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Research Team
Dr. Julian Aherne
Dr. Julian Aherne is a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Environmental Modeling and associate professor with the Environmental and Resource Science Program at Trent University. He specializes in biogeochemical modeling and air pollution.
Dr. John Bailey
Dr. John Bailey is a Ministry of Environment Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor with the Cooperative Freshwater Ecology Unit at Laurentian University's Vale Living with Lakes Centre. His research focuses on detection of and recovery from the effects of multiple stressors on aquatic ecosystems.
Dr. Peter Dillon
Dr. Peter Dillon is a professor with the Departments of Chemistry and Environmental and Resource Science at Trent University. He specializes in biogeochemical modeling on lakes and catchments.
Dr. Catherine Eimers
Dr. Catherine Eimers is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at Trent University. Her research focuses on the relationships between changes in climate, hydrology and water quality.
Dr. Joerg Grigull
Dr. Joerg Grigull is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at York University, who works closely with colleagues in the Department of Biology. His work specializes in the adaptation of GIS modelling to the interpretation of landscape-scale interactions of aquatic chemistry and biology with underlying geology, forestry practices and land-use.
Dr. John Gunn
Dr. John Gunn is a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Stressed Aquatic Systems and professor in the Biology Department at Laurentian University. His research interests include fisheries ecology and management, climate change and restoration ecology.
Dr. Roland Hall
Dr. Roland Hall is a professor in the Biology Department at the University of Waterloo. His research combines the fields of aquatic ecology, paleolimnology and multivariate statistics to assess effects of multiple stressors (nutrients, acidification, climate change, river regulation, species invasions) on lakes, wetlands and reservoirs.
Dr. April James
Dr. April James is a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Watershed Analysis and Modeling and assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Nipissing University. Her research aims to improve understanding and the prediction of how nutrients and contaminants are transported through the landscape, and how watersheds respond to environmental change.
Chris Jones
Chris Jones is a scientist with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, and is a Laurentian University Ph.D. student. His research is on biological monitoring, in which bottom-dwelling aquatic invertebrates are used as indicators of ecosystem condition.
Dr. Andrew Paterson
Dr. Andrew Paterson is a research scientist at the Ontario Ministry of the Environment's Dorset Environmental Science Centre. His work focuses on understanding how multiple stressors affect the water quality and ecology of inland lakes.
Dr. Murray Richardson
Dr. Murray Richardson is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University. He conducts interdisciplinary research in the fields of geomatics, hydrology and biogeochemistry.
Dr. Shaun Watmough
Dr. Shaun Watmough is an associate professor in the Environmental and Resource Science Program at Trent University. His research focuses on the biogeochemical cycling in forested catchments with particular emphasis on soil acidification, nitrogen saturation, trace metals and climate change.
Dr. Jennifer Winter
Dr. Jennifer Winter is a research scientist with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment where she directs monitoring and research programs that focus on nutrients, algal communities and associated issues in lakes.
Dr. Norman Yan
Dr. Norman Yan is a professor in the Department of Biology at York University. His long-term professional goal is to understand the impact of multiple environmental stressors on the animal plankton, which he calls the "little living lawnmowers" of lakes.
Dr. Huaxia Yao
Dr. Huaxia Yao is a research scientist at the Dorset Environmental Centre of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. His research focuses on hydrological methods and their applications to water resource, climate change impacts and environmental management.
Topics
Canadian Water Network
A collaborative monitoring program in the Muskoka River Watershed funded in part by the Canadian Water Network.
CWN Research Team
Learn about the scientists carrying out the research.
Annual Update Workshops
An annual update on the progress of each research project.
- A geographic template for cumulative-effects assessment in the Muskoka River Watershed
- Assessing and modelling cumulative effects on biological communities
- Establishment of biological baselines in the Muskoka River Watershed and development of a diatom index for assessing lake and riverine health
- Establishment of physical baselines and hydroclimatic assessment
- Drivers of declining P and rising DOC; role of wetlands/beaver ponds
- Interacting effects of multiple stressors on ecotoxicological thresholds (Ca and Cl ecotoxicology)
- Establishing sustainable harvesting intensities in the Muskoka River Watershed to sustain critical Ca levels
- Long-term changes in lake nutrient stoichiometry: effects on plankton productivity and species composition
- Evaluation and application of INCA-P and HBV to surface waters in the Muskoka River Watershed
- Evaluation and application of SWAT model to surface waters in the Muskoka River Watershed
- Controls on algal blooms and predictive modeling of bloom occurrence in the Muskoka River Watershed