Dr. Brock Edwards

ENVR 1000 – Environmental Science 1 – Concepts
ENVR 2000 – Environmental Science 2 – Issues
ENVR 2350 - Technical Communication in the Environmental Sectors 

My teaching interests lie in building a foundational understanding of earth systems and ecology, from which to explore interdisciplinary and interconnected environmental processes and link these to issues on local, regional, and global scales. As an academic, I am interested in the environmental behaviour of contaminants such as mercury and hydrocarbons; volcanic hazards and air quality; and environmental ethics and deep ecology.

Dastoor, A., Angot, H., Bieser, J., Brocza, F., Edwards, B.A., Feinberg, A., Feng, X., Geyman, B., Gournia, C., He, Y., Hedgecock, I.M., Ilyin, I., Keating, T., Kirk, J., Lin, C.-J., Lehnherr, I., Mason, R., McLagan, D., Muntean, M., Rafaj, P., Roy, E.M., Ryjkov, A., Selin, N.E., De Simone, F., Soerensen, A.L., Steenhuisen, F., Travnikov, O., Wang, S., Wang, X., Wilson, S., Wu, R., Wu, Q., Zhang, Y., Zhou, J., Zhu, W., Zolkos, S, 2025. The Multi-Compartment Hg Modeling and Analysis Project (MCHgMAP): Mercury modeling to support international environmental policy. Geoscientific Model Development, gmd.copernicus.org/preprints/gmd-2024-65.

Edwards, B.A., Outridge, P.M., Wang, F., 2024. Mercury from Icelandic geothermal activity: high enrichments in soils, low emissions to the atmosphere. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 378: 286–299, doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2024.06.026.

Pfeffer, M.A., Arellano, S., Barsotti, S., Petersen, G.N., Barnie, T., Ilyinskaya, E., Hjörvar, T., Bali, E., Pedersen, G.B.M, Guðmundsson, G., Vogfjorð, K., Ranta, E.J., Óladóttir, B.A., Edwards, B.A., Moussallam, Y., Stefánsson, A., Scott, S.W., Smekens, J.-F., Varnam, M., Titos, M., 2024. SO2 emission rates and incorporation into the air pollution dispersion forecast during the 2021 eruption of Fagradalsfjall, Iceland. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 449: 108064, doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2024.108064.

Edwards, B.A., Pfeffer, M.A., Ilyinskaya, E., Kleine-Marshall, B.I., Mandon, C.L., Cotterill, A., Aiuppa, A., Outridge, P.M., Wang, F., 2024. Exceptionally low mercury concentrations and fluxes from the 2021 and 2022 eruptions of Fagradalsfjall volcano, Iceland. Science of the Total Environment, 917: 170457, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170457.

Koenig, A.M., Magand, O., Rose, C., Di Muro, A., Miyazaki, Y., Colomb, A., Rissanen, M., Lee, C.F., Koenig, T.K., Volkamer, R., Brioude, J., Verreyken, B., Roberts, T., Edwards, B.A., Sellegri, K., Arellano, S., Kowalski, P., Aiuppa, A., Sonke, J.E., Dommergue, A., 2023. Observed in-plume gaseous elemental mercury depletion suggests significant mercury scavenging by volcanic aerosols. Environmental Science: Atmospheres, doi.org/10.1039/D3EA00063J.

Ferris, F.G., Szponar, N., Edwards, B.A., 2021. Groundwater Microbiology. The Groundwater Project: Guelph, Ontario. 66 p., gw-project.org/books/groundwater-microbiology/.

Edwards, B.A., Kushner, D.S., Outridge, P.M., Wang, F., 2021. Fifty years of volcanic mercury emission research: knowledge gaps and future directions. Science of the Total Environment, 757: 143800, doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143800.