Chun, BEng, Hong Kong; MSc, Imperial College; PhD, Imperial College• José-Luis Guerrero, Bachelor’s, UNAH; PhD, Uppsala• Amin Haghnegahdar, BSc, Shiraz; MSc, Amirkabir; MSc, Colorado State; PhD, Waterloo• Daryl Janzen, BSc, Saskatchewan; MSc, Saskatchewan; PhD, Saskatchewan• Michael Kehoe, BSc, Australian National University; PhD, Queensland• Dawn Keim, MSc, Cranfield; PhD, Leeds• Taufique Mahmood, BSc, Dhaka; MSc, Dhaka; MS, Mississippi; PhD, Arizona State• Chrystal Mantyka-Pringle, BSc, James Cook; Honours, James Cook; PhD, Queensland• Nicole Michel, BS, Willamette; PhD, Tulane• Luis Morales Marin, BSc, Colombian School of Engineering; MSc, National University of Colombia; PhD,

University College London • Natalie Orlowski, BSc, Justus-Liebig; MSc, Justus-Liebig; Dr rer nat, Justus-Liebig• Armelle Paule, BSc, Université François Rabelais; MSc, Université Paul Sabatier; PhD, Université Paul Saba-

tier• Vanessa Pedinotti, Bachelor’s, Bordeaux; Master’s, Bordeaux; PhD, Paul Sabatier• Patricia Pernica, BASc, Toronto; MSc, Alberta; MSc, Toronto; PhD, Toronto• Jay Sagin, MS, Moscow State; MS, Ball State; PhD, Western Michigan• Gonzalo Sapriza Azuri, Bachelor’s, University of the Republic, Montevideo; PhD, Technical University of

Catalonia• Song Tang, MD, Xuzhou Medical College; MS, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention; PhD,

Texas Tech• Jefferson Wong, BSSC, Chinese University of Hong Kong; MPhil, Chinese University of Hong Kong; PhD

Bristol• Omer Yetemen, BSc, Istanbul Technical; MSc, Istanbul Technical; MSc, Nebraska - Lincoln; PhD, Washington

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PhD candidate Ranjan Datta’s photos of the Laitu Khyeng Indigenous Community in Bangladesh won the Sustainable Com-munity and the Student Life categories in the 2015 SENS Photo Contest. Ranjan conducted research in this community for his PhD dissertation.

Student DemographicsAdmissions statistics for 2014-2015 are summarized in the table below. One hundred forty-one applications were received for the School’s three graduate programs, with fifty-nine offers of admission made; one student transferred to SENS from another academic unit at the University of Saskatchewan. Thirty-eight students ac-cepted and began their studies at SENS in 2014-2015.

Table 1 - Admissions 2014 - 2015

Program Applications Received

Offers of Admission

Transfers from Other Units

Total Offers of Admission and Transfers

New Students

Continuing Students

Total Number of Students

MSEM 62 23 1 24 (38.7% of applications) 14 6 20

MES 33 15 0 15 (45.5%) 9 26 35

PhD 46 21 0 21 (45.7%) 15 32 47

Total 141 59 1 60 (42.6%) 38 64 102

The admission grade point averages for new students registering in the three programs in 2014-2015 were: MSEM – 78.6% MES – 79.2% PhD – 81.3%

To date, the average completion times for students at SENS are: MSEM – 1.36 years MES – 2.61 years PhD – 4.83 years

Students registered at SENS in 2014-2015 came to the School from around the world: 29.4% from Saskatchewan 12.7% from other provinces in Canada 57.8% from other countries

Students came to SENS from twenty-six different countries in 2014-2015.

Twenty-six countries were represented by SENS students during 2014-2015:• Canada• Bangladesh• Brazil• Cameroon• Chile• China• Croatia

• Ecuador• Ethiopia• Ghana• India• Iran • Iraq• Kenya

• Mexico• Nigeria• Pakistan• Philippines• Romania• Swaziland

• Tanzania• Thailand• Uganda• Ukraine• United Kingdom• United States of

America

Student Initiatives - SENSSAIn 2014-2015, SENSSA’s major initiative was an engagement project to determine what SENS students want and expect from SENSSA. Many fruitful discussions took place during this project, the outcomes of which will assist SENSSA to better meet the needs of SENS students in the future.

SENSSA held Knowledge Sharing Lunches every Friday, and hosted the very popular Cross-Cultural Food Fair in March. The group hosted a screening of the documentary Just Eat It. SENSSA also held a photo contest, organ-ized curling, soccer, and softball teams, and created a new SENSSA logo. The SENS community garden, located behind the Biology building on campus, was another significant initiative. The SENSSA Executive continued to participate in Graduate Student Association affairs, to both represent SENS students and to keep them informed of that organization’s activities.

The 2014-2015 SENSSA Executive was:• President - Krystal Caldwell• Vice-President - Aimee Schmidt• Treasurer/Secretary - Martin Boucher• Academic Affairs - Hardi Shahadu• Campus Liaison - Kathleen Aikens• Campus Liaison - Naomi Maina• Social Coordinator - Evan Andrews• Community Liaison - Amandeep Sangha• Communications and Webmaster - Manuel Chavez Ortiz

The 2014-2015 SENSSA Executive. From left: Kathleen Aikens, Naomi Maina, Krystal Caldwell, Martin Boucher (holding a photo of Amandeep Sangha), Aimee Schmidt (holding a photo of Manuel Chavez-Ortiz), Hardi Shahadu, and Evan Andrews.

Research and Scholarly WorkResearch and scholarly work at SENS is concentrated in three overlapping focal areas: sustaining communities, sustaining ecosystems, and water security. The School’s faculty and students work jointly, from disciplinary and specific fields, to collaborate and integrate the analytical strength of two or more disciplines to address environ-mental and sustainability problems. This type of interdisciplinarity allows researchers to learn new methodolo-gies and to integrate concepts from other disciplines.

A considerable number of faculty hires in 2011-2013 led to a spike in research revenue and number of grants awarded in subsequent years, as those faculty sought and secured funding to establish their research programs. Now, it appears that the School’s research funding is beginning to cycle through highs and lows—the grants se-cured in 2011-2013 will fund programs for a few years, and then faculty will again be seeking funding. Also, one or two large grants secured in any one year, as was the case in 2012-2013, results in a spike in research revenue.

SENS places a priority on collaborative, interdisciplinary scholarship. The number of grants with multiple faculty members is used as one indicator of this scholarship. In 2014-2015, seven new grants with multiple faculty were initiated, and nine were continuing from previous years.

The SENS Community Garden

Many people on campus are familiar with the fenced plot of land behind the Biology building. During the summer of 2015, rather than being used to grow plant material for biological research, the plot was taken over by a group of SENS students, who turned it into a thriving community garden. This student-led initiative was about much more than growing vegetables, however. PhD can-didate Ana-Maria Bogdan, one of the proponents of the garden, shared her enthusiasm for the project: “This initiative succeeds in bringing together students with diverse educational and cultural backgrounds, and encourages them to use their knowledge and experience in a collaborative effort ... with hopefully tasty rewards! The garden also provides an exploratory space, where we can leave our keyboards and pens behind, and step outside of our offices, to make a contribution towards a more sustainable food system.”

In early 2015, when snow was still on the ground and the garden project was nothing more than a good idea, a survey was sent to the SENS community—students, faculty, and staff—to ask them for their opinions. “The enthusiasm and support we found was certainly the main reason we decided to push forward,” says Ana-Maria. “I think SENS wanted to see this garden, because of its potential to enhance the sense of community, as well as to create a sense of appreciation for growing one’s own food.”

The project was not without its barriers, however. Finding and securing a suitable plot of land within walking or biking distance of campus was critical, but initially proved difficult. Two other plots of land were offered, but the students chose the plot behind the Biology building, given its vicinity to Kirk Hall, where SENS is housed. “The location could not have been better,” says Ana-Ma-ria. “Our enthusiasm for the project certainly helped us to navigate this barrier, but we also received significant support from faculty, especially Vladimir Kricsfalusy in SENS and Bohdan Kordan at St. Thomas More.” PhD candidate Hardi Shahadu has also been a driv-ing force behind the project.

At the end of the summer, the students realized many benefits from the garden. Of course, they had the vegetable harvest, but Ana says that many of the garden’s benefits are more intangible. “Weeding a plot together with your fellow student makes for a great opportunity to establish meaningful connections, to get to know the people you work with better. You drift slowly from caring about their plot being watered or weeded, to caring more about their life and well-being. We chat about recipes and foods that we’ve never heard about before as we learn about each other’s cultures. I think the students have benefitted by gaining the valuable life experience of growing their own food, but also by finding a place to unwind, in the midst of the tumultuous waters of grad school.”

Scholarly works produced with multiple SENS co-authors is another indicator of collaborative, interdisciplinary scholarship. In 2014-2015, SENS faculty published thirty-five contributed papers/abstracts at conferences and ten refereed papers with multiple SENS co-authors.

The following is a summary of the research and scholarly work of faculty holding standard, primary-joint, or secondary-joint appointments in the School of Environment and Sustainability during 2014-2015. While all re-search grants may not have been administered through the School, the research often involves SENS graduate students. During 2014-2015, SENS faculty produced seventeen books, chapters in books, expository and review articles; ninety-seven peer-reviewed journal articles; two papers in non-refereed journals; twenty-eight contrib-uted papers/abstracts in conference proceedings; one invited paper/abstract in conference proceedings; twelve technical reports relevant to the academic field; forty-one invited lectures and invited conference presenta-tions; and one hundred forty-five contributed papers/abstracts at conferences. SENS faculty held seventy-four research grants and contracts during 2014-2015.

Names of researchers affiliated with SENS are bolded. These include core faculty, students, and post-doctoral fellows.

Books, Chapters in Books, Expository and Review ArticlesBaulch, H.M. Saving Lake Winnipeg. 2015. Canadian Water Resources Journal, 40(2): 231-232. doi:10.1080/ 07011784.2014.987697

Bogdan A.-M. and Kricsfalusy V. 2015. Book review for Baumbach, H. and Pfützenreuter, S. (eds.). Steppe Habi-tats of Europe. Rangelands, 37(4): 168-169.

Clark, D. 2014. Noted with interest. Conservation Biology 28(3): 887-888.

Clark, D. 2014. Noted with interest. Conservation Biology 28(4): 1134.

Clark, D. 2014. Noted with interest. Conservation Biology 28(5): 1440.



Diduck, A., Reed, M.G., and George, C. 2015. Participatory approaches to resource and environmental man-agement. In Mitchell, B. (ed) Resource and Environmental Management in Canada. 5th Edition. Don Mills: Oxford University Press. pp. 142-170.

Kigobe, M., Wheater, H.S. and McIntyre, N. 2014. Statistical downscaling of precipitation in the Upper Nile: Use

of Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) for the Kyoga Basin. Chapter 22 in: Melesse, A.M., Abtew, W., and Setegn, S.G. (eds) Nile River Basin: Ecohydrological Challenges, Climate Change and Hydropolitics. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. pp. 421-449. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-02720-3

Kricsfalusy, V., Shevera M. Professor Thomas Pavlychenko (to 125th birthday). Ukrainian Botanical Journal (Kyiv). Loring, P.A. 2015. It’s time for a new story of humanity’s place in the world. Ensia. http://ensia.com/voices/its-time-for-a-new-story-of-humanitys-place-in-the-world/

Loring, P.A. 2014. Sustainability requires that we learn to embrace change, not fight it. Ensia. http://ensia.com/voices/sustainability-requires-that-we-learn-to-embrace-change-not-fight-it/

Loring, P.A. 2015. Native to Place: ‘Grass, Soil, Hope’ by Courtney White. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 5(2): 189-191.

Noble, B.F. 2015. Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment: Guide to Principles and Practice, 3rd Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 343 pp.

Noble, B.F. 2015. Adaptive environmental management. In: Mitchell, B. (ed) Resource and Environmental Man-agement in Canada, 5th Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press. pp. 87‐111.

Razavi, S., and Gupta, H.V. 2015. What do we mean by sensitivity analysis? The need for comprehensive char-acterization of ‘‘global’’ sensitivity in Earth and Environmental systems models. Water Resources Research, 51(5): 3070–3092. doi: 10.1002/2014WR016527

Reed, M.G. 2014. Review of “Gender and Wildfire: Landscapes of Uncertainty” by Christine Eriksen for Society and Natural Resources, 27: 1223-1225.

Papers in Refereed JournalsAkomeah, E., Chun, K.P. and Lindenschmidt, K.-E. 2015. Dynamic water quality modelling and uncertainty analysis of phytoplankton and nutrient cycles for the upper South Saskatchewan River. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 22(22): 18239-18251. doi: 10.1007/s11356-015-4970-0

Ali, G., Tetzlaff, D., McDonnell, J.J., Soulsby, C., Carey, S., Laudon, H., McGuire, K., Buttle, J., Seibert J. and Shanley, J. 2015. Comparison of threshold hydrologic response across northern catchments. Hydrological Processes, 29 (16): 3575–3591. doi: 10.1002/hyp.10527

Amichev, B.Y., Bentham, M.J., Cerkowniak, D., Kort, J., Kulshreshtha, S., Laroque, C.P., Piwowar, J.M., and Van Rees, K.C.J., 2015. Mapping and quantification of planted tree and shrub shelterbelts in Saskatchewan, Canada. Agroforestry Systems, 89(1): 49-65. doi: 10.1007/s10457-014-9741-2

Amick, K., Clark, D., and Brook, R. 2015. Stakeholder perspectives on chronic wasting disease risk and man-agement on the Canadian prairies. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 20(5): 408-424. doi: 10.1080/10871209.2015. 1046095

Appels, W., Freer, J., Graham, C. and McDonnell, J.J. 2015. Factors affecting the spatial pattern of bedrock groundwater recharge at the hillslope scale. Hydrological Processes, 29(21): 4594–4610. doi: 10.1002/hyp.10481

Asong, Z.E., Khaliq, N. and Wheater, H.S. 2015. Regionalization of precipitation characteristics in the Canadian Prairie Provinces using large-scale atmospheric covariates and geophysical attributes. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 29: 875-892. doi: 10.1007/s00477-014-0918-z.

