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2021 research grants competition - results by peer review committee
| Applicant name | Institution | Program | Title | Term | Amount awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amos, Richard Department Earth Sciences |
Carleton University | RGPIN | Quantifying the impacts of coupled physical and bio-geochemical processes on metal transport in groundwater | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Antoniades, Dermot Department Géographie |
Université Laval | RGPIN | Coastal aquatic ecosystems: integrators of environmental change in Canada's high Arctic | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Archibald, Donnelly Department Earth Sciences |
St. Francis Xavier University | RGPIN | Timescales of magmatic processes in accretionary orogens: Implications for crustal growth | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Arseneault, Dominique Department Biologie, chimie et géographie |
Université du Québec à Rimouski | RGPIN | Tree-ring research in the eastern Canadian taiga | 5 | $58,400.00 |
| Barber, David Department Environment and Geography |
University of Manitoba | RGPIN | Dynamic and Thermodynamic processes of snow covered sea ice | 5 | $51,000.00 |
| Beauchamp, Benoit Department Geoscience |
University of Calgary | RGPIN | Carbonate Systems Change during Icehouse to Greenhouse Transition | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Beaudoin, Georges Department Géologie et génie géologique |
Université Laval | RGPIN | Origin of hydrothermal deposits | 5 | $43,000.00 |
| Bennett, Neil Department Earth Sciences (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Magmatic Salts as Agents of Extreme Fractionation | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Bollmann, Jörg Department Earth Sciences (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Unravelling the fate of coccolithophores (marine microplankton) during times of rapid environmental change | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Bordeleau, Geneviève Department Eau Terre et Environnement, Centre |
Institut national de la recherche scientifique | RGPIN | Multi-isotope approaches : towards taking into account cumulative impacts of contaminants on groundwater | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Bostock, Michael Department Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Seismotectonics of Canada's West Coast | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Boucher, Étienne Department Géographie |
Université du Québec à Montréal | RGPIN | Seamless prediction and reconstruction of plant-water interactions in the boreal biome | 5 | $51,000.00 |
| Bourgault, Marc-André Department foresterie, de géographie et de géomatique, Faculté de |
Université Laval | RGPIN | Les milieux humides comme des infrastructures réduisant les risques d'inondation en contexte de changements climatiques | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Brookfield, Andrea Department Earth & Environmental Sciences |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | Hydrologic responses to concurrent changes in climate, land use and water use | 5 | $35,000.00 |
| Brown, Craig Department Oceanography |
Dalhousie | RGPIN | Geospatial modelling and mapping of seafloor ecosystems | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Cardille, Jeffrey Department Natural Resource Sciences |
McGill University | RGPIN | Change and Stability of Canada's Forested and Aquatic Landscapes: Big-data Remote Sensing on Multiple Platforms | 5 | $43,000.00 |
| Corlett, Hilary Department Arts and Science Division |
Grant MacEwan University | RGPIN | Changes in the terrestrial environment and their effect on marine carbonates | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Crawford-Alley, Karen Department Environment and Geography |
University of Manitoba | RGPIN | Investigating the boundaries of glaciology | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Cunha-Cordeiro, Marcos Department Animal Science |
University of Manitoba | RGPIN | Beef production in the Canadian Prairies: Prospects of feed availability under climate and land use change | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Cwynar, Les Department Biology (Fredericton) |
New Brunswick | RGPIN | Paleoecology of butterfly and moth populations | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Dang, Duc Department Trent School of the Environment |
Trent University | RGPIN | Understanding the environmental risks from the High-Tech industry | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Day, Susan Department Forest Resources Management |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Making Sense of Urban Soil Heterogeneity for Urban Forest Ecosystem Service Provision in a Changing Climate | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| DelSontro, Tonya Department Earth & Environmental Sciences |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | Aquatic greenhouse gas cycling in the face of global change: refining process-based understanding for enhanced predictive capabilities | 5 | $41,000.00 |
| Didier, David Department Biologie, chimie et géographie |
