Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
I have been working in the fields of chemical, physical, and biological limnology (freshwater oceanography) and environmental toxicology for >20 years. To date, most of my projects have been undertaken in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario (Great Lakes) and the western Arctic. GENERAL SKILLS 1) Client Relations and Team Building; 2) Writing for General, Technical and Academic Audiences; 3) Public Speaking and Media Relations; 4) Stakeholder Consultation/Conflict Mediation; 5) Conference and Meeting Facilitation; 6) Report and Manuscript Editing/Peer Review; 7) Long-Term Strategic Planning; 8) Teaching. TECHNICAL SKILLS 1) Proposal and Grant Writing, Budgeting; 2) Quantitative/Statistical Analysis; 3) Data-Rich Graphics; 4) Data Acquisition (Field, Laboratory, Literature); 5) Effective Page Layout for Reports and Manuscripts; 6) Relational Database Development; 7) Project/Program Design, Implementation, Management, and Evaluation. RESEARCH AREAS 1) Limnology and Water Quality (Streams, Rivers and Lakes); 2) Aquatic Primary Producers; 3) Watershed Assessment & Restoration; 4) Nutrients/Metals Dynamics; 5) Pollutant Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification; 6) Cold and Temperate Environments; 7) Fisheries; 8) Species at Risk; 9) Environmental Policy and Statutes.
I have worked intermittently for the University of Northern British Columbia since 2002. In 2015, I accepted a full-time Research Associate position within UNBC's Department of Geography (Landscape Ecology Research Group, LERG). A major responsibility of my current position is to work within a multidisciplinary group (hydrological, atmospheric, geological, geomorphic, chemical, physical, biological and social sciences) to develop competitive grant applications to support the research objectives of the LERG. I also contribute directly to the research being undertaken by postdoctoral fellows, research associates, associated government scientists, and undergraduate and graduate students. My own research within the LERG includes: 1) developing fast, cost-effective, and representative methods for quantitatively extracting suspended sediment from surface waters for physical and geochemical analyses; 2) quantifying the fate of fine tailings, sediment, metals, nutrients and major ions discharged (by accident) to Quesnel Lake which is the 9th deepest lake in the world and one of the world's most important sockeye salmon producers; and 3) developing geophysical and chemical sediment "finger printing" techniques to quantify sediment sources to a major regulated tributary of the Fraser River which drains 20% of BC's mainland.