Band, L., McDonnell, J.J., Barros, A., Bejan, A., Burt, T., Dietrich, W.E., Emanuel, R., Duncan, J., Hwang, T., Katul, G., Kim, Y., McGlynn, B., Miles, B., Porporato, A., Scaife, C. and Troch, P.A. 2015. Ecohydrological flow networks in the subsurface. Ecohydrology, 7(4): 1073-1078. doi: 10.1002/eco.1525

Beitel, S.C., Doering J.A., Eisner B.K., and Hecker M. 2015. Comparison of the sensitivity of four native Canadian fish species to 17-α Ethinylestradiol, using an in vitro liver explant assay. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 22(24): 20186-20197. doi: 10.1007/s11356-015-5101-7

Beach, D. and Clark, D. 2015. Scenario planning during rapid ecological change: lessons and perspectives from workshops with southwest Yukon wildlife managers. Ecology and Society, 20(1): 61. doi: 10.5751/ES-07379-200161.

Burt, T., Howden, N., McDonnell, J.J., Jones, J. and Hancock, G. 2015. Seeing the climate through the trees: disentangling climate and forestry impacts on streamflow using a 60-year record. Hydrological Processes, 29: 473-480. doi: 10.1001/hyp.10406.

Carbone R. E. and Li, Y., 2015: Tropical oceanic rainfall and sea surface temperature structure: parsing causation from correlation in the MJO. Journal of Atmospheric Science, 72(7): 2703–2718.

Changnon, M., Kreutzweiser D., Mitchell, E.A.D., Morrissey, C.A., Noome, D.A., and Van der Sluijs, J. 2014. Risks of large scale use of systemic insecticides to ecosystem functioning and services. Environmental Science and Pollu-tion Research, 22(1): 119-134. doi: 10.1007/s11356-014-3277-x

Chun, K.P., Wheater, H.S., and Barr, A.G. 2014. A multivariate comparison of the BERMS flux tower observations and Canadian Coupled Global Climate Model (CGCM3) outputs. Journal of Hydrology, 519(Part B): 1537-1550. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.08.059

Costelloe, J.F., Peterson, T.J., Halbert, K., Western, A.W., and McDonnell, J.J. 2015. Groundwater surface mapping informs sources of catchment baseflow. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 19: 1599-1613. doi: 10.5194/hess-19-1599-2015

Crawford, S.E. and Liber, K. 2015. Effects of clay minerals and organic matter in formulated sediments on the bioavailability of sediment-associated uranium to the freshwater midge, Chironomus dilutus. Science of the Total Environment, 532: 821-830. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.05.116

Crossman, J., Futter, M.N., Whitehead, P.G., Stainsby, E., Baulch, H.M., Jin, L., Oni, S.K., Wilby, R.L., and Dillon P.J. 2014. Flow pathways and nutrient transport mechanisms drive hydrochemical sensitivity to climate change across catchments with different geology and topography. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 18: 5125-5148. doi: 10.5194/hess-18-5125-2014

Das, A., Sagin, J., van der Sanden, J., Evans, E., MacKay, H., and Lindenschmidt, K.-E. 2015. Monitoring the freeze-up and ice cover progression of the Slave River. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 42(9): 609-621. doi: 10.1139/cjce-2014-0286

Debeer, C.M., Wheater, H.S., Quinton, W.L., Carey, S.K., Stewart, R.E., Mackay, M.D., and Marsh, P. 2015. The Changing Cold Regions Network: Observation, diagnosis and prediction of environmental change in the Sas-katchewan and Mackenzie River Basins, Canada. Science China: Earth Sciences, 58(1): 46-60. doi: 10.1007/s11430-014-5001-6

Delso, N. and 29 others alphabetically (incl. Morrissey, C.A.). 2015. Systemic insecticides (neonicotinoids and fipronil): trends, uses, mode of action and metabolites. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 22(1): 5-34. doi: 10.1007/s11356-014-3470-y

Doering, J.A., Farmahin, R., Wiseman, S., Kennedy, S., Giesy, J.P., and Hecker, M. 2014. Functionality of aryl hydrocarbon receptors (AhR1 and AhR2) of white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) and implications for the risk assessment of dioxin-like compounds. Environmental Science and Toxicology, 48: 8219-8226. doi: 10.1021/es502054h

Doering, J., Farmahin, R., Wiseman, S., Beitel, S., Kennedy, S., Giesy, J., and Hecker, M. 2015. Differences in activa-tion of aryl hydrocarbon receptors of white sturgeon relative to lake sturgeon are predicted by identities of key amino acids in the ligand binding domain. Environmental Science and Technology, 49: 4681–4689. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.5b00085

Doering, J., Beitel, S., Eisner, B., Heide, T., Hollert, H., Giesy, J., Hecker, M., and Wiseman, S. 2015. Identification and response to metals of metallothionein in two ancient fishes: white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) and

lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C: Toxicology & Pharmacology, 171: 41-48. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpc.2015.03.002

Doig, L.E., Schiffer, S., and Liber, K. 2015. Reconstructing the ecological impacts of eight decades of mining, metallurgical, and municipal activities on a small boreal lake in northern Canada. Integrated Environmental As-sessment and Management, 11(3): 490-501. doi: 10.1002/ieam.1616

Esparrago J. and Kricsfalusy V. 2015. Traditional grassland management and surrounding land use drive the abundance of a prairie plant species in an urban landscape. Landscape and Urban Planning, 142: 1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.04.006

Fischer, T. and Noble, B.F. 2015. Impact assessment research: Achievements, gaps and future directions. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, 17(1): 1501001. doi: 10.1142/S1464333215010012

Flahr, L.M., Michel, N.L., Zahara, A.R.D., Jones, P.D., and Morrissey, C.A. 2015. Developmental exposure to Aro-clor 1254 alters migratory behaviour in juvenile European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). Environmental Science and Technology 49(10): 6274-83. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.5b01185

Fleming, C.J., McCartha, E.B., and Steelman, T.A. 2015. Conflict and collaboration in wildfire management: the role of mission alignment. Public Administration Review, 75(3): 445-454. doi: 10.1111/puar.12353

Geris, J., Tetzlaff, D., McDonnell, J.J., and Soulsby, C. 2015. The relative role of soil type and tree cover on water storage and transmission in northern headwater catchments. Hydrological Processes, 29(7): 1844–1860. doi: 10.1002/hyp.10289

Green, D.J., Whitehorne, I.B.J., Middleton, H.A., and Morrissey, C.A. 2015. Do American Dippers obtain a survival benefit from altitudinal migration? PLoS ONE 10(4): e0125734. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125734

Hanna, K. and Noble, B.F. 2015. Using a Delphi study to identify effectiveness criteria for impact assessment. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 33(2): 116‐125. doi: 10.1080/14615517.2014.992672

Hanson, J.O., Salisbury, S.W., Campbell, H.A., Dwyer, R.G., Jardine, T.D., and Franklin, C.E. 2015. Feeding across the food web: the interaction between diet, movement and body size in estuarine crocodiles (Crocodylus poro-sus). Austral Ecology, 40: 275-286. doi: 10.1111/aec.12212

Hassanzadeh, E., Elshorbagy, A., Wheater, H.S., and Gober, P. 2014. Managing water in complex systems: An integrated water resources model for Saskatchewan, Canada. Environmental Modelling & Software, 58: 12-26. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.03.015.

Janz, D., Liber, K., Pickering, I., Wiramanaden, C., Weech, S., Gallego-Gallegos, M., Driessnack, M., Franz, E., Goertzen, M., Phibbs, J., Tse, J., Himbeault, K., Robertson, E., Burnett-Seidel, C., England, K., and Gent A. 2014. In-tegrative assessment of selenium speciation, biogeochemistry and distribution in a northern coldwater ecosys-tem. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 10: 543-554. doi: 10.1002/ieam.1560

Janzen, D. and McDonnell, J.J. 2015. A stochastic approach to modelling and understanding hillslope runoff connectivity dynamics. Ecological Modelling, 298: 64-74. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.06.024

Jasechko, S., Birks, S.J., Gleeson, T., Wada, Y., Fawcett, P.J., Sharp, Z.D., McDonnell, J.J., and Welker, J.M. 2014. The pronounced seasonality of global groundwater recharge, Water Resources Research, 50(11): 8845–8867. doi: 10.1002/2014WR015809

Jardine, T.D., Bond, N.R., Burford, M.A., Kennard, M.J., Ward, D.P., Bayliss, P., Davies, P.M., Douglas, M.M., Hamilton, S.K., Melack, J.M., Naiman, R.J., Pettit, N.E., Pusey, B.J., Warfe, D.M., and Bunn, S.E. 2015. Does flood rhythm drive ecosystem responses in tropical riverscapes? Ecology, 96: 684-692. doi: 10.1890/14-0991.1

Jardine, T.D., Woods, R., Marshall, J., Fawcett, J., Lobegeiger, J., Valdez, D., and Kainz, M.J. 2015. Reconciling the role of organic matter pathways in aquatic food webs by measuring multiple tracers in individuals. Ecology, 96(12): 3257–3269. doi: 10.1890/14-2153.1

Khaliq, M.N., Sushama, L., Monette, A. and Wheater, H.S. 2015. Seasonal and extreme precipitation character-istics for the watersheds of the Canadian Prairie Provinces as simulated by the NARCCAP multi-RCM ensemble. Climate Dynamics, 44: 255-277. doi: 10.1007/s00382-014-2235-0.

Kidd, K.A., Paterson, M.J., Rennie, M.D., Podemski, C.L., Findlay, D.L., Blanchfield, P.J., and Liber, K. 2014. Direct and indirect responses of a freshwater food web to a potent synthetic estrogen. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B on Pharmaceuticals in the Environment, 369(1656): 20130578. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0578

Klaus, J., Chun, K.P., McGuire, K.J., and McDonnell, J.J. 2015. Temporal dynamics of catchment transit times from stable isotope data. Water Resources Research, 51(6): 4208–4223. doi: 10.1002/2014WR016247

Klaus, J., McDonnell, J.J., Jackson, C.R., Du, E., and Griffiths, N. 2014. Where does streamwater come from in low relief forested watersheds? A dual isotope approach. Hydrology and Earth System Science, 11: 2613-2638. doi: 10.5194/hessd-11-2613-2014

Kricsfalusy, V. 2015. Taxonomy and phylogeny of Anemone patens L. sensu lato (Ranunculaceae): A critical review. Thaiszia Journal of Botany, 25(2): 153-164.

Kricsfalusy, V. and Trevisan, N. 2014. Prioritizing regionally rare plant species for conservation using herbari-um data. Biodiversity and Conservation, 23: 39–61. doi: 10.1007/s10531-013-0583-4

Laine-Kaulio, H., Backnäs, S., Karvonen, T., Koivusalo, H., and McDonnell, J.J. 2014. Lateral subsurface storm-flow and solute transport in a forested hillslope: A combined measurement and modeling approach. Water Resources Research, 50(10): 8159–8178. doi: 10.1002/2014WR015381

Leung, W., Noble, B.F., Gunn, K., and Jaeger, J. 2015. A review of uncertainty research in impact assessment. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 50: 116‐123. doi: 10.1016/j.eiar.2014.09.005

Li, Y. and Carbone, R.E., 2015: Offshore propagation of coastal precipitation. Journal of Atmospheric Science, 72(12): 4553–4568. doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-15-0104.1

Lindenschmidt, K.-E. and Das, A. 2015. A geospatial model to determine patterns of ice cover breakup along the Slave River. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 42(9): 675-685. doi: 10.1139/cjce-2014-0377

Lindenschmidt, K.-E. and Carstensen, D. 2015. The upper Qu’Appelle water supply project in Saskatchewan, Canada – Upland Canal ice study. Österreichische Wasser- und Abfallwirtschaft, 67(5-6): 230-239. doi: 10.1007/s00506-015-0235-x

Lindenschmidt, K.-E. and Sereda, J. 2014. The impact of macrophytes on winter flows along the Upper Qu’Appelle River. Canadian Water Resources Journal, 39(3): 342-355. doi: 10.1080/07011784.2014.942165

Liu, Q., Tang, J., Bai, Z., Hecker, M., and Giesy, J.P. 2015. Distribution of petroleum degrading genes and fac-tor analysis of petroleum contaminated soil from the Dagang Oilfield, China. Scientific Reports, 5: 11068. doi: 10.1038/srep11068

Liu, H., Tang, S., Zheng, X., Zhu, Y., Ma, Z., Liu, C., Hecker, M., Saunders, D., Giesy, J.P., Zhang, X., and Yu, H. 2015. Bioaccumulation, biotransformation and toxicity of BDE-47, 6-OH-BDE-47 and 6-MeO-BDE-47 in early life-stages of zebrafish (Danio rerio). Environmental Science and Technology, 49(3): 1823-1833. doi: 10.1021/es503833q

Loring, P.A. and Gerlach, S.C. 2015. Searching for progress on food security in the North American north. Arctic, 68(3): 380-392. doi: 10.14430/arctic4509

Lucas, B.T., Liber, K., and Doig, L.E. 2015. Reconstructing diatom and chironomid assemblages to infer environ-mental spatiotemporal trends within Lake Diefenbaker, a narrow river-valley reservoir on the Canadian Prairies. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 41(Supp. 2): 45–55. doi: 10.1016/j.jglr.2015.09.003

Lucas, B.T., Liber, K., and Doig, L.E. 2015. Reconstructing temporal trends in reservoir productivity and nutri-ent availability within Lake Diefenbaker, a Great Plains reservoir, using depositional sediments. Journal of Great

Lakes Research, 41(Supp. 2): 67-80. doi: 10.1016/j.jglr.2015.07.009

Maavara, T., Hood, J.L.A., North, R.L., Doig, L.E., Parsons, C.T., Johansson, J., Liber, K., Hudson, J.F., Lucas, B.T., Van-dergucht, D.M., and Van Cappellen, P. 2015. Reactive silicon dynamics in a large prairie reservoir (Lake Diefen-baker, Saskatchewan). Journal of Great Lakes Research, 41(Supp. 2): 100-109. doi: 10.1016/j.jglr.2015.04.003

Main, A.R., Michel, N.L., Headley, J.V., Peru, K.M., and Morrissey, C.A. 2015. Ecological and landscape drivers of neonicotinoid insecticide detections and concentrations in Canada’s Prairie wetlands. Environmental Science and Technology, 49(14): 8367–8376. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.5b01287

Maletz, S., Wollenweber, M., Kubiak, K., Müller, A., Schmitz, S., Maier, D., Hecker, M., and Hollert H. 2015. Inves-tigation of potential endocrine disrupting effects of mosquito larvicidal Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti) formulations. Science of the Total Environment, 536: 729-738. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.07.053

Małgorzata D., Bell, T., Laroque, C., Diegor, W., Lam, R., and Sylvester, P. 2014. Przykład wykorzystania analizy przyrostów rocznych drzew metodą ablacji laserowej (LA ICP-MS) w badaniach zanieczyszczenia środowiska ołowiem. [Polish with English abstract - Example of an application of tree ring laser ablation analysis (LA ICP-MS) in studies of environmental lead pollution] Studia i Materiały CEPL w Rogowie [Proceedings of the Center for Nature and Forestry Education], 40: 265-272.

