ACADEMIC PROGRAMS-GRADUATE

Graduate Academic Unit Faculty Members

* - UNB Saint John
** - Adjunct Professor
*** - Professor Emeritus

D.J. BAIRD, BSc, PhD (Univ. of Glasgow, UK) Aquatic Ecology, focuses on the study of how environmental stressors (e.g. contraminants, habitat loss, climate change) interact to pose a threat to the biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems.

M.A. BARBEAU, BSc (McGill), PhD (Dalhousie). Population ecology; marine ecology; aquaculture.

K.D. BARCLAY, BSc (UNB), MSc (Waterloo), PhD (Guelph).

T. BENFEY, BSc (McGill), MSc (Memorial), PhD (British Columbia). Physiology of growth and reproduction in teleost fishes; aquaculture.

***M.D.B.BURT, BSc, PhD (St. Andrews). Biology of platyhelminths and parasite ecology.

**D. CAMPBELL, BSc (Hons) (Acadia), PhD (Univ. Western Ontario). Cyanobacterial Physiology and Eco-Physiology/

**P.A. CHAMBERS, BSc (Trent), PhD (University of St. Andrews, UK). Aquatic plant ecology, aquatic nutrient dynamics, stream ecology

**J.W. CHARDINE, BSc (Guelph), MSc (Brock), PhD (Dunelm). Seabird ecology.

*T.B.R. CHOPIN, BSc (Lyon), MSc (Brest), DEA (Paris), PhD (Brest). Ecophysiology and biochemistry of seaweeds; integrated aquaculture.

D.V. CLARK, BSc (British Columbia), PhD (Simon Fraser). Genetics of nucleotide metabolism, genome organization, and chromosome structure in Drosophila.

**D. CONE, BSc, MSc (Zoology) Univ. of Guelp, PhD (Biology) UNB. Fish and their diseases, myxozoans, viviparous monogenes.

D.H. COOMBS, BA (Dartmouth), PhD (California, Los Angeles). Virology and molecular biology.

J.M. CULP, BSc (Oklahoma) MSc (Calgary) PhD (Calgary). Stream ecology, benthic food webs, environmental effects monitoring.

R.A. CUNJAK, BSc (Guelph), MSc (Memorial), PhD (Waterloo). Fish ecology and behaviour.

R. A. CURRY, BES (Hons) (Waterloo), MSc (Trent), PhD (Guelph). Fish ecology and population dynamics.

L.C. CWYNAR, BSc, MSc, PhD (Toronto) Arctic-boreal plant ecology and paleoecology.

A.W. DIAMOND, BA (Cambridge), MSc, PhD (Aberdeen). Evolutionary ecology of birds.

A.S. DIDYK, BA (UNB), PhD (UNB). Taxonomy and ecology of parasitic helminths and ectoparasites

D.G.DURNFORD, BSc (Dalhousie), PhD (British Columbia). Chloroplast-nucleus signal transduction pathways; photosynthetic acclimation to environmental stress.

G.J. FORBES, BA (York), MA, PhD (Waterloo). Wildlife ecology, conservation biology and ecosystem management.

*K.A. FREGO, BSc (Winnipeg), MSc (Manitoba), PhD (Toronto). Plant ecology; Bryology and forest ecology.

S.B. HEARD, BSc (Waterloo), PhD (Pennsylvania). Ecological Controls on the Evolution of Biodiversity.

*J.A. JOHNSON, BSc, MSc, PhD (UNB). Mycology; Plant pathology.

D.M. KEPPIE, BS (Wisconsin), MS (Oregon State), PhD (Alberta). Wildlife ecology; Populations.

*J.D. KIEFFER, BSc (Ottawa), MSc, PhD (Queens). Fish metabolism and energetics.

D. KUBIEN, BScFor (UBC), MSc (Carleton), PhD (Toronto). Physiological plant ecology, photosynthesis, temperature, C4 plants, and Rubisco kinetics.

J.E. LAWRENCE, BSc, PhD (Dalhousie). Microalgal Ecology and Algal Virology.

*M.K. LITVAK, BSc (York), MSc, PhD (Toronto). Fish ecology and aquaculture.

***A. LOGAN, BSc, PhD (Dunelm). Stucture of coral reef communities; brachiopod systematics and ecology.

*B. MACDONALD, BSc (Acadia), MSc (UNB), PhD (Memorial). Physiological ecology of marine invertebrates; Adaptations, feeding strategies and aquaculture.

*D. MACLATCHY, BSc(H) (Acadia), PhD (Manitoba). Fish reproductive endocrinology and toxicology.

*K.R. MUNKITTRICK, BSc, MSc (Guelph), PhD (Waterloo). Aquatic toxicology and ecosystem health.

A.M. NEDELCU, BSc (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania), PhD (Dalhousie).Evolution of complexity, sex and programmed cell death, organelle genomes; green algae.

C.L. PATTEN. MSc, PhD (Waterloo). Functional genomics in beneficial plant-bacterial interactions.

S.J. PEAKE, BSc (Guelph), MSc (Waterloo), PhD (Simon Fraser).Fish exercise physiology, lake sturgeon ecology and aquaculture.

**Y. PELLETIER, BSc (Laval), MSc (Laval), PhD (Pennsylvania State). Entomology.

D.T.W. QUIRING, BSc (Simon Fraser), PhD (Laval). Insect ecology and pest management.

O.P. RAJORA, BSc Biology, MSc Botany, LL.B. Law (Meerut University), PhD (University of Toronto). Plant molecular, population and conservation genetics; Structural, functional and conservation genomics; Biotechnology; Bioinformatics

R.T. RIDING, BS (Maine), MS (Wisconsin), PhD (California, Davis). Plant anatomy; Plant morphogenesis.

**R.J. RITCHIE, BSc-Hons (British Columbia), PhD (Oxford, England). Molecular biology, fish health

*R. ROCHETTE, Bsc, Msc, Phd (Laval). Marine Invertebrate Zoology and Evolutionary Ecology

G.W. SAUNDERS, BSc(H), MSc (Acadia), PhD (Simon Fraser). Evolution and traditional/molecular systematics of marine and freshwater Protista.

**J.E. SYMONDS, BSc-Hons, Univ.of Newcastle, UK, PhD, Australian National Univ., Canberra. Application of genetics, breeding and biotechnology to aquaculture.

*J.M. TERHUNE, BSc, MSc (Guelph), Lic. Scient. (Aarhus). Vertebrate physiology; Marine mammals.

***M.L.H. THOMAS, BSc (Durham), MSc (Guelph), PhD (Dalhousie). Benthic, intertidal, and estuarine ecology; marine pollution biology; mangrove ecology.

J. WATMOUGH, BSc, MSc, PhD (UBC). Mathematical Modelling, Epidemiology, Ecology, Spatial and Behavioural Heterogeneities.

P. WELLS, BSc (McGill), MSc (Toronto), PhD (Guelph). Marine Zoology, Aquatic Toxicology, Marine Ecotoxicology, Ecology and Science in Coastal and Ocean Management.

**F.G. WHORISKEY, BSc (Brown), PhD (Laval). Fish ecology, exotic species introductions and environmental impact assessment.


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