Faculty

BRENDAN MURPHY

Assistant Professor

Research Area: Geomorphology, watershed-scale sediment dynamics, post-wildfire environments, water security, climatic controls on landscape evolution, and resource management.

CHELSEA LITTLE

Assistant Professor

chelsea_little@sfu.ca
778-782-5391
TASC 2 8546

Research Area: Ecosystem functioning, community ecology and meta-ecosystem ecology.

JEREMY VENDITTI

Professor

jeremy_venditti@sfu.ca
TASC 2 8548

Research Area: Fluvial Geomorphology and Sedimentology, River Dynamics, Physics of Sediment Transport

KAREN KOHFELD

Director & Professor

sesdir@sfu.ca
TASC 2 8903

Research Area: Climate change, earth system science, carbon cycling, paleoceanography, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, ocean acidification, and regional impacts of climate change.

MARGARET SCHMIDT [on leave]

Associate Professor & Undergraduate Studies Committee Chair

margaret_schmidt@sfu.ca
RCB 7133

Research Area: Soil science, digital soil mapping, predictive soil mapping and modelling, impact of forest management practices on soil properties and nutrient cycling, soil rehabilitation.

RUTH JOY

Assistant Professor

rjoy@sfu.ca
TASC 2 8901

Research Area: Developing models that assess the relative impact of anthropogenic stressors on both marine and terrestrial species at risk.

SHAWN CHARTRAND

Assistant Professor

shawn_chartrand@sfu.ca
778-782-5431
TASC 2 8544

Research Area: How rivers form and co-evolve with landscapes with particular interest in mountain rivers and cold regions of the Arctic.

TARA HOLLAND

Senior Lecturer & acting Undergraduate Studies Committee Chair

tara_holland@sfu.ca
TASC 2 8904

Research Area: Climate change impacts and adaptation in natural resource sectors, human impacts on coastal environments, and forest fragmentation patterns.