Martínez-Carreras, N. Wetzel, C.E., Frentress, J., Ector, L., McDonnell, J.J., Hoffmann, L. and Pfister, L. 2015. Hydro-logic connectivity as indicated by transport of diatoms through the riparian-stream system. Hydrology and Earth System Science, 12(2): 2391-2434. doi: 10.5194/hessd-12-2391-2015

Masud, M.B., Khaliq, M.N. and Wheater, H.S. 2015. Analysis of meteorological droughts for the Saskatchewan River Basin using univariate and bivariate approaches. Journal of Hydrology, 522: 452-466. doi: 10.1016/j.jhy-drol.2014.12.058

McDonnell, J.J. 2014. The two water worlds hypothesis: Ecohydrological separation of water between streams and trees? Wires Water, 1(4): 323-329. doi: 10.1002/water2.1027

McDonnell, J.J. and Beven, K. 2014. A call to action aimed at understanding velocities, celerities and resi-dence time distributions of the headwater hydrograph. Water Resources Research, 50: 5342–5350. doi: 10.1002/2013WR015141

McIntyre, N., Ballard, C., Bruen, M., Bulygina, N., Buytaert, W., Cluckie, I., Dunn, S., Ehret, U., Ewen, J., Gelfan, A., Hess, T., Hughes, D., Jackson, B., Kjeldsen, T.R., Merz, R., Park, J-S., O’Connell, E., O’Donnell, G., Oudin, L., Todini, E., Wagener, T., and Wheater, H.S. 2014. Modelling the hydrological impacts of rural land use change. Hydrology Research, 45(6): 737-754. doi: 10.2166/nh2013.145

Morrissey, C.A., Mineau, P., Devries, J., Sanchez-Bayo, F., Liess, M., Cavallaro, M., Liber, K. 2015. Neonicotinoid contamination of surface waters and relative risks to aquatic invertebrates: a review. Environment International, 74: 291-303. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2014.10.024

Nazemi, A. and Wheater, H.S. 2014. Assessing the vulnerability of water supply to changing streamflow condi-tions. Eos – Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 95(32): 288. doi: 10.1002/2014EO320007

Nazemi, A. and Wheater, H.S. 2015. On inclusion of water resource management in Earth System models – Part 1: Problem definition and representation on water demand. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 19: 33-61. doi: 10.5194/hess-19-33-2015

Nazemi, A. and Wheater, H.S. 2015. On inclusion of water resource management in Earth System models – Part 2: Representation of water supply and allocation and opportunities for improved modeling. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 19: 63-90. doi: 10.5193/hess-19-63-2015

Noble, B.F. 2015. Cumulative effects research: Achievements, status, directions and challenges in the Ca-nadian context. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, 17(1): 1550001. doi: 10.1142/

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Noble, B.F. and Basnet, P. 2015. Capacity for watershed cumulative effects assessment and management in the South Saskatchewan Watershed, Canada. Canadian Water Resources Journal, 40(2): 187‐203. doi: 10.1080/07011784.2015.1019568

Noble, B.F. and Hanna, K. 2015. Environmental assessment in the Arctic: a gap analysis and research agenda. Arctic, 68(3): 341-355. doi: 10.14430/arctic4501

North, R.L., Johansson, J., Vandergucht, D., Doig, L, Liber, K., Lindenschmidt, K.-E., Baulch, H., and Hudson, J.J. 2015. Evidence for internal phosphorus loading in a large prairie reservoir (Lake Diefenbaker, Saskatchewan). Journal of Great Lakes Research, 41(Supp. 2): 91-99. doi: 10.1016/j.jglr.2015.07.003

Nowell, B. and Steelman, T. 2014. Communication under fire: emergence, embeddedness and performance in disaster response networks. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. doi: 10.1093/jopart/muu021

Painter, K.J., Westbrook, C.J., Hall, B.D., O’Driscoll, N.J., and Jardine, T.D. 2015. Effects of in-channel beaver impoundments on mercury bioaccumulation in Rocky Mountain stream food webs. Ecosphere, 6(10): 1-17. doi: 10.1890/ES15-00167

Pangle, L.A., Gregg, J.W., and McDonnell, J.J. 2014. Rainfall seasonality and an ecohydrological feedback offset the potential impact of climate warming on evapotranspiration and groundwater recharge. Water Resources Research, 50(2): 1308-1321. doi: 10.1002/2012WR013253

Pfister, L., Wetzel, C.E., Martínez-Carreras, N., Iffly, J.F., Klaus, J., Holko, L., and McDonnell, J.J. 2015. Examination of aerial diatom flushing across watersheds in Luxembourg, Oregon and Slovakia for tracing episodic hydrologi-cal connectivity. Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, 63(3): 235–245. doi: 10.1515/johh-2015-0031

Pisa, L. and 18 others (incl Morrissey, C.A.) 2015. Effects of neonicotinoids and fipronil on non-target inverte-brates. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 22(1): 68-102. doi: 10.1007/s11356-014-3471-x

Purton, K., Pennock, D.J., and Walley, F.L. 2015. Will changes in climate and land use affect soil organic matter composition? Evidence from an ecotonal climosequence. Geoderma. 253–254: 48–60. doi: 10.1016/j.geoder-ma.2015.04.007

Qin, G., Xiong, Y., Tang, S., Zhao, P., Doering, J.A., Beitel, S.C., Hecker, M., Wang, M., Liu, H., Lu, H., and Du, H. 2015. Impact of predator cues on responses to silver nanoparticles in Daphnia carinata. Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 69(4): 494-505. doi: 10.1007/s00244-015-0165-4

Razavi, S., Elshorbagy, A., Wheater, H., and Sauchyn, D. 2015. Toward understanding nonstationarity in climate and hydrology through tree ring proxy records, Water Resources Research, 51(3): 1813–1830. doi: 10.1002/2014WR015696

Reed, M.G., Godmaire, H., Abernethy, P. and Guertin, M.A. 2014. Building a community of practice for sustain-ability: strengthening learning and collective action of Canadian Biosphere Reserves through a national part-nership. Journal of Environmental Management, 145: 230-239. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.06.030

Reed, M.G., Godmaire, H., Guertin, M.A., Potvin, D. and Abernethy, P. 2015. Engaged Scholarship: Reflections from a multi-talented, national partnership seeking to strengthen capacity for sustainability. Engaged Scholar Journal, 1: 167-183. doi: 10.15402/esj.v1i1.28

Sagin, J., Sizo, A., Wheater, H., Jardine, T.D., and Lindenschmidt, K.-E. 2015. A water coverage extraction tool for optical satellite data: application in a large river delta. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 36(3): 764-781. doi: 10.1080/01431161.2014.1001084

Segond, M.-L., Wheater, H.S. and Onof, C. 2014. The significance of spatial rainfall representation for flood run-off estimation: A numerical evaluation based on the Lee catchment, UK Journal of Hydrology, 347(1-2): 116-131.doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.09.040

Seibert, J. and McDonnell, J.J., 2014. Gauging the ungauged basin: relative value of soft and hard data. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 20(1): A4014004. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)HE.1943-5584.0000861

Sizo, A, Noble, B.F., and Bell, S. 2015. Futures analysis of urban land use and wetland change in Saskatoon, Canada: An application in strategic environmental assessment. Sustainability, 7(1), 811-830. doi: 10.3390/su7010811

Steelman, T.A., McCaffrey, S.M., Knox Velez, A.-L., and Briefel, J.A. 2015. What information do people use, trust, and find useful during a disaster? Evidence from five large wildfires. Natural Hazards, 76(1): 615-634. doi: 10.1007/s11069-014-1512-x

Strickert, G., Chun, K.P., Bradford, L.E.A., Clark, D.A., Gober, P., Reed, M., and Payton, D. 2015. Unpacking viewpoints on water security: lessons from the South Saskatchewan River Basin. Water Policy. doi: 10.2166/wp.2015.195

Tompsett, A.R., Higley, E., Pryce, S., Giesy, J.P., Hecker, M., and Wiseman, S. 2014. Transcriptional changes in Afri-can clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) exposed to 17alpha-ethynylestradiol during early development. Ecotoxicology, 24: 321–329. doi: 10.1007/s10646-014-1380-x

Tompsett, A.R., Vardy, D.W., Higley, E., Doering, J.A., Allen, M., Liber, K., Hecker, M. and Giesy, J.P. 2014. Effects of Columbia River water on early life-stages of white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus). Ecotoxicology and Envi-ronmental Safety, 101: 23-30. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2013.12.004

Tse, T.J., Codling, G., Jones, P.D., Thoms, K., Liber, K., Giesy, J.P., Wheater, H., and Doig, L.E. 2014. Reconstructing long-term trends in municipal sewage discharge into a small lake in northern Manitoba, Canada. Chemosphere, 103: 299-305. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.12.019

Udofia, A., Noble, B.F., and Poelzer, G. 2015. Community engagement in environmental assessment for re-source development: benefits, enduring concerns, opportunities for improvement. Northern Review, 39: 98-110.

Van der Sluijs, J.P. and 29 others alphabetically (incl. Morrissey, C.A.) 2015. Conclusions of the Worldwide Integrated Assessment on the risks of neonicotinoids and fipronil to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 22(1): 148-154. doi: 10.1007/s11356-014-3229-5

Villeneuve, D.L., Crump, D., Garcia-Reyero, N., Hecker, M., Hutchinson, T., LaLone, C.A., Landesmann, B., Lettieri, T., Munn, S., Nepelska, M., Ottinger, M.A., Vergauwen, L., Whelan, M. 2014. Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) development I: strategies and principles. Toxicological Sciences, 142(2): 312-320. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfu199

Villeneuve, D.L., Crump, D., Garcia-Reyero, N., Hecker, M., Hutchinson, T., LaLone, C.A., Landesmann, B., Lettieri, T., Munn, S., Nepelska, M., Ottinger, M.A., Vergauwen, L., and Whelan, M. 2014. Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) development II: best practices. Toxicological Sciences, 142(2): 321-330. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfu200

Weber, D.S., Mandler, T., Dyck, M., Van Coeverden De Groot, P.J., Lee, D.S., and Clark, D.A. 2015. Unexpected and undesired conservation outcomes of wildlife trade bans—an emerging problem for stakeholders? Global Ecol-ogy and Conservation, 3: 389-400. doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2015.01.006

Whitfield, C.J., Baulch, H.M., Chun, K.P., and Westbrook, C.J. 2015. Beaver-mediated methane emission: The effects of population growth in Eurasia and the Americas. Ambio, 44(1): 7-15. doi: 10.1007/s13280-014-0575-y

Zahara, A.R.D., Michel, N.L., Flahr, L.M., Ejack, L.E., and Morrissey, C.A. 2015. Latent cognitive effects from low-level polychlorinated biphenyl exposure in juvenile European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris. Environmental Toxicol-ogy and Chemistry, 34(11): 2513–2522. doi: 10.1002/etc.3084

Papers in Non-Refereed JournalsReed, M.G. 2015. Report of the International Symposium on Community Based Management of Forest Resourc-es: perspectives on culture, learning and adaptation in Canada and Japan. Forestry Chronicle.

Steelman, T., Nowell, B., FitzGerald, C., and Hano, M.C. 2015. Social ‘watch out’ situations for incident manage-ment teams. Wildfire, 24(2):14-17.

Contributed (Non-Invited) Papers/Abstracts in Published Conference ProceedingsAli, M., Nussbaumer, R., Ireson, A.M., and Keim, D., 2015. Modelling of seasonal dynamics of wetland-ground-water interaction in the Canadian prairies. European Geophysical Union Meeting, Vienna, Austria. April, 2015.

Appels, W.M., Ireson, A.M., Barbour, S.L., and McDonnell, J.J. 2015. Evolution of hydrological pathways in en-gineered hillslopes due to soil and vegetation development. Joint AGU/CGU meeting, Montreal, QC. May, 2015.

Appels, W.M., Ireson, A.M., Barbour, S.L., and McDonnell, J.J., 2015. Evolution of hydrological pathways in engineered hillslopes due to soil and vegetation development. European Geophysical Union Meeting, Vienna, Austria. April, 2015.

Chen, L., Li, Y., Chen, F., Barr, A., Barlage, M., and Wan, B. 2015. The incorporation of organic layer in Noah–MP Land Surface Model and its evaluation over Boreal Old Aspen Forest flux site. NCAR 16th Annual WRF Users’ Workshop, Boulder, CO. June 17, 2015.

Ireson, A.M., and Butler, A.P. 2014. Learning from models: Insights into the behavior of water in unsaturated fractured porous media. American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA. December, 2014.

Ireson, A.M. 2014. Modelling infiltration processes in frozen soils. American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA. December, 2014.

Janzen, D. and Ireson A.M. 2014. Exploring groundwater processes in Rocky Mountain headwaters. American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA. December, 2014.

Kricsfalusy, V. 2015. Life-history variation in populations of the prairie crocus (Anemone patens L.). In: Botany 2015. Science and Plants for People. p. 647. Edmonton, AB.

Kricsfalusy, V., Li, M., and Gupta, C. 2015. Combining regional data on plant species distribution to support biodiversity assessment. Botany 2015. Science and Plants for People. Edmonton, AB.

