I work on environmental issues impacting the Ottawa River and coordinate the Ottawa Riverkeeper's Riverwatch Program, a network of individuals and groups living, working and playing on the river, who share a common desire to protect the river's health through monitoring, reporting, and community stewardship activities. As part of this program, I am developing the Riverkeeper's first volunteer water quality monitoring program.

GEOG3104 Principles of Biogeography, GEOG1010 Global Environmental Systems

Studying fine root dynamics in response to long-term fertilization in a peatland using minirhizotron technology, includes organizing an international workshop on minirhizotron use in peatlands in preparation for a review manuscript to be submitted to a peer review journal

Taught GEOG 203 Environmental Systems, GEOG205 Climate Change: Past, present and future, GEOG470 Wetlands.

Compiled a review on vascular root responses to long-term warming experiments. Article in preparation for submission to peer-reviewed journal.

Mentored student with a range of learning disability to develop better time management skills for success in academia. Proof reader for students, helping them to communicate clearly in a written format.

Measured gas exchange and plant responses to long-term fertilization in a peatland

Assisted in the coordination of water quality volunteers, updated organization's membership database and Pumpout Program customer database. Monitored water quality and phytoplankton populations at various stations throughout the bay andassisted in the Juvenile Lobster Survey, which monitors juvenile lobster populations in the bay