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Department of Natural Resource Sciences
Location
Location
- Macdonald-Stewart Building, Room MS3-039
- Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, Macdonald Campus
- 21,111 Lakeshore Road
- Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue QC H9X 3V9
- Canada
- Telephone: 514-398-7773
- Fax: 514-398-7990
- Email: info.macdonald [at] mcgill.ca
- Website: www.mcgill.ca/nrs
About the Department of Natural Resource Sciences
About the Department of Natural Resource Sciences
As humans depend on a wide variety of ecosystem services, society is becoming increasingly aware of the need for sustainable management of natural resources. We require the natural world to provide us with necessities such air, water, food, and energy, but also depend on ecosystems for services such as nutrient cycling, biodiversity, recreation, and the splendor of nature. Sustainable management of natural resources via governance of human activities requires an understanding of all of these elements.
The Department of Natural Resource Sciences is a multidisciplinary group with a wide range of interests including wildlife and fish biology, entomology, agriculture, soil science, microbiology, genomics, meteorology, forest science, landscape ecology, agricultural and resource economics, and environmental policy. We are concerned with populations and diversity of organisms within ecosystems; the flow of energy and nutrients through ecosystems; and processes that influence human behavior toward ecosystem services and the environment. Our graduate programs in agricultural economics, entomology, microbiology, and renewable resources, allow students to gain disciplinary depth and interdisciplinary breadth. Natural Resource Sciences plays a strong role in several undergraduate programs, from the inter-departmental Majors in:
- Environmental Biology
- Life Sciences (Biological and Agricultural)
- Environment (McGill School of Environment)
- Agro-Environmental Sciences
- Agricultural Economics
to the Specializations such as:
Programs, Courses and University Regulations—2017-2018 (last updated Aug. 17, 2017) (disclaimer)
Natural Resource Sciences Faculty
Natural Resource Sciences Faculty
| Chair |
|---|
| Brian Driscoll |
| Graduate Program Director |
| Benoît Côté |
| Program Director - Agricultural Economics |
| Paul J. Thomassin |
| Emeritus Professors |
| David M. Bird; B.Sc.(Guelph), M.Sc., Ph.D.(McG.) – Wildlife Biology |
| William H. Hendershot; B.Sc.(Tor.), M.Sc.(McG.), Ph.D.(Br. Col.) – Soil Science |
| Edmund S. Idziak; B.Sc.(Agr.), M.Sc.(McG.), D.Sc.(Delft) – Microbiology |
| Angus F. MacKenzie; B.S.A., M.Sc.(Sask.), Ph.D.(Cornell) – Soil Science |
| Peter H. Schuepp; Dipl.Sc.Nat.(Zür.), Ph.D.(Tor.) – Agricultural Physics |
| Robin K. Stewart; B.Sc.(Agr.), Ph.D.(Glas.) – Entomology |
| Professors |
| Peter Brown; B.A.(Haver.), M.A., Ph.D.(Col.) (joint appt. with Geography and McGill School of Environment) – Environmental Policy and Ethics |
| James W. Fyles; B.Sc., M.Sc.(Vic., BC), Ph.D.(Alta.) (Tomlinson Chair in Forest Ecology) – Forest Resources |
| Joann Whalen; B.Sc.(Agr.)(Dal.), M.Sc.(McG.), Ph.D.(Ohio St.) – Soil Science (William Dawson Scholar) |
| Lyle G. Whyte; B.Sc.(Regina), Ph.D.(Wat.) – Microbiology |
| Associate Professors |
| Niladri Basu; B.Sc.(Qu.), M.Sc.(Br. Col.), Ph.D.(McG.) (Canada Research Chair) (joint appt. with School of Human Nutrition) – Ecotoxicology |
| Elena Bennett; B.A.(Oberlin), M.S., Ph.D.(Wisc.) (joint appt. with McGill School of Environment) – Ecosystem Ecology (EWR Steacie Fellowship) |
| Christopher Buddle; B.Sc.(Guelph), Ph.D.(Alta.) – Forest Insect Ecology |
| Jeffrey Cardille; B.Sc.(Carn. Mell), M.Sc.(Georgia Tech.), M.Sc., PhD.(Wisc.) (joint appt. with McGill School of Environment) – Landscape Ecology |
| Benoît Côté; B.Sc., Ph.D.(Laval) – Forest Resources |
| Brian T. Driscoll; B.Sc., Ph.D.(McM.) – Microbiology |
| Gary B. Dunphy; B.Sc.(New Br.), M.Sc., Ph.D.(Nfld.) – Entomology |
| Sebastien Faucher; B.Sc., Ph.D.(Montr) – Microbiology |
| Gordon Hickey; B.Sc.(Melb.), Ph.D.(Br. Col.), EMPA(ANZSOG, Monash) – Sustainable Natural Resource Management (William Dawson Scholar) |
| Murray Humphries; B.Sc.(Manit.), M.Sc.(Alta.), Ph.D.(McG.) – Wildlife Biology (Northern Research Chair) |
| Nicolas Kosoy; B.Sc.(Univ. Simon Bolivar), M.Sc.(Kent & Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona), Ph.D.(Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona) (joint appt. with McGill School of Environment) – Ecological Economics |
| Ian B. Strachan; B.Sc.(Tor.), M.Sc., Ph.D.(Qu.) – Micrometeorology |
| Paul J. Thomassin; B.Sc.(McG.), M.S., Ph.D.(Hawaii Pac.) – Agricultural and Environmental Economics |
| Terry A. Wheeler; B.Sc.(Nfld.), M.Sc., Ph.D.(Guelph) – Entomology |
| Assistant Professors |
| Kyle Elliott; B.Sc.(Br. Col.), M.Sc., Ph.D.(Manit.) (Canada Research Chair) – Avian Conservation Biology |
| Sebastien Faucher; B.Sc., Ph.D.(Montr.) – Microbiology |
| Aurélie Harou; B.Sc.(Sus.), M.Sc.(Calif., Davis), Ph.D.(Cornell) |
| Jessica Head; B.Sc.(McG.), Ph.D.(Ott.) – Ecotoxicology |
| Nicoleta Uzea; B.Sc.(Acad. Economic Studies, Bucharest), M.Sc.(MAICh, Greece), Ph.D.(Sask.) |
| Associate Member |
| David Green (Redpath Museum) |
| Adjunct Professors |
| Asim Biswas |
| Doug Crump |
| Kimberly Fernie |
| Charles W. Greer |
| Suren Kulshreshtha |
| Christopher Solomon |
| Affiliate Member |
| Geoffrey Sunahara |
Programs, Courses and University Regulations—2017-2018 (last updated Aug. 17, 2017) (disclaimer)
Faculty of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences—2017-2018 (last updated Aug. 17, 2017) (disclaimer)