Laroque, C.P., Davis, E., and Mood, B.J. Forecasting radial growth in shelterbelt trees across southern Saskatch-ewan. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers. Vancouver, BC. June 1-6, 2015.

Li, M., Howitt, N., and Kricsfalusy, V. 2015. Evaluating the impact of prescribed burning on the invasion of woody vegetation into grasslands in Northeast Swale, Saskatoon. 2015 Native Prairie Restoration/Reclamation Workshop: The Building Blocks of Restoration. Saskatoon, SK.

Li, Y., Sezto, K., Stewart, R., Theriault, J., Zhang, X., Kochtubajda, B., Boodoo, S., Goodson R., and Liu, A. 2014. The June 2013 Alberta Catastrophic Flooding: Water vapor transport analysis by WRF simulation. 16th Conference on Mountain Meteorology, San Diego, CA. August 19, 2014.

Li, Y., Elsaesser, G., Carbone, R.E., and Kummerow, C. 2014. Characteristics of the precipitation event life cycle in the tropical Pacific. 7th International Scientific Conference on the Global Water and Energy Cycle, The Hague, Netherlands. July 15, 2014.

Lubieniechi, S., Smyth, S., Hesseln, H., and Phillips, P. 2015. Assessing consumer and regulator risk preferences. 2015. 19th ICABR Conference, Impacts of the Bioeconomy on Agricultural Sustainability, the Environment and Human Health, Ravello, Italy. June 16-19, 2015.

Maillet, J. and Laroque, C.P. 2015. From annual to intra-annual: exploring the radial growth-climate relation-ship with high resolution data. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers. Vancouver, BC. June 1-6, 2015.

Maillet, J. and Laroque, C.P. 2015. Watching trees grow: the use of intra-annual measures of radial-growth in dendroclimatological studies. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution. Saskatoon, SK. May 21-25, 2015.

Millette, V., Marleau, N., Ansdell, K., and Laroque, C.P. 2014. Basalt composition at an old mine site in Saskatch-ewan: is there a link with soil composition and tree growth? Annual Saskatchewan Geological Survey Open House, Saskatoon SK. December, 2014.

Pan, X., Helgason, W., and Ireson, A.M., 2015. Characterization of field-scale water balance components at a heterogeneous prairie field site. Joint AGU/CGU meeting in Montreal, QC, May 2015.

Peterson, A., Helgason, W., and Ireson, A.M., 2014. Examining soil moisture variability and field mean estimation methods using nested observations. American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA. December, 2014.

Scaff, L., Yang, D., and Li, Y. 2014. Inconsistency of precipitation measurements across Alaska and Yukon bor-der. CCRN Early Career Researcher Network (ECRN), Waterloo, ON. October 19, 2014.

Scaff L., Yang, D., Li, Y., and Mekis, E. 2015. Inconsistencies in precipitation measurements across Alaska and Yukon Border. 49th CMOS Congress and 13th AMS Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, Whis-tler, BC. June 1, 2015.

Šibík, J., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Puscas, M., Kricsfalusy, V., and Theurillat, J.-P. et al. 2015. Siliceous alpine grasslands in Europe. 58th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS): Understand-ing Broad-scale Vegetation Patterns: Abstracts, p. 208. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Šibík J., Jiménez-Alfaro B., Puscas M., Kricsfalusy V., Theurillat J.-P. et al. 2015. Variability, chorology and species composition of alpine siliceous grasslands in European mountains. 24th International Workshop of European Vegetation Survey: Abstracts, p. 122. University of Rennes, Rennes, France.

Vermette, M. and Hesseln, H. 2015. Assessing the economic benefits of co-operation among small forest operators: A Saskatchewan case study. Western Forest Economists and International Society of Forest Resource Economics 2015 Meeting, Vancouver, BC. May 31 - June 2, 2015.

Wheater, H., Khaliq, N., Chun, K., Barr, A., Ireson, A., Bartlett, P., MacKay, M., Pernica, P., and Li, Y. 2015. Im-provement of land surface schemes for cold region processes: recent results from the Changing Cold Regions Network in western Canada, 2015 CGU Annual Meeting, Joint Assembly of AGU/CGU, Montréal, QC. May 5, 2015.

Yetemen, O., Ireson, A.M., Johnstone, J., Barr, A., and Black, A. 2015. Comparing observed and simulated interannual variability in the carbon and water balances of the southern boreal forest. Joint AGU/CGU meeting, Montreal, QC. May 2015.

Yu, Q., Pan, X., You, Y., Guo, L., and Li Y. 2014. Effect of permafrost degradation on the development of the rainfall-controlling thermokarst ponds on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA. De-cember 18, 2014.

Zhao, Z. and Kricsfalusy, V. 2015. Assessment of the current threat of aquatic invasive species in Saskatchewan. 2015 Native Prairie Restoration/Reclamation Workshop: The Building Blocks of Restoration. Saskatoon, SK.

Invited Papers/Abstracts in Published Conference ProceedingsRazavi, S. 2015. Sensitivity analysis for hydrological inferences. Discussion meeting on quantification and reduction of uncertainties in hydrological inferences. Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (Coorg), India. February 26-28, 2015.

Technical Reports Relevant to Academic FieldLi, Y. 2014. Projection of Extreme Rainfall Events under Climate Change as Simulated by High-resolution Re-gional Climate Model. Final report for Environment Canada, Ontario, C7251, September, 2014.

Liber, K., Carter, C., Townsend, M., and Wang, X. 2014. Analysis of River Otter (Lontra canadensis) Livers and Kidneys from Northern Saskatchewan for Metals and Trace Elements via ICP-MS: 2013 Samples. Report for Sas-katchewan Environment, Regina, SK, Canada.

Lindenschmidt, K.-E. 2014. Upper Qu’Appelle Water Supply Project – Upland Canal Ice Study. Report submit-

ted to the Water Security Agency, 20 June 2014.

Loring, P.A., Gerlach S.C., and Betcher, S. 2015. Sea Ice Secure: Tied to the Land Film Series. https://www.you-tube.com/watch?v=3hK7Je6jljALoring, P.A., Gerlach S.C., and Betcher, S. 2015. Stored in the Country: Tied to the Land Film Series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNAnPbof6gA

Loring, P.A., Gerlach S.C., and Betcher, S. 2015. Grocery Store of our People: Tied to the Land Film Series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4h4CiQbskI

Loring, P.A., Gerlach S.C., and Betcher, S. 2015. Adapting in the Arctic: Tied to the Land Film Series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hNPGKygxb0

Noble, B.F. and Martin, J. 2015. The State of Knowledge Regarding Significance Determination. Report com-missioned by the Yukon Government, Yukon Environmental and Socio‐economic Assessment Board, 48 pp.

Walley, F. and Farrell, R.E. 2015. Assessment of Urease and Nitrification Inhibitors for Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency and Yield in Forage Seed Production. Agriculture Development Fund Project #20100067, Final Report, May 25, 2015. 47 pp.

Walley, F.L. and Germida, J.J. 2015. Assessment of Mycorrhizal Fungal Inoculants for Pulse Crop Production Systems. NSERC CRDPJ 412776 – 2011 Final report. May 31, 2015. 37 pp.

Walley, F.L. and Germida, J.J. 2015. Assessment of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Inoculants for Pulse Produc-tion Systems. Saskatchewan Pulse Growers Project #AGR1006 Final Report, June 1, 2015. 85 pp.

Walley, F.L. and Germida, J.J. 2015. Assessment of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Inoculants for Flax Produc-tion. Agriculture Development Fund Project #20110168, Final Report, July 10, 2015. 67 pp.

Invited Lectures (Outside the U of S) and Invited Conference PresentationsBelcher, K. and Dias, V. 2014. Ecosystem goods and services from prairie wetlands: valuation and tradeoffs. International Society for Ecological Economics Biennial Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland. August, 2014.

Belcher, K. 2014. Agri-environmental policy research. Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture, Agriculture Re-search Review. Saskatoon, SK. November, 2014.

Buchanan, A. 2014. Gender and the adaptive capacity of Swedish reindeer herders. For the Conference cel-ebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Vilhelmina Model Forest, Vilhelmina, Sweden. October 29, 2014.

Bullock, R. and Reed, M.G. 2015. Remodeling Canada’s model forests: interpreting program change 1992-2012. International Symposium on Community-based Management of Forest Resources: Perspectives on culture, learning and adaptation in Canada and Japan, Presentations by invitation only. Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan. March 3-5, 2015.

Hesseln, H. 2015. Innovation in the Canadian forest sector? Calotte Academy – Rovaniemi and Inari, Finland, Apatity and Murmansk, Russia, and Kirkenes, Norway.

Jardine, T.D. 2014. Long-term changes in hydro-ecology and socio-economy in the Saskatchewan River Delta. Partners for the Saskatchewan River Basin: Long-Term Threats to the Saskatchewan River Basin, Saskatoon, SK. October 28, 2014.

Jardine, T.D. 2014. Mercury in Cumberland Lake. Cumberland House Fisherman’s Co-op. Cumberland House, SK. August 22, 2014.

Jardine, T.D. 2014. Water, wildlife and people. Saskatchewan River Delta Symposium, Northern Village of Cum-berland House, Cumberland House, SK. July 31, 2014.

Kricsfalusy, V. and Zhao, Z. Aquatic invasive species workshop: understanding the issues. Prairie Water Work-ing Group, Saskatoon, SK. February 11, 2015.

Sinclair, A.J. and Reed, M.G. 2015. Learning outcomes of community forest governance approaches in Canada.

International Symposium on Community-based Management of Forest Resources: Perspectives on culture, learning and adaptation in Canada and Japan, Presentations by invitation only. Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan. March 3-5, 2015.

Li, Y. 2014. WRF simulation of 2013 Alberta flooding. Second Annual General Meeting of the Changing Cold Regions Network, Waterloo, ON. October 20, 2014.

Li, Y. 2014. Land-surface modeling of BERMS sites and its application to regional climate modeling. CCRN modeling workshop, Saskatoon, SK. September 15, 2014.

Li, Y. 2014. Characteristics of the precipitation event life cycle in the tropical Pacific. International Conference on Mesoscale Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones, Boulder, CO. September 18, 2014.

Li, Y. 2015. Future work for the Canadian part of continental WRF run. Research Applications Laboratory, NCAR, Boulder, CO. July 2, 2015.

Liber, K. 2014. Sampling and assessment of metal-contaminated sediments. Institute of Loess Plateau, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China. November 28, 2014.

Loring, P.A. Four futures for the Arctic: governance, development, and human rights at the nexus of water, en-ergy, food, and climate. The Food-Water-Energy Nexus, a Pre-conference to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 10th Annual Rural Development Conference, Memphis, TN. May 18, 2015.

McDonnell, J.J. 2014. Critical zone hydrology. Geological Society of America. Vancouver, BC. October, 2014.

McDonnell, J.J. 2014. Hydropedology. Soil Science Society of America. Long Beach, CA. November, 2014.

McDonnell, J.J. 2014. Ecohydrological change. American Geophysical Union. San Francisco, CA. December, 2014.

McDonnell, J.J. 2015. PEDOFRACT soil science workshop, Coruña, Spain. June, 2015.

Mingle, J. and Belcher, K. 2015. Off-site benefits of agricultural BMPs. South Tobacco Creek Annual Meeting, Winnipeg, MB. May, 2015.

Morrissey, C.A., Mineau, P., Devries, J., Sanchez-Bayo, F., Liess, M., Cavallaro, M., and Liber, K. 2014. Evaluation of worldwide contamination of surface waters and relative risks to aquatic invertebrates from neonicotinoid insecticides. Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. Vancouver, BC. November, 2014.

Nowell, B., and Steelman, T. 2014. Assessing and managing social risks. PSW Research Meeting, Riverside, CA. December, 2014.

Nowell, B., and Steelman, T. 2015. Fire chasers project. Fire Workshop, Yellowknife, NT. January, 2015.

Razavi, S. 2015. Sensitivity analysis for hydrological inferences. Discussion meeting on quantification and reduction of uncertainties in hydrological inferences, invited and sponsored by the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (Coorg), India. February 26-28, 2015.

Reed, M.G. 2014. Model forest networks: the work of the Prince Albert Model Forest in Canada. Kyoto Model Forest Promotion Meeting and Awards Ceremony. January 26, 2015.

Reed, M.G., 2014. Learning with Canadian Biosphere Reserves: connecting researchers and practitioners through a national community of practice. Knowledge Translation: Bridging Gaps between Science and Society. First International Symposium of the ILEK (Integrated Local Ecological Knowledge) Programme. Research Insti-tute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto. Japan, September 13-14, 2014.

Reed, M.G. 2014. Terms of engagement: gender, class and racialized identities in sustainable forest manage-ment. Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umea, Swe-den. October 1, 2014.

Reed, M.G. 2014. Learning about sustainability practices with local communities, biosphere reserves & the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. Canadian Commission for UNESCO, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Sponsored by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. Ottawa, ON, November 4, 2014.

Reed, M.G. 2014. How to link gender and climate change adaptation in Canadian forest-based communities: results of a Canadian-Swedish workshop. Conference Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Vilhelmina Model Forest, Vilhelmina, Sweden. October 29, 2014.

Reed, M.G. 2014. Invited participant to the inaugural national forum of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Imagining Canada’s Future. A national forum for policy-makers and thought leaders in the government, business, academic and not-for-profit sectors. Co-sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canarie, Compute Canada and the National Arts Centre. National Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON. November 3, 2014.

Reed, M.G. 2015. The gendered labours of adaptation to climate change in forest-based communities. Interna-tional Workshop entitled, Gender, Climate Change, and Work in Rich Countries. Hosted by Simon Fraser Univer-sity, Harbour Centre, Vancouver, BC. June 24-26, 2015.

Reed, M.G. 2015. Learning from Kyoto Model Forest: opportunities for exchange and partnership. Board of the Prince Albert Model Forest. May 20, 2015.

Steelman, T. 2014. Wildfire policy within a socio-ecological system. NSF-Joint Fire Science sponsored work-shop on Coupled Human and Natural Systems, Bend, OR. August 4-7, 2014.

