People Involved

The WATER team is comprised of CRI researchers across five different Canadian Universities, including university professors, Federal research scientists, and six Canadian Research Chairs. Academic collaborators on the WATER team include experts in instructional design and science education.

Program Director

The program Director (PD), Dr. Kelly Munkittrick, will be responsible for the overall project management (including financial), administration (including coordinating the writing of annual reports to NSERC), coordination (including contact with partners and collaborators, and feedback from the students) and the recruitment of students, manages the WATER program.

Program Coordinator

The program Coordinator, Dr. Michelle Gray, will assist the PD. The Program Coordinator position will provide support to: organization of Program and Management Committee meetings; structuring and organization of the training modules; compilation of training material; collaborator liaison and networking; web development; and advertisement of HQP positions.

Co-applicants

  • Dr. Simon Courtenay - Fisheries and Oceans Canada
  • Dr. Joseph Culp - Environment Canada
  • Dr. Allen Curry - University of New Brunswick - Fredericton
  • Dr. Rob de Loë - University of Waterloo
  • Dr. Karen Kidd - University of New Brunswick - Saint John
  • Dr. Deborah MacLatchy - Wilfred Laurier University
  • Dr. Mark Servos - University of Waterloo
  • Dr. André St. Hilaire - Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
  • Dr. Michael van den Heuvel - University of Prince Edward Island

For more information on each co-applicant, visit the Co-applicants page.

Partners

For more information on each current collaborator, visit the Partners page.

Other key partners will be involved in the interchange program, including existing partners from the Federal government (Jean-Francois Bibeault, Manager Water Quality Monitoring Division, Environment Canada; Roland Cormier, Fisheries and Oceans Canada), the provincial government (NB DNR, DOE reps). A variety of additional partners are expected to come forward as the program develops, and the CRI has a wide variety of existing partners in research programs. 

Program Management (under development)

The WATER Program Committee will provide strategic guidance in an advisory capacity, challenges the group of researchers to think innovatively, and overviews and approves annual progress reports.

The PC will be tentatively composed of:

  • an academic educational specialist (Dr. Karen Sullenger, Director NSERC Centre for Research in Youth, Science Teaching and Learning (CRYSTAL) Atlantique) - Program Committee Chair
  • a senior representative from private sector
  • a senior representative from government partners
  • department head from applicant's or co-applicant's universities
  • a CREATE graduate student representative
  • the Program Director as non-voting member