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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 splendour 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 the populations and diversity of organisms within ecosystems; the flow of energy and nutrients through ecosystems; and processes that influence human behaviour 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; and
- Agricultural Economics;
to the Specializations such as:
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.(Zürich), 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 |
| Christopher Buddle; B.Sc.(Guelph), Ph.D.(Alta.) – Forest Insect Ecology |
| James W. Fyles; B.Sc., M.Sc.(Vic., BC), Ph.D.(Alta.) (Tomlinson Chair in Forest Ecology) – Forest Resources |
| Paul J. Thomassin; B.Sc.(McG.), M.S., Ph.D.(Hawaii Pac.) – Agricultural and Environmental Economics |
| 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) |
| Jeffrey Cardille; B.Sc.(Carn. Mell), M.Sc.(Georgia Tech.), M.Sc., Ph.D.(Wisc. Madison) (joint appt. with McGill School of Environment) – Landscape Ecology |
| Benoît Côté; B.Sc.A., 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.For.Sci.(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 & Autonoma, Barcelona), Ph.D.(Autonoma, Barcelona) (joint appt. with McGill School of Environment) – Ecological Economics |
| Ian B. Strachan; B.Sc.(Tor.), M.Sc., Ph.D.(Qu.) – Micrometeorology |
| Assistant Professors |
| Kyle Elliott; B.Sc.(Br. Col.), M.Sc., Ph.D.(Manit.) (Canada Research Chair) – Avian Conservation Biology |
| Aurélie Harou; B.Sc.(Sus.), M.Sc.(Calif., Davis), Ph.D.(Cornell) |
| Jessica Head; B.Sc.(McG.), Ph.D.(Ott.) – Ecotoxicology |
| Cynthia Kallenbach; B.Sc.(Sonoma St.), M.Sc., M.Sc.(Calif., Davis), Ph.D.(N. Hamp.) |
| Melissa McKinney; B.Sc.(Br. Col.), M.Sc.,(Windsor), Ph.D.(Car.) |
| Denis Roy; B.Sc.(Qu.), M.Sc., Ph.D.(Windsor) |
| Associate Member |
| Christopher Barrington (School of Environment) |
| David Green (Redpath Museum) |
| Adjunct Professors |
| Asim Biswas |
| Kimberly Fernie |
| Charles W. Greer |
| Baoluo Ma |
| Christopher Solomon |
| Affiliate Member |
| Geoffrey Sunahara |