Steelman, T. 2015. An update on the Delta Dialogue Network: where we have been, where we are going. Peace-Athabasca Delta Ecological Monitoring Program Meetings, Fort Chipewyan, AB. February 10-11, 2015.

Steelman, T. and Nowell, B. 2015. Managing wildfire networks: brokering relationships and mission conflict. Area Commanders/Incident Commanders National Workshop, Phoenix, AZ. March, 2015.

Steelman, T.A. 2015. Wildfire policy as a socio-ecological problem. 13th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit and 4th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference, Boise, ID. April, 2015.

Steelman, T.A., and Nowell, B. 2015. Managing wildfire networks: brokering relationships and mission conflict. Webinar for U.S. Forest Service, Public Affairs. May 21, 2015.

Steelman, T.A. 2014. Interdisciplinary training at the U of S School of Environment and Sustainability. One Health: Team Science in Action, Saskatoon, SK. October 19, 2015.

Welter, S., Reed, M.G., and Gamble, A. 2014. Stretching community based ecosystem management to protect Indigenous livelihoods: The Beardy’s and Okemasis First Nation and the Prince Albert Model Forest. XXIV IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations) World Congress 2014 Ecosystem services under Pressure: Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research, Salt Lake City, UT. October 5-11, 2014.

Wiseman S., Higley E., Giesy J., Jones P., and Yuan H. 2014. Effect director analysis: A novel approach for the assessment of complex mixtures of contaminants. 41st Aquatic Toxicity Workshop, Ottawa, ON. September 28 - October 1, 2014.

Contributed (Non-Invited) Papers/Abstracts at ConferencesAbu, R. and Reed, M.G. 2014. The socio-cultural values of the Saskatchewan River Delta. Socio-Hydrology Sym-posium, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK. September 29, 2014.

Abu, R. and Reed, M.G. 2015. We are all craving for muskrat: integrating valuation of cultural ecosystem services and indigenous well-being to understand the effects of long-term hydro-ecological change in the Saskatchewan River Delta. Canadian Association of Geographers 2015 Annual General Meeting, Vancouver, BC. June 1-5, 2015.

Abu, R. and Reed, M.G. 2015. Indigenous observations of the long term effects of hydro-ecological change in the Saskatchewan River Delta. International Symposium for Society and Resource Management, Charleston, SC. June 13-18, 2015.

Bagatim T., Hanson S., Steeves K., Wiseman S., Jones P., Giesy J., Hontela A., Hogan N., Bragg L., Dhiyebi H., Servos M., Gauthier C, and Hecker, M. Bioassay-directed characterization of endocrine disrupting potencies of municipal effluents in Canada. 41st Aquatic Toxicity Workshop, Ottawa, ON. September 28 - October 1, 2014.

Bagatim T., Hanson S., Steeves K., Wiseman S., Jones P., Giesy J., Hontela A., Hogan N., Bragg L., Dhiyebi H., Servos M., Gauthier C., and Hecker, M. Bioassay-directed characterization of endocrine disrupting potencies of municipal effluents in Canada. SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 9-13, 2014.

Beitel S., Doering J., Patterson S., Eisner B., and Hecker, M. In vitro assessment of the disruption of steroidogen-esis in three North American fish species. 41st Aquatic Toxicity Workshop, Ottawa, ON. September 28 - October 1, 2014.

Berry, P., Belcher, K. and Lindenschmidt, K.-E. 2015. Adapting to climate change on the Canadian Prairies: can on-farm surface water retention systems provide an economically viable water management solution? Ca-nadian Water Resources Association annual conference, Winnipeg, MB. June 2-4, 2015.

Bianchini, K. and Morrissey, C.A. 2015. Investigating the mechanistic links between industrial pollutant expo-sure and impaired pre-migratory fuelling among shorebird species. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Section of The Wildlife Society, Saskatoon, SK. March 15, 2015.

Bianchini, K. and Morrissey, C.A. The initiation and regulation of avian migratory fat deposition and how con-tamination affects pre-migratory fuelling in shorebirds. SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 12, 2014.

Bullock, R., Broad, G., Coates, K., Gamble, A., Gauthier, J., and Steelman, T. 2015. Exploring Aboriginal land man-agement, planning and use. Algoma University. Sault Ste. Marie, ON. May, 2015.

Carr, M.K., Watkinson, D.A. and Lindenschmidt, K.-E. 2015. Identifying links between geomorphic response units (GRU) and fish species distribution in the Assiniboine River, Manitoba. Canadian Water Resources Associa-tion Annual Conference, Winnipeg, MB. June 2-4, 2015.

Cavallaro, M., Main, A., Phillips I., Peru K., Headley J., Liber K., and Morrissey C. 2015. Pesticides and potholes: potential risks neonicointoids pose to aquatic insect communities. WildEcol Seminar Series, Saskatoon, SK. February, 2015.

Cavallaro, M., Peru, K., Headley, J., Morrissey, C., and Liber, K. 2014. Biodiversity and pesticides: effects of chronic neonicotinoid insecticide exposure on aquatic insect emergence in prairie wetlands. The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Vancouver, BC. November 2014.

Cavallaro, M., Phillips, I., Headley, J., Peru, K., Morrissey, C. and Liber, K. 2014. Investigating the impacts of neonicotinoid insecticides on macroinvertebrate communities in limnocorrals in a prairie pond. Joint Entomo-logical Meeting of the Canadian Entomological Society, Saskatoon, SK. October, 2014.

Cavallaro, M.C., Morrissey, C., Headley, J., Peru, K., and Liber, K. 2014. Effects of chronic neonicotinoid insec-ticide exposure on aquatic insect emergence in prairie wetlands. The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry: Prairie Northern Chapter, Saskatoon, SK. June, 2014.

Cavallaro, M., Morrissey, C., Headley, J., Peru, K., and Liber, K. 2014. Effects of chronic neonicotinoid insecti-cide exposure on aquatic insect emergence in prairie wetlands. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chem-istry 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 7-13, 2014.

Cavallaro, M., Phillips, I., Peru, K., Headley, J., Morrissey, C. and Liber, K. 2014. Impacts of neonicotinoid insec-ticides on macroinvertebrate communities in limnocorrals in a Prairie pond. 2014 joint annual meeting of the Entomological Societies of Canada and Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK. September 28 - October 1, 2014.

Crawford, S.E., Emmons, S. and Liber, K. 2015. The role of sediment characteristics in the adsorption and bioa-vailability of uranium(VI) in freshwater sediments. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry B Europe 25th annual meeting, Barcelona, Spain. May 3-7, 2015, and Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry B Prairie Northern Chapter annual meeting, Calgary, AB. June 4-5, 2015.

Crawford, S.E. and Liber, K. 2014. The influence of sediment characteristics on uranium (VI) bioavailability to the freshwater midge, Chironomus dilutus. 41st annual Aquatic Toxicity Workshop, Ottawa, ON. September 28 - October 1, 2014.

Crawford, S.E. and Liber, K. 2014. Assessing the bioavailability and risk of sediment-associated uranium to Chironomus dilutus by varying sediment modifying factors. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 7-13, 2014.

Das, A. and Lindenschmidt, K.-E. 2015. Monitoring ice cover characteristics and behaviour along the Slave River. Canadian Water Resources Association Annual Conference, Winnipeg, MB. June 2-4, 2015.

Doering J., Beitel S., Wiseman S., Farmahin R., Giesy J., Kennedy S., and Hecker, M. 2014. Predicting the sensi-tivity of endangered sturgeons to dioxin-like compounds: molecular investigation into the AhR pathway. 41st Aquatic Toxicity Workshop, Ottawa, ON. September 28 - October 1, 2014.

Doering, J.A., Farmahin, R., Wiseman, S., Kennedy, S., Beitel, S., Giesy, J., and Hecker, M. 2015. Cross-species comparison of relative potencies and relative sensitivities of fishes to dibenzo-p- dioxins, dibenzofurans, and polychlorinated biphenyls in vitro. SETAC Prairie Northern Chapter 6th Annual Meeting, Calgary, AB. June 4-5, 2015.

Doering J., Farmahin R., Wiseman S., Kennedy S., Giesy J., and Hecker, M. Functionality of aryl hydrocarbon re-ceptors (AhR1 and AhR2) of white sturgeon and implications for the risk assessment of dioxin-like compounds. SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 9-13, 2014.

Doering, J., Wiseman, S., Farmahin, R., Giesy, J., Kennedy, S., and Hecker, M. 2014. Functionality of aryl hydro-carbon receptors (AHR1 and AhH2) of white sturgeon and implications for the risk assessment of dioxin-like compounds. 41st Aquatic Toxicity Workshop in Ottawa, ON. September 28 - October 1, 2014.

D’Silva, L.P., Liber, K., Baulch, H., and Doig, L.E. 2014. Phosphorus and arsenic release from sediments collect-ed from a prairie reservoir, Buffalo Pound Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, November 7-13, 2014.

D’Silva, L.P., Liber, K., Baulch, H., and Doig, L.E. 2015. Phosphorus release from sediments collected from a prairie reservoir, Buffalo Pound Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. Global Institute for Water Security: World Water Day, Saskatoon, SK, March 20, 2015.

D’Silva, L.P., Liber, K., Baulch, H., and Doig, L.E. 2015. Seasonal phosphorus and arsenic release from sediments collected from Buffalo Pound Lake, Saskatchewan. Toxicology Group Annual General Meeting. May 15, 2015.

D’Silva, L.P., Liber, K., Baulch, H., and Doig, L.E. 2015. Arsenic mobilization from sediments collected from a prairie reservoir, Buffalo Pound Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemis-try - Prairie Northern Chapter annual meeting, Calgary, AB. June 4-5, 2015.

Egunyu, F. and Reed, M.G. 2014. Collaborative forest governance of a community forest in western Canada: what is the role of social learning? XXIV IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations) World Congress 2014. Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research, Salt Lake City, UT. October 5-11, 2014.

Egunyu, F. and Reed, M.G. 2015. The contributions of social learning to collaborative forest management: les-sons from Canada and Uganda. Canadian Association of Geographers 2015 Annual General Meeting, Vancouver, BC. June 1-5, 2015.

Egunyu, F. and Reed, M.G. 2015. Social learning for collaborative forest management in a community-based organization: lessons from Uganda. 5th Biennial Global Conference International Association for the Study of the Commons, Edmonton, AB. May 25-29, 2015.

Filardi, C., Clark, D., and Stirling, E. 2014. Crossing cultural boundaries. North American Congress for Conserva-tion Biology, Missoula, MT. July 16, 2014.

Fischer, T. and Noble, B.F. 2015. But is it any good? The search for quality in impact assessment. Impact Assess-

ment Research: Achievements, Gaps, Challenges. Annual meeting of the International Association for Impact Assessment, Florence, Italy. April, 2015.

Fresque-Baxter, J., Staples K., and Steelman, T. 2015. The Delta Dialogue Network: knowledge sharing and mo-bilization to address local and cross-scale experiences of environmental change in northern delta communities. Canadian Association of Geographers. Vancouver, BC. June, 2015.

Galuschik, N. and Baulch, H. 2015. Assessment of diel nutrient dynamics in small headwater reservoirs. World Water Day 2015. Saskatoon, SK.

Gillio-Meina, E. and Liber, K. 2015. How surface water chemistry conditions representative of the Alberta Oil Sands mining region can shape the acute aqueous toxicity of vanadium. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - Prairie Northern Chapter annual meeting, Calgary, AB. June 4-5, 2015.

Gillio-Meina, E. and Liber, K. 2014. Descriptive models for acute toxicity of vanadium to Daphnia pulex under different water chemistry conditions representative of surface waters in the Athabasca Oil Sand region. 41st an-nual Aquatic Toxicity Workshop, Ottawa, ON. September 28 - October 1, 2014.

Gillio-Meina, E. and K. Liber. 2014. Acute aqueous toxicity models for vanadium under different surface water chemistry conditions representative of the Alberta Oil Sands mining region. Society of Environmental Toxicol-ogy and Chemistry 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, November 7-13, 2014.

Godmaire, H. and Reed, M.G. 2014. Pratiques, collaboration et stratégies: réserves de la biosphere et de-veloppement durable. Les chartes du développement durable et l’éducation au développement durable en context de parc naturel en France et au Canada. Institut Hydro-Québec en environnement développement et société de L’université Laval. Québec, QC. August 21, 2014.

Green, D., Duffy, M., Janz, D., McCullum, K., Carriere, G., and Jardine, T. 2015. Contamination and multi-decadal decay of reservoir-liberated mercury in a downstream fishery: effects of size, age and trophic level. Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research, Ottawa, ON.

Haakensen, M., Pettit, V., Tissier, E.C., Headley, J., Peru, K., Bailey, J., Liber, K., Doig, L., and Markwart, B. 2015. Application of microbial profiling for optimized bioremediation and passive water treatment strategies. Alberta Society for Professional Biologists Remedial Technologies Workshop, Calgary, AB. January 29, 2015.

Hano, M.C., Nowell B., Knox-Velez, A.-L., Sudweeks, J., Albrecht, K., and Steelman T. 2015. Investigating network boundaries in complex problem domains: a tale of three networks. Public Management Research Association Conference. University of Minnesota. June, 2015.

Hanson, S., Steeves, K., Bagatim, T., Giesy, J.P., Hogan, N., Hontela, A., Jones, P., Peng, H., Wiseman, S., and Heck-er, M. Reproductive and general health assessment of fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) populations in-habiting an effluent-dominated stream, Wascana Creek, SK, Canada. SETAC Prairie Northern Chapter 6th Annual Meeting, Calgary, AB, June 4-5, 2015.

Hanson, S., Bagatim, T., Steeves, K., Hogan, N, Hontela, A., Jones, P., Giesy, J., and Hecker M. Assessing potential endocrine disrupting effects of municipal effluents on fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) populations in Southern Saskatchewan. 41st Aquatic Toxicity Workshop, Ottawa, ON. September 28 - October 1, 2014.

Hanson, S., Bagatim, T., Steeves, K., Hogan, N, Hontela, A., Jones, P., Giesy, J., and Hecker M. 2014. Assessing potential endocrine disrupting effects of municipal effluents on fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) popula-tions in Southern Saskatchewan. SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 9-13, 2014.