Université du Québec à Rimouski | RGPIN | Arctic-subarctic coastal hazards and morphodynamics (AsCHMor) | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Dyer, Blake Department Earth and Ocean Sciences, School of |
University of Victoria | RGPIN | Investigating how shallow water carbonate systems record the carbon cycle | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Gajewski, Konrad Department Geography |
University of Ottawa | RGPIN | Holocene climate change, ecosystem response and human impacts | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Gennaretti, Fabio Department Institut de recherche sur les forêts (IRF) |
Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue | RGPIN | Tree-ring anatomy to study two thousand years of climate variability and black spruce adaptations | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Gueguen, Celine Department Chimie |
Université de Sherbrooke | RGPIN | Deciphering the composition and fate of dissolved organic matter in a rapidly changing Arctic Ocean | 5 | $51,000.00 |
| Gunn, Grant Department Geography and Environmental Management |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | Implications and Applications of Emerging Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar for the Retrieval of Freshwater Ice Properties | 5 | $35,000.00 |
| Hahm, William Department Geography |
Simon Fraser University | RGPIN | Forest sensitivity to a changing climate: Investigating the role of bedrock water storage | 5 | $35,000.00 |
| Hanesiak, John Department Environment and Geography |
University of Manitoba | RGPIN | Summer Extreme Weather: Improving Climatologies, Prediction and Assessments of Future Climate | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Helbig, Manuel Department Physics and Atmospheric Science |
Dalhousie | RGPIN | The role of land-atmosphere feedbacks in heatwave and drought development | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Heung, Brandon Department Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences |
Dalhousie | RGPIN | Designing a System for Digital Soil Assessments by Integrating Soil Sensor Technologies with Unmanned Aerial Systems | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Hill, David Department Geography |
Thompson Rivers University | RGPIN | Integrating Very-High-Resolution Imagery into Adaptive Rangeland Management | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Hobbs, Tiegan Department Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Identifying potentially active faults in mainland British Columbia using available datasets | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Homayouni, Saeid Department Eau Terre et Environnement, Centre |
Institut national de la recherche scientifique | RGPIN | Données massives de l'Observations de la Terre, l'intelligence artificielle et de l'apprentissage profond au service des applications environnementales | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Hu, Baoxin Department Earth and Space Science and Engineering |
York University | RGPIN | Smart deep learning by incorporating remote sensing domain knowledge in vegetation characterization | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Johnson, Catherine Department Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Geophysical Investigations of Mars and Mercury | 5 | $95,000.00 |
| Kallenbach, Cynthia Department Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of |
McGill University | RGPIN | Investigating interactions between mineral-associated and dissolved soil organic matter to improve understanding of soil carbon retention under intermittent flooding | 5 | $35,000.00 |
| Kellett, Dawn Department Geology |
Saint Mary's | RGPIN | Faults and fluids in accretionary orogens | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Kenney, Janice Department Arts and Science Division |
Grant MacEwan University | RGPIN | Reactivity of pharmaceuticals in soils | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Langlois, Alexandre Department Géomatique appliquée |
Université de Sherbrooke | RGPIN | Quantifying multi-scale impacts of winter extreme events on the atmosphere-snow-ground interface in the Arctic | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Larson, Kyle Department Okanagan |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Orogen parallel flow in convergent systems | 5 | $61,000.00 |
| Leighton, Lindsey Department Earth and Atmospheric Sciences |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | Evaluating the Influence of Scale on Paleoecological Results | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Liu, Qinya Department Physics (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Full waveform inversions and source characterization based on spectral-element simulations: innovative datasets and inversion strategies | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Marini Marson, Juliana Department Environment and Geography |
University of Manitoba | RGPIN | Polar ocean responses and feedbacks to a rapidly changing climate | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| McCutcheon, Jenine Department Earth & Environmental Sciences |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | Deciphering the structure and chemistry of microbial mat-fluid-mineral interactions in three-dimensions for application to environmental challenges | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| McKellar, Ryan Department Biology |
