George Fedak
Research interests include cytogenetics, molecular genetics, plant gene conservation, evaluation and implementation, biotechnology, tissue culture, and plant breeding. Email at fedakga@agr.gc.ca

Canada Forest Service, Sault St. Marie

Louis De Grandpre
Research topics include succession (post fire and harvesting), natural forest dynamics, community ecology, sustainable forest management, modeling (disturbance regime and diversity), and biodiversity. Email at louis.degrandpre@nrcan.gc.ca

Mike Flannigan
Fire and weather/climate interactions including the potential impact of climate change, lightning - ignited forest fires, landscape fire modeling and interactions between vegetation, fire and weather. Email at mflannig@nrcan.gc.ca

Cereal Research Centre, Winnipeg

Jeannie Gilbert
Plant pathology; leaf spotting diseases of wheat caused by Pyrenophora, Stagonospora, Septoria and Cochliobolus species; Fusarium head blight. Email at jgilbert@em.agr.ca

Steven Haber
Viruses and virus diseases of small grain cereal crops. Research topic also include development of cereal germplasm with improved virus resistance, sensative diagnostic techniques, plant pathology and internation development. Email at shaber@agr.gc.ca

Brent McCallum
Cereal rust pathology: surveying for the presence of stem and leaf rust in cereal crops and analyzing collections on differential sets to determine the proportion of each race present. Research also includes screening cereal breeding lines in the field and in the greenhouse to determine their level of resistance/susceptibility to common races of stem rust.  Other areas of interest also include genetic and molecular genetic analysis of host and pathogen. Email at bmccallum@em.agr.ca

Julian Thomas
In common wheat, mapping of pest resistance genes and the use of cytogenetic constructs for the manipulation of pest resistance with special reference to wheat leaf rust and fusarium head blight. Email at jthomas@agr.gc.ca

Clemson University, South Carolina

Geoff Wang
Silvics (autecology) of boreal tree species (especially their distribution and growth in response to global change; the impact of natural disturbance and silviculture practice on forest regeneration and stand dynamics; ecological modelling of stand dynamics, site-productivity relationship, and growth/yield; ecological site classification and its application in silviculture and growth/yield research; forest management and silviculture decision-support system; disturbance-landscape pattern interaction. Email at wang@io.uwinnipeg.ca

Ducks Unlimited Canada

Henry Murkin
Wetland ecology; wastewater treatment technology and use of wetlands therein; global climate change and carbon storage in wetlands; aquatic invertebrate and waterfowl biology. Email at h_murkin@ducks.ca

Fresh Water Institute, Winnipeg

Diane Malley
Applications of near-infrared spectroscopy (molecular spectroscopy) in aquatic and terrestrial environments for compositional and functional analysis of sediments, soils, and plants in the context of fertility, chemical contamination (heavy metals, petroleum hydrocarbons), toxicity (binding properties of sediments) or environmental stress (climate change). Email at diane_malley@fwi.dfo.ca

Michael Turner
Aquatic research, set primarily in the boreal forest at the Experimental Lakes Area in northwestern Ontario; limnology with specialization in the littoral sub ecosystem; current research challenges include (a) analysis of chemical and biological blockages to the recovery of lakes from acidification, and (b) aquatic impacts of climate change (e.g. reduced terrestrial yield of dissolved organic carbon). Email at turnermi@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

Parks Canada, Winnipeg

John Wilmshurst
No research information currently available. Email at john_wilmshurst@pc.gc.ca

University of Winnipeg

Richard Staniforth
Reproductive biology of boreal and arctic plants; conservation of biodiversty, threatened species and relict ecosystems; seed banks; restoration ecology. Emal at richard.staniforth@uwinnipeg.ca

Jacques Tardif
Forest disturbance dynamics; use of dendrochronology and image analysis in the study of tree growth relative to climate and environmental factors. Email at j.tardif@io.uwinnipeg.ca

Richard Westwood
Insect and disease management in forest health and protection programs, environmental impact of forest resources management on forest biodiversity, urban forestry and biology and management of endangered orchids in forest and prairie ecosystems. Email at r.westwood@uwinnipeg.ca