Hecker, M., Bagatim, T., Codling, G., Giesy, J.P., Hanson, S., Hogan, N., Hontela, A., Jones, P., Peng, H., Sarauer, B., Steeves, K., and Wiseman, S. 2015. Aquatic impact assessment of municipal effluents (AIME): a toolbox ap-proach. SETAC Europe 25th Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain. May 3-7, 2015.

Hecker, M., Codling, G., Yuan, H., Jones, P., and Giesy, J. 2015. Stormwater in Saskatoon - stormwater in cry-ospheric conditions. SETAC Europe 25th Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain. May 3-7, 2015.

Henderson, A., Lamb, E., Davis, S., and Reed, M.G. 2014. Modeling social and ecological drivers of abundance for three grasslands birds and risk. Pathways 2014: Integrating Human Dimensions into Fish and Wildlife Man-agement, Estes Park, CO. October 5-9, 2014.

Hodges, G., Falciani, F., Ankley, G., Butler, E., Hecker, M., Tollefsen, K.E., Garcia-Reyero, N., Kille, P., Becker, D., Brockmeier, E., Chipman, K., Colbourne, J., Collette, T., Cossins, A., Cronin, M., Graystock, P., Gutsell, S., Knapen, D., Katsiadaki, I., Lange, A., Marshall, S., Owen, S., Perkins, E.J., Plaistow, S., Schroeder, A., Taylor, D., Vian, M., and Hutchinson, T.H. Potential roles of omics data in the use of adverse outcome pathways for environmental risk assessment. SETAC Europe 25th Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain. May 3-7, 2015.

Janz, D.M., Liber, K., Pickering, I.J., Wiramanaden, C.I.E., Weech, S.A., Gallego-Gallegos, M., Driessnack, M.K., Franz, E.D., Goertzen, M.M., Phibbs, J., Tse, J.J., Himbeault, K.T., Robertson, E.L., Burnett-Seidel, C., England, K., and Gent, A. 2014. Integrative assessment of selenium speciation, biogeochemistry and distribution in a northern coldwater ecosystem. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 7-13, 2014.

Jardine, T.D., Rayner, T., Pettit, N., Douglas, M., Fry, B., Bunn, S., Woods, R., Marshall, J., Fawcett, J., Lobegeiger, J., Valdez, D., and Kainz, M. 2015. Variation in diet among individuals, and its consequences, in floodplain river food webs. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, Saskatoon, SK.

Jardine, T.D., Andrews, E., Abu, R., Asante, C. and Tendler, B. 2015. Canada’s river deltas in an era of rapid environmental change. U of S Graduate Students Association Conference, Saskatoon, SK.

Jardine, T.D., Rayner, T., Pettit, N.E., Valdez, D., Douglas, M.M., Fry, B., and Bunn, S.E. 2015. Riparian, marine and floodplain subsidies fuel waterhole food webs in dynamic tropical rivers. Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research, Ottawa, ON.

Kehoe, M. and Baulch, H. 2014. Seasonal and decadal dynamics in long term algal and limnological data set. Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network Meeting. Quebec, QC.

Kelly, E., Jardine, T., and Fresque-Baxter, J. 2015. Slave River and Delta Partnership Node: Slave Watershed Envi-ronmental Effects Program. Canadian Water Network Watersheds Consortia Workshop, Waterloo, ON.

Kidd, K.A., Paterson, M.J., Rennie, M.D., Podemski, C.L., Findlay, D.L., Blanchfield, P.J., and Liber, K. 2014. Evidence that a potent estrogen can cause long-term, direct and indirect effects on an aquatic food web. Society of Envi-ronmental Toxicology and Chemistry 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 7-13, 2014.

Kitamura, K. and Reed, M.G. 2015. Options and opportunities to collaborate for sustainability of the Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve. Canadian Association of Geographers 2015 Annual General Meeting, Vancouver, BC. June 1-5, 2015.

Knox-Velez, A.-L., Steelman, T., Goddette, S., and Nowell, B. 2015. Operationalizing performance measures in networked settings: lessons from large scale wildfires in the United States. Public Management Research As-sociation Conference, University of Minnesota. June, 2015.

Kricsfalusy, V. 2015. Plant species prioritization for conservation and monitoring: combining regional rarity and management needs. 10th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution (CSEE): Ecol-ogy and Evolution of Managed Landscapes, Saskatoon, SK. May 23, 2015.

Leung, W., Noble, B.F., Gunn, J., and Jaeger, J. 2015. Practitioner survey of uncertainty communication and disclosure in environmental assessment in Canada. Canadian Association of Geographers 2015 Annual General Meeting, Vancouver, BC. June 1-5, 2015.

Li, Y., Chen, L., Chen, F., Barr, A., Wan, B., and Barlage, M. 2015. Noah-MP land surface model simulation for boreal forest (BERMS SK-OAS) site, 2015 CGU Annual Meeting, Joint Assembly of AGU/CGU, Montréal, QC. May 6, 2015.

Li, Y., Elsaesser G., Carbone R.E., and Kummerow C. 2014. Characteristics of the precipitation event life cycle in the tropical Pacific. AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA. December 19, 2014.

Li, Y., Szeto, K., Stewart, R., Theriault, J., Zhang, X., Kochtubajda, B., Boodoo, S., Goodson, R., and Liu, A. 2014. WRF model simulation of June 2013 Alberta flooding event. 7th International Scientific Conference on the Global Water and Energy Cycle, The Hague, Netherlands. July 14, 2014.

Li, Y., Szeto, K., Stewart, R., Theriault, J., Zhang, X., Kochtubajda, B., Boodoo, S., Goodson, R., and Liu, A. 2015. The June 2013 Alberta catastrophic flooding: water vapor transport analysis by WRF simulation, 49th CMOS Congress and 13th AMS Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, Whistler, BC. June 2, 2015.

Liber, K. 2014. Assessment of metal-contaminated sediments: considerations related to bioavailability, sam-pling, and guidelines derivation. Saskatchewan Mining Association Environmental Forum, Saskatoon, SK. Octo-ber 28-29, 2014.

Liber, K. and Schiffer, S.R. 2015. Towards a vanadium water quality guideline for aquatic life relevant to the Canadian Oil Sands region. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - Europe 25th Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain. May 3-7, 2015.

Lindenschmidt, K.-E. and Das, A. 2015. Characterising river ice processes using geospatial modelling. Cana-dian Water Resources Association Annual Conference, Winnipeg, MB. June 2-4, 2015.

Lindenschmidt, K.-E., Kells, J., and Liu, N. 2015. Mapping breakup risk of river ice covers impacted by hydro-peaking operations. Canadian Water Resources Association Annual Conference, Winnipeg, MB. June 2-4, 2015.

Loring, P.A. 2015. When numbers are not enough: the political ecology of Alaska fisheries. Society for Applied Anthropology, Pittsburgh, PA.

Loring, P.A. 2015. Adaptation or acquiescence? Climate change, community work, and environmental security in Alaska. Society for Applied Anthropology, Pittsburgh, PA.

Loring, P.A. 2015. Conflict and coexistence in Alaska’s Cook Inlet salmon fisheries. Society for Applied Anthro-pology, Pittsburgh, PA.

Lucas, B.T., Liber K., and Doig L.E. 2014. A paleolimnological approach to establishing spatial and long-term environmental trends to correct for insufficient environmental monitoring data. Society of Environmental Toxi-cology and Chemistry 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 7-13, 2014.

Luke, L. and Noble, B.F. 2015. The impact of climate change considerations in environmental assessment: BC’s natural gas sector. Seventh International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, Vancouver, BC. April, 2015.

Maavara, T., Hood, J.L.A., North, R.L., Doig, L.E., Parsons, C.T., Johansson, J., Liber, K., Hudson, J., Lucas, B., Van-dergucht, D., and Van Cappellen, P. 2015. A long-term sink for nutrient silicon in Canada’s most threatened river system. American Geophysical Union - Canadian Geophysical Union Joint Assembly, Montreal, QC. May 3-7, 2015.

MacKinnon, B., Sagin, J., Baulch, H., Lindenschmidt, K., and Jardine, T. 2015. Influence of hydrological con-nectivity on winter limnology in floodplain lakes of the Saskatchewan River Delta, SK. Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research, Ottawa, ON.

Main, A.R., Michel, N.L., Headley, J.V., Peru, K.M., Cessna, A.J., and Morrissey, C.A. 2014. Drivers of neonicoti-noid fate and persistence in Prairie wetlands. SETAC, North America, Vancouver, BC. November 9-13, 2014.

Maloney, E., Morrissey, C., Headley, J., Peru, K. and Liber, K. 2015. Neonicotinoid insecticide mixtures: assess-ing the effects of exposure on a sensitive aquatic invertebrate species. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - Prairie Northern Chapter annual meeting, Calgary, AB. June 4-5, 2015.

McBeth, J., Haakensen, M., Doig, L., Liber, K., Sumaila, S., Rodgers Jr., J.H., Castle, J.W., and Sylvain, N. 2014. Role of gastropods in arsenic and selenium biogeochemical cycling in constructed wetland treatment systems. Geo-logical Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. October 19-22, 2014.

Meissner, A.G.N., Carr, M.K., Phillips, I.D. and Lindenschmidt, K.-E. 2015. Developing a geospatial model to

distinguish riverine macroinvertebrate habitat. Canadian Water Resources Association Annual Conference. Win-nipeg, MB, June 2-4 2015.

Michel, N.L., Clark, R.G., Hobson, K.A., and Morrissey, C.A. 2014. Population dynamics of aerial insectivorous birds: overview and climatic drivers. Joint meeting of American Ornithologists’ Union, Cooper Ornithological Society, and Society of Canadian Ornithologists, Estes Park, CO. September 24, 2014.

Michel, N.L., Clark, R.G., Hobson, K.A., and Morrissey, C.A. 2014. Aerial insectivorous bird declines: When? Where? Why? WildEcol seminar series, University of Saskatchewan and Environment Canada, Saskatoon, SK. October 22, 2014.

Michel, N.L., Clark, R.G., Hobson, K.A., and Morrissey, C.A. 2015. Where have all the grassland birds gone? Effects of land use, pesticides and climate on grassland birds in Canada’s Prairie Potholes Region. Canadian Sec-tion of The Wildlife Society Annual General Meeting, Saskatoon, SK. March 14, 2015.

Michelson, C.I., Clark, R.G., and Morrissey, C.A. 2014. Agricultural intensification does not disrupt the picky eating habits of tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor). Joint meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, Copper Ornithological Society, and Society of Canadian Ornithologists, Estes Park, CO. September 24, 2014.

Michelson, C.I., Morrissey, C.A., and Clark, R.G. 2015. Effects of agricultural intensification on reproductive performance and nestling quality of tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) breeding in central Saskatchewan. Cana-dian Section of The Wildlife Society, Saskatoon, SK. March 14, 2015.

Michelson, C.I., Morrissey, C.A., and Clark, R.G. 2015. Dietary responses of tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) to agricultural intensification and implications on body condition. Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution, Saskatoon, SK. May 23, 2015.

Michelson, C.I., Morrissey, C.A., Stanton, R.L., and Clark, R.G. 2014. Effects of agricultural intensification on tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) reproduction and nestling body condition. Joint meeting of the American Orni-thologists’ Union, Copper Ornithological Society, and Society of Canadian Ornithologists, Estes Park, CO. Sep-tember 26, 2014.

Mont’Alverne, R., Jardine, T., and Garcia, A. 2015. Insights on estuarine food web organization and lateral seg-regation along a salinity gradient. Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research, Ottawa, ON.

Morrissey, C.A., Michelson, C., Stanton, R., Main, A., Cavallaro, M., Michel, N., Headley, J., Peru, K., Liber, K., and B. Clark. 2014. Exploring the indirect links of insecticide use and effects to aerial insectivores: case study from the Canadian Prairies. 132nd Annual American Ornithologists’ Union meeting, Estes Park, CO.

Morrissey, C.A., Mineau, P., Devries, J.H., Sanchez-Bayo, F., Liess, M., Cavallaro, M., and Liber, K. 2014. An evaluation of worldwide contamination of surface waters and relative risks to aquatic invertebrates from neoni-cotinoid insecticides. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 7-13, 2014.

Norbury, V.M., Bishop, C.A., Jardine, T.D., Elliott, J., and Morrissey, C.A. 2015. Impacts of run-of-river dams on American dippers and the river food webs of coastal British Columbia. Canadian Section of the Wildlife Society Annual Conference, Saskatoon, SK. March 14-15, 2015.

Norbury, V.M., Bishop, C.A., Jardine, T.D., Elliott, J., and Morrissey, C.A. 2015. Impacts of run-of-river dams on American dippers and the river food webs of coastal British Columbia. Columbia Mountains Institute of Applied Science, Regulated Rivers Conference, Castlegar, BC. May 6-7, 2015.

North, R., Baulch, H. and Lindenschmidt, K.-E. 2014. Winter limnology studies of prairie reservoirs. Lake as-sessments sessions presented at: NALMS 34th International Symposium, Tampa, FL. November 11-14, 2014.

Nowell, B. and Steelman, T. 2015. The role of network leadership in brokering between local communities and external disaster response efforts. American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences Conference. Las Vegas, NV. February, 2015.

Nowell, B. and Steelman, T. 2015. Network management and performance on complex fire events. 13th Inter-national Wildland Fire Safety Summit and 4th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference. Boise, ID. April,

2015.

Nuesser L., Brack W., Patterson S., Wiseman S., Seiler T.B., Hecker, M., and Hollert, H. 2014. Assessment of the toxicogenomic potential of complex industrial wastewater effluents in zebrafish using RNA sequence-bysynthe-sis technology and qPCR. SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 9-13, 2014.

Parkins, J.R., Dunn, M., Reed, M.G., and Sinclair, A.J. 2015. Forest governance as neoliberal strategy: a compara-tive case study of the Model Forest program in Canada. 5th Biennial Global Conference International Associa-tion for the Study of the Commons, Edmonton, AB. May 25-29 2015.

Patterson S., Zee J., Wiseman S., and Hecker, M. 2014. Effects of chronic dietary selenomethionine exposure on the physiological stress response in juvenile white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus). SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 9-13, 2014.

Pernica, P., North, R., and Baulch, H. 2014. A method to estimate mixing depth under ice in mid-latitude lakes. Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network Meeting, Quebec, QC.

Pettet, V., Haakensen, M., Tissier, E.C., Liber, K., Doig, L., and Markwart B. 2015. Preliminary findings on periphy-ton composition and selenium trophic transfer. North American Metals Council, Selenium Working Group Meet-ing, Saskatoon, SK. June 10, 2015.

Qin G., Tang S., Beitel S., Doering J., Liu H., Wang M., and Du H. 2014. Impact of predator cues on responses to silver nanoparticles in Daphnia carinata. SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 9-13, 2014.

Razavi, S., Elshorbagy, A., Wheater, H., and Sauchyn, D. 2015. Evaluation of paleo-hydrologic extremes and their uncertainties. American Geophysical Union-Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU-CGU) Joint Assembly. Montreal, QC, May 3-7, 2015.

Razavi, S., and Gupta, H.V. 2014. What do we mean by sensitivity analysis? The need for a comprehensive char-acterization of sensitivity in earth system models, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting, San Francisco, CA. December 15-19, 2014.

Razavi, S., and Gupta, H.V. 2015. A critical look at sensitivity analysis of hydrologic systems models. American Geophysical Union-Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU-CGU) Joint Assembly. Montreal, QC, May 3-7, 2015.

Razavi, S., and Gupta H.V. 2015. A new framework for effective and efficient global sensitivity analysis of earth and environmental systems models. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. April 12-17, 2015.

Reed, M.G. 2015. Raising orphans: the experience of UNESCO biosphere reserves in Canada. 5th Biennial Global Conference International Association for the Study of the Commons, Edmonton, AB. May 25-29, 2015.

Reed, M.G. 2015. Science and sensibility: the origins of the UNESCO Man and Biosphere Program and World Biosphere Reserves. Canadian Association of Geographers 2015 Annual General Meeting, Vancouver, BC. June 1-5, 2015.

Reed, M.G., Johnston, M., and Natcher, D. 2014. Response to climate change in forest-based communities: does gender matter? XXIV IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations) World Congress 2014: Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research. Salt Lake City, UT. October 5-11, 2014.

Ridsdale, R. and Noble, B.F. 2014. How sustainable is sustainable remediation in the context of brownfield redevelopment? CABERNET 2014: Tailored and Sustainable Redevelopment towards Zero Brownfields. 4th International Conference on Managing Urban Land, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Roth, R. and Clark, D. 2014. Indigenous-led conservation in North America: best practices in collaboration. North American Congress for Conservation Biology, Missoula, MT. July 13, 2014.

Ryan, A., Santore, R., Vardy, D., and Hecker, M. 2014. Evaluating the likelihood that early life stages of white sturgeon were affected by metals in sediment exposures. SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancou-ver, BC. November 9-13, 2014.

Sadeghian, A., Hudson, J., Wheater, H., and Lindenschmidt, K.-E. 2014. Lake Diefenbaker hydrodynamic model. NALMS 34th International Symposium, Tampa, FL. November 11-14, 2014.

Sagin, J. and Lindenschmidt, K.-E. 2015. Digital terrain model (DTM) of the Slave River and Delta, NWT, Canada. CGU-AGU Joint Assembly, Montreal, QC. May 3-7, 2015.

Schiffer, S.R., Doig, L.E., and Liber, K. 2014. Toxicity of vanadium to aquatic organisms representative of the Athabasca Oil Sands region. 41st annual Aquatic Toxicity Workshop, Ottawa, ON., September 28 -October 1, 2014.

Schiffer, S.R., Doig, L.E., and Liber, K. 2014. Use of species sensitivity distributions to assess the toxicity of vana-dium to aquatic organisms representative of the Athabasca Oil Sands region. Society of Environmental Toxicol-ogy and Chemistry 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 7-13, 2014.

Schiffer, S.R., Doig, L.E., and Liber, K. 2015. Using acute and chronic species sensitivity distributions to evaluate the toxicity of vanadium to aquatic organisms representative of the Athabasca Oil Sands region. Global Institute for Water Security: World Water Day. March 20, 2015.

Schiffer, S.R., Doig, L.E., and Liber, K. 2015. Standard vs. regionally-relevant test species: determining the toxic-ity of vanadium to aquatic organisms representative of the Athabasca Oil Sands region. Society of Environmen-tal Toxicology and Chemistry - Prairie Northern Chapter annual meeting, Calgary, AB. June 4-5, 2015.

Schmidt, A. and Clark, D. 2015. Re-telling the polar bear story. The Wildlife Society, Canadian Chapter Meet-ing, Saskatoon, SK. March 14, 2015.

Schmidt, A., Clark, D., Lokken, N., and Brook, R. 2014. Understanding the human dimensions of polar bear-human conflicts in Western Hudson Bay. North American Congress for Conservation Biology, Missoula, MT. July 13, 2014.

Sinclair, A.J., Reed, M.G., Egunyu, F., and Assuah, A. 2015. Learning outcomes through participating in com-munity forestry in British Columbia. Canadian Association of Geographers 2015 Annual General Meeting. Van-couver, BC, June 1-5, 2015.

Stanton, R, Clark, R.G., and Morrissey, C.A. 2014. Indirect effects of agricultural intensification and pesticides on tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) foraging, body condition and stress physiology. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 9-13, 2014.

Stanton, R, Clark, R.G., and Morrissey, C.A. 2014. Indirect effects of agricultural intensification on tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) foraging and dispersal behaviours. AOU/COS/SCO Joint Meeting, Estes Park, CO. Septem-ber 25, 2014.

Stanton, R, Clark, R.G., and Morrissey, C.A. 2014. Indirect effects of agricultural intensification on components of tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) stress physiology. AOU/COS/SCO Joint Meeting, Estes Park, CO. September 27, 2014.

Stanton, R, Clark, R.G., Morrissey, C.A. 2015. Agricultural landscapes influence tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) foraging strategy, adult body condition, and return rates. Canadian Section of the Wildlife Society (TWS), Saska-toon, SK. March 14, 2015.

Stanton, R, Clark, R.G., and Morrissey, C.A. 2015. Agricultural landscapes influence tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) foraging strategy and return rates, but not adult body condition. Canadian Society of Ecology and Evo-lution (CSEE), Saskatoon, SK. May 22, 2015.

Steelman, T.A., Nowell, B., FitzGerald, C., and Hano, M.C. 2015. Social ‘watch out’ situations for incident man-agement teams. 13th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit and 4th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference, Boise, ID. April, 2015.

Steelman, T.A., McHale, M., Bradford, L., James, A., and Nicols, E. 2014. A framework for systematic learning for sustainability science. Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Portland, OR. October, 2014.

Steelman, T. 2014. Best practices in public communications on a wildfire. Wildland Fire Conference, Halifax, NS/ October, 2014.

Steelman, T. 2014. The wildfire governance regime as a complex socio-ecological system. Annual Meeting of the Society of Policy Scientists, Providence, RI. September 25-27, 2014.

Steeves, K., Hanson, S., Bagatim, T., Wiseman, S., Jones, P., Giesy, J., Hontela, A., Hecker, M., and Hogan, N. 2014. Assessing biological effects of municipal wastewater effluent using the fathead minnow reproductive bioassay. 41st Aquatic Toxicity Workshop, Ottawa, ON. September 28 - October 1, 2014.

Steeves, K., Hanson, S., Bagatim, T., Wiseman, S., Jones, P., Giesy, J., Hontela, A., Hecker, M., and Hogan, N. 2014. Assessing biological effects of municipal wastewater effluent using the fathead minnow reproductive bioassay. SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 9-13, 2014.

Teel, T. and Clark, D. 2014. Informing integrated approaches to addressing human-wildlife conflict through social science. North American Congress for Conservation Biology, Missoula, MT. July 14, 2014.

Terry, J.A., Baulch, H.M., Bauer, J., Sagin, J., and Lindenschmidt, K.-E. 2014. Whole lake modelling to under-stand complex processes. Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network Meeting, Quebec, QC.

Tse, T.J., Doig, L.E., Quiñones-Rivera, Z.J., Leavitt, P.R., Codling, G., Lucas, B.T., Liber, K., Giesy, J.P., Wheater, H., and Jones, P.D. 2014. A paleolimnological investigation of phytoplankton trends in a narrow river-valley reser-voir. 41st annual Aquatic Toxicity Workshop, Ottawa, ON. September 28 - October 1, 2014.

Tse, T., Wiseman, S., Giesy, J., Wheater, H., Jones, P., and Hecker, M. 2014. Reconstructing long-term limno-logical trends in phytoplankton and toxin production using paleogenomics and next generation sequencing. SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 9-13, 2014.

Udofia, A., Noble, B.F., and Poelzer, G. 2015. Aboriginal peoples’ participation in environmental assessment: stakeholder perceptions of the state of practice for uranium exploration in northern Saskatchewan. AGM of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Vancouver, BC.

Vermette, M. and Hesseln, H. 2015. Assessing the economic benefits of co-operation among small forest operators: a Saskatchewan case study. Western Forest Economists and International Society of Forest Resource Economics 2015 Meeting, Vancouver, BC. May 31 - June 2, 2015.

Villeneuve, D., Crump, D., Garcia-Reyero, N., Hecker, M., Hutchinson, T., Lalone, C., Landesmann, B., Lettieri, T., Munn, S., Nepelska, M., Ottinger, M., Vergauvwen, L., Whelan, M. 2014. Adverse outcome pathway (AOP) de-velopment: guiding principles and best practices. SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 9-13, 2014.

Walters, D.M., Kidd, K.A., Cade, B., Leipzig-Scott, P., Muir, D.C.G., and Jardine T.D. 2014. Chemical and biological factors drive trophic magnification of organic pollutants in aquatic food webs. Society of Environmental Toxicol-ogy and Chemistry North America 35th Annual Meeting. Vancouver, BC.

White, K. and K. Liber. 2015. Identification and evaluation of chemicals of potential concern to aquatic life in oil sands process-affected water from Base Mine Lake, Alberta. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - Prairie Northern Chapter annual meeting, Calgary, AB. June 4-5, 2015.

Wiseman, S., Jones, P., Hecker, M., and Giesy, J. 2015. Altered reproductive capacity of Japanese medaka ex-posed to maternally transferred TBCO. SETAC Europe 25th Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain. May 3-7, 2015.

Yassin, F.A., Wheater, H.S., Razavi, S., Azuri, G.S., Davison, B., and Pietroniro, A. 2015. Comprehensive, pro-cess-based identification of hydrologic models using satellite and in-situ water storage data: a multi-objective calibration approach. European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. April 12-17, 2015.

Yuan, H., Codling, G., Wheater, H., Jones, P., Giesy, J., and Hecker, M. 2014. Chemical profile of Swift Current wastewater treatment plant discharge and its potential effects. SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 9-13, 2014.

Zee, J., Patterson, S., Wiseman, S., Gagnon, D., and Hecker, M. 2014. Is oxidative stress the main driver of sele-

nium toxicity in juvenile white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus). SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 9-13, 2014.

Zheng, X., Tang, S., Liu, H., Hecker, M., and Wiseman, S. 2014. Effects of 6-OH-BDE-47, 6-MeO-BDE-47 and BDE-47 on receptor-associated mRNA expression in zebrafish embryos/larvae. SETAC North America 35th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC. November 9-13, 2014.

Research Grants and ContractsBaulch, H.M., Giesy, J., Leavitt, P., Jones, P., Liber, K., and Lindenschmidt, K.E. 2013-2016. Understanding lake metabolism and algal blooms: new tools for the management of potable water sources. NSERC Strategic Project Grant.

Baulch, H.M. 2015. Harmful algal blooms: links between lake ecology, chemistry, and drinking water treat-ment. MITACS GlobalLinks Research Intern.

Baulch, H.M. 2015. Oxygen and hypoxia risk in prairie systems. Environment Canada Science Horizons.

Bullock, R., Coates, K., Steelman, T., and Broad, G. 2014-2016. Northern governance innovation and develop-ment for socially resilient boreal communities. SSHRC Insight Development Grant.

Clark, D. et al. 2015. Chu äyì ätl’et (the water in me): collaboratively developing a water strategy for the Cham-pagne and Aishihik First Nations’ Traditional Territory, Yukon. GIWS Seed Funding Competition.

Drew, M., Zatti, K., Zello, G., Hecker, M., Bell, S., Jardine, T., and Sereda, J. 2014-2015. A community-based ap-proach to sustainable pond aquaculture in southern Ethiopia – a feasibility study assessing water and food security. One Health Research Development Grant.

Engler-Stringer, R., Loring, P.A., Abyoni S., and Settee, P. 2015-2016. Changing inner city food environments: interventions to address nutritional health inequities. Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Ferguson, G, Ireson, A.M., and Lindsay, M. 2014-2015. Probabilistic risk assessment of groundwater flow and contaminant transport. Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation.

Hausner, V. and Clark, D. 2015. CONNECT: Global connections and changing resource use systems in the Arctic. NSERC Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Action on Arctic Observing and Research for Sustainability.

Hecker. M. 2012-2017. Functional transcriptomics of native Canadian fish species. NSERC Discovery Grant.

Hecker. M. 2013-current: Safe water for health research team (SWHRT). Saskatchewan Health Research Founda-tion (SHRF): Phase Two Health Research Group Grant.

Hecker. M. 2013-current: Aquatic impact assessment of municipal effluents (AIME). Canadian Water Network.

Hecker. M. 2014-current. Analytical toxicology base in support of economic development. Western Economic Diversification Canada.

Hecker, M. 2014-current. Assessing the adverse effects of emerging chemical contaminants on fishes of com-mercial, aboriginal and recreational value to Canadians (AECCO). Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

Ireson, A.M. 2012-2017. Groundwater surface water interactions in the prairies. NSERC Discovery Grant.

Ireson, A.M. 2014-2015. An evaluation of the controls on salt release from oil sands reclamation covers. Syncrude Canada Ltd.

Ireson, A.M. 2015-2016. An evaluation of the controls on salt release from oil sands reclamation covers. NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant.

Jardine, T.D., Baulch, H.M., Hobson, K.A., and Janz, D.M. 2013-2016. Identifying flood- and food-related limits to fish and wildlife production in the Saskatchewan River delta. NSERC Collaborative Research and Develop-ment.

Jardine, T.D. 2013-2018. Ecological benefits and toxicological consequences of flooding in river ecosystems.

NSERC Discovery Grant.

Jardine T., Kricsfalusy V., and Morrissey C. 2014. Implementation of ENVS 806. Curriculum Innovation Fund, University of Saskatchewan. Johnson, T., Stallman, J., Steel, B., Weber, B., Gedikogulu, H., Baharanyi, N., Thiam T., Loring, P.A., and Duffy, L.K. 2013-2016. Climate change adaptation, sustainable energy development, and comparative agricultural and rural policy. US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Jones, P.D., Jardine, T.D., Bharadwaj, L., Doig, L., and Lindenschmidt, K.-E. 2013-2015. SWEEP – The Slave Wa-tershed Environmental Effects Program. Canadian Water Network – Canadian Watersheds Research Consortium.

Kricsfalusy V. 2015-2016. The student-centered sustainable farm initiative (SCSFI). The Prairie Centre for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage (PCUH) at St. Thomas More College. University of Saskatchewan.

Kricsfalusy V. 2014-2015. Linking urban agriculture and cultural heritage. The Prairie Centre for the Study of Ukrainian Heritage (PCUH) at St. Thomas More College. University of Saskatchewan.

Laroque, C. 2015. Forge Ahead grant - ROI 14-019 re Pro6 Band Dendrometer prototype development.

Li, Y. 2013-2014. Weather research and forecasting. Environment Canada.

Li, Y. 2014. Canada-Latin America and the Caribbean research exchange grants program.

Li, Y. 2015. Regional hydroclimate project of global energy and water cxchanges. Changing Cold Regions Net-work. NSERC Climate Change and Atmospheric Research Initiative.

Liber, K. 2012-2015. Vanadium toxicity to aquatic organisms representative of the Athabasca oil sands region. Syncrude Canada Ltd.

Liber, K., Giesy, J.P., Jones, P.D., and Hecker M. 2014-current. Analytical toxicology base in support of econom-ic development. Western Economic Diversification Canada.

Lindenschmidt, K.-E. C-Core. WEMEO - Water ecosystems monitoring using earth observation. Canadian Space Agency.

Lindenschmidt, K.-E. 2013-2015. Geospatial models and isotope tracers to identify key fish and animal habi-tats along the Slave River. Northwest Territories Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program.

Lindenschmidt, K.-E. 2013-2015. Developing a geospatial model of Qu’Appelle River system to distinguish fish and macroinvertebrate habitat. Saskatchewan Fish and Wildlife Development Fund.

Lindenschmidt, K.-E. 2014-2016. Management of economic risk of on-farm surface water retention systems. Manitoba Conservation Districts Association.

Lindenschmidt, K.-E. 2015. Incorporating dynamic ice jam modelling into flood risk assessment and mapping. Industrial partner: Stantec, Alberta. NSERC Engage Grant.

Lindenschmidt, K.-E., Jones, P., Bharadwaj, L., Jardine, T., and Doig, L. 2014-2016. Geospatial models and iso-tope tracers to identify key fish and animal habitats along the Slave River. NWT Cumulative Impact Monitoring Program.

Loring, P.A. 2014-2016. Human dimensions of sustainability in Haida Gwaii. Parks Canada.

Loring, P.A. 2015-2016. Linking ocean health and human health in Haida Gwaii. Marine Environmental Obser-vation Prediction and Response Network - Network Centres of Excellence.

Loring, P.A., Schnabel, W.l., Gerlach, C., Mahoney, A., Walsh, J., Huntington, H., Gearheard, S. and Hamilton, L. 2013-2016. Sustainable futures north: food, water and energy security in a changing Arctic. US National Sci-ence Foundation.

McDonnell, J.J. 2010-2015. Water sustainability in the Willamette Basin, Oregon. US National Science Founda-tion, Hydrological Science.

McDonnell, J.J., and Ireson, A. 2015-2018. The Mine Overlay Soil Test (MOST) Facility. Western Economic Diver-sification.

McDonnell, J.J. 2014-2019. How do watersheds store and release water? NSERC Discovery Grant.McDonnell, J.J. 2014-2017. NSERC Accelerator Award.

McDonnell, J.J. 2014-2015. Hydrological impacts of biofuel production. US Department of Energy.

McDonnell, J.J. 2014-2018. Eucalyptus plantation impacts on catchment water balance. US Department of Energy.

McDonnell, J.J., Ireson, A., and Barbour, L. 2014. Salt release from oil sands. Syncrude.

McDonnell, J.J. 2010-2015. Water sustainability in the Willamette Basin, OR. NSF Hydrological Science.

McKenzie, M., et al, (including Reed, M.G.) 2012-2019. The sustainability and education policy network: leading through multi-sector learning. SSHRC Partnership Grant.

Morrissey, C. 2011-2016. Effect of endocrine disrupting chemicals on avian life cycles. NSERC Discovery Grant.

Morrissey, C. 2015-2017. Threats to shorebird migration. Environment Canada.

Morrissey, C. 2014-2015. Science Horizons internship. Environment Canada.

Morrissey, C. 2015. Impacts of run-of-river hydropower on American dippers and the river food webs of south-ern British Columbia. Environment Canada.

Morrissey, C. and Liber, K. 2012-2015. Distribution and Impact of neonicotinoid Insecticides on prairie wet-lands and waterbirds. NSERC Strategic Project Grant.

Morrissey, C. and Liber, K. 2014-2017. Neonicotinoid insecticide toxicity to aquatic organisms: addressing key knowledge gaps on toxicity thresholds, mixtures and mitigation strategies using buffer zones. National Con-taminants Advisory Group, Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

Noble, B.F., Jaeger J., and Gunn, J. 2012-2016. Uncertainty analysis and communication in Canadian environ-mental impact assessment practice and decision making. SSHRC Insight Grant.

Noble, B.F. and Westbrook C. 2014-2016. Flood risk in rural communities experiencing rapid environmental change: toward a framework for stakeholder-based evaluation of alternative flood policy and mitigation strate-gies. SSHRC Insight Development Grant.

Pennock, D.J., Walley, F.L., Farrell, R.E., Knight, D., and Schoenau, J. 2012-2015. Effects of improved nitrogen and stand management on net greenhouse gas balances in forage production systems. Agricultural Green-house Gases Program.

Reed, M.G. 2014. Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Vilhelmina Model Forest. Bröderna Edlunds donations-fond. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Reed, M.G. and Guertin, M.A. 2011-2015. Creating networking and social learning strategies in Canadian bio-sphere reserves. SSHRC Partnership Development Grant.

Reed, M.G., Johnston, M.J., and Natcher, D. 2013-2015. Linking gender, climate change, adaptive capacity and forest-based communities in Canada. SSHRC Insight Development Grant.

Reed, M.G., Parkins, J., and Sinclair, J. 2012-2016. The role of communities in collaborative forest governance in Canada: contributing to theory and practice through comparative study. SSHRC Insight Grant.

Reimer, W., Loring, P.A., et al., (one of 37 total co-applicants). 2014-2021. Rural policy learning commons: build-ing rural policy through international comparative analysis. SSHRC Partnership Grant.

Steelman, T.A., Barrett, M.J., Reed, M.G. 2012-2014. Growing SENS as a learning organization. Curriculum In-novation Fund, University of Saskatchewan.

Steelman, T., Fresque-Baxter, J., McLachlan, S., Bharadwaj, L., Bradford, L., Jardine, T., Jones, P., Linden-schmidt, K., Poelzer, G., Reed, M.G., and Strickert, G. 2013-2016. Delta Dialogue Network. SSHRC Partnership Development Grant.

Steelman, T. and Nowell, B. 2012-2016. Relational risk assessment and management: investigating local ca-pacity in wildfire fesponse networks. Joint Fire Science Award, US Department of the Interior.

Steelman, T. and Nowell, B. 2012-2016. A pre/post disaster investigation of the effect of network capacities on disaster response. National Science Foundation Award.

Stutchbury, B. and Morrissey, C. 2015. Pesticide impacts on bird migration. Molson Foundation.

Vandenberg, A., Warketin, T., Walley F., and Bett, K. 2012-2015. Improving bioavailability of iron in lentils and peas. Agriculture Development Fund, Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture.

Walley, F. and Germida, J.J. 2015-2017. Evaluation of beneficial rhizosphere and endorhizosphere microorgan-isms as bioinoculants for the control of root-borne pathogens. Saskatchewan Pulse Growers.

Walley, F. 2014-2016. Impact of chickpea/flax intercropping on nitrogen fixation in chickpea and nitrogen transfer to flax. Saskatchewan Pulse Growers.

Walley, F.L. 2011-2016. Chemical characterization and function of soil organic nitrogen in prairie agroecosys-tems, NSERC Discovery Grant.

Westbrook, C.J., Baulch, H.M., Carey, S.K., Hayashi, M., McDonnell, J.J., Noble, B.F., Petrone, R.M., Pomeroy, J.W., Wheater, H.S., Gober, P.A., and Stewart, R.E. 2014-2019. NSERC CREATE for Water Security.

Wheater, H.S. 2013-2015. Water Knowledge Application Network (WatKAN). Canadian Water Network.

Wheater, H.S., Ireson, A.M. et al. 2013-2018. Changing Cold Regions Network. NSERC - Climate Change and Atmospheric Research Initiative.

The Slave River figures prominently in many research projects at SENS.

Public and Community OutreachPublic and community outreach is an integral part of SENS’ mandate. Major initiatives in 2014-2015were:• SENS Student Symposium: The School held its second student symposium to highlight student research

on March 27, 2015. The day-long event featured Dr. Nancy Doubleday, Hope Chair in Peace and Health and Professor, Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, as keynote speaker. Forty-six students in SENS’ three graduate programs participated in the symposium.

• Service Learning in ENVS 992: In 2012, a service learning component was added to the MSEM research project, ENVS 992. Through partnerships with non-profit and charitable organizations, as well as govern-ment and private companies, students engage in hands-on learning, which permits them to develop critical thinking and interdisciplinary research skills. In 2014-2015, ENVS 992 service learning partners were:

• City of Saskatoon• Meewasin Valley Authority• Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve• Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment• Saskatchewan Research Council• Saskatchewan Water Security Agency• Saskatoon Food Bank and Learning Centre• SaskPower• The Parks Canada Agency, Wapusk National Park

• Professional Skills Certificate of Attendance: The third year of the SENS Professional Skills Certificate of Attendance included workshops about project planning and management, written and oral communi-cation, visual communication, environmental impact assessment, environmental technical applications, financial and budget management, and, career development. The workshops were again facilitated by professionals working in the field, including SENS faculty and staff. Twenty students and one staff member from eight academic units participated in the workshops.

• Delta Day: SENS hosted Delta Day on February 6, 2015. Members of the Northern Village of Cumberland House visited the School, and met with students and faculty to share perspectives and make connections. Through the use of photographs of the Saskatchewan River Delta, the community members were able to convey how changes in the delta have changed their way of life.

• Talking SENSe, The Alumni SENSor, and SENS This Week: SENS continued to provide updates to its com-munity members and the wider public through the story-based newsletter Talking SENSe, published three times a year. The Alumni SENSor is sent to SENS alumni exclusively. A new e-newsletter, SENS This Week, provides updates about news and events of interest going on in the School and the wider community.

GovernanceThe School of Environment and Sustainability follows a collegial model of decision-making, where committees are responsible for overseeing the development of policies and procedures. Final approval is sought from the SENS Faculty Council, which is comprised of all faculty holding standard, primary-joint, or secondary-joint ap-pointments in the School. Membership of the School’s committees for 2014-2015 was as follows:

Academic ProgramsCharles Maulé (chair)Helen BaulchColin LaroqueBram NobleHardi Shahadu

Admissions and AwardsMarkus Hecker (chair)Ken BelcherChristy MorrisseyAndrew IresonYanping LiPhil LoringVladimir Kricsfalusy

EngagementKarl-Erich Lindenschmidt (chair)Paul Jones Doug ClarkTim JardineHayley HesselnFran WalleyKathleen AikensNaomi Maina

Financial StatementsSchool of Environment and Sustainability

Consolidated Statement of OperationsFor the Year Ended April 30, 2015

Fund balances, beginning of year $ 775,390Revenue (1) Student Fees and other misc. revenue 14,551 Operating Allocation plus Centennial Chair 1,720,202 Donations 94,692 Internal Transfers Graduate Tuition and Scholarship Allocation 383,119 Capital Equipment Allocation 6,640Total Funds Available $ 2,219,204

Expenses Salaries 1,125,552 Employee Benefits 154,030 Operational Supplies and Expenses 36,375 Travel 6,948 Maintenance, Rental, and Renovations 611 Scholarships, Bursaries, and Prizes 244,084 Capital Assets 6,105 Transfers to other funds (2) 33,851Total Expenses $ 1,607,555

Revenue over expenses $ 611,649

Fund balances, end of year $ 1,387,039

Restricted funds (3) $ 1,214,547Unrestricted funds $ 172,492

$ 1,387,039

(1) Only core and strategic operating and scholarship funding is summarized; other non-core operating, re-search, overhead, and Federal Indirect Cost Program funding for the School of Environment and Sustainability are not included.(2) Relates to various transfers, including Senior Administrators’ Expenses (DSEA), new faculty start-up, $10-K support for CFI project(3) Restricted funds comprised of: (i) strategic initiatives ($758,494), which includes funding for several fac-ulty positions; and, funds to support the Master of Water Security program, online/distance/hybrid education options and fostering interdisciplinary culture in SENS; (ii) tuition revenue sharing and scholarship funds of $446,712 and, (iii) capital asset funds of $9,341.

School of Environment and Sustainability

University of Saskatchewan

Room 323, Kirk Hall

117 Science Place

Saskatoon, SK

Canada S7N 5C8

www.usask.ca/sens

Telephone: (306) 966-1985

Facsimile: (306) 966-2298

E-mail: [email protected]

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