University of Regina | RGPIN | Late Cretaceous Amber Deposits from Saskatchewan, Canada | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Medeiros, Andrew Department Resource and Environmental Studies, School of |
Dalhousie | RGPIN | Understanding the past to predict the future: Paleolimnology for management and planning of freshwater resources in a warming climate | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Murphy, Brendan Department Environment, Faculty of |
Simon Fraser University | RGPIN | Climate, erosion & sediment dynamics: Investigating controls on landscape evolution | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Omelon, Christopher Department Geography |
Queen's University | RGPIN | Impacts of Talik Microbial Geochemistry on a Changing Permafrost Landscape | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Orsi, Anais Department Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Towards a better understanding of polar climate variability | 5 | $66,000.00 |
| Peace, Alexander Department Geography and Earth Sciences, School of |
McMaster University | RGPIN | Structural and magmatic evolution of rifts and passive margins: implications for continental breakup and natural resources in Canada | 5 | $35,000.00 |
| Peros, Matthew Department Environmental Studies and Geography |
Bishop's | RGPIN | North Atlantic Storminess During the Holocene | 5 | $43,000.00 |
| Perrouty, Stéphane Department Earth Sciences |
Laurentian University | RGPIN | Precambrian crustal growth in the Canadian shield: investigating a billion year of tectono-magmatic evolution in Winnipeg River subprovince, Ontario, Canada | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Ponsin, Violaine Department Sciences de la Terre et de l'atmosphère |
Université du Québec à Montréal | RGPIN | Understanding the transformation of emerging organic contaminants in surface and groundwater | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Remmel, Tarmo Department Geography |
York University | RGPIN | Assessing forest disturbance and recovery with spatial and temporal structural morphology | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Richards, Michael Department Archaeology |
Simon Fraser University | RGPIN | Reconstructing Late Pleistocene ecology, environment and climate using bulk and compound specific isotope measurements of megafauna | 5 | $43,000.00 |
| Robbins, Leslie Department Geology |
University of Regina | RGPIN | Chemostratigraphic insights on the evolution of surface environments and life over Earth's history | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Romanic, Djordje Department Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences |
McGill University | RGPIN | Urban Sustainability and Resilience to Thunderstorm Winds | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Rottier, Bertrand Department Géologie et génie géologique |
Université Laval | RGPIN | Impact of sulfide saturation events on the fertility of porphyry-related magmatic system | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Saulnier-Talbot, Émilie Department Biologie |
Université Laval | RGPIN | Long-term winter ecology and sea ice phenology in subarctic, high-use coastal ecosystems | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Saumur, Benoit Department Sciences de la Terre et de l'atmosphère |
Université du Québec à Montréal | RGPIN | Magmatic Mineral Deposits: Their Genesis through Structural Fieldwork and Analogue Modelling | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Schaeffer, Andrew Department Earth and Ocean Sciences, School of |
University of Victoria | RGPIN | Unravelling the complex tectonics of western and northwestern Canada using broadband seismic data | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Schneider, Kimberley Department Plant Agriculture (Guelph) |
University of Guelph | RGPIN | Understanding management effects on soil organic matter and ecological function in forage-based agroecosystems. | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Schneider, Robert Department Biologie, chimie et géographie |
Université du Québec à Rimouski | RGPIN | Linking forest structure to forest productivity using remote sensing | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Sio, (Corliss) Kin I Department Earth Sciences (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Igneous petrology through the lens of non-traditional stable isotopes | 5 | $35,000.00 |
| Stotler, Randy Department Earth & Environmental Sciences |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | Characterizing Fluid Flow Pathways from Plot to Landscape Scale | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Strachan, Ian Department Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of |
McGill University | RGPIN | Carbon dynamics of a freshwater marsh ecosystem | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Su, Zhan Department Physics (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Ocean Small Eddies Interaction with Large-scale Circulation and Sea Ice | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Swidinsky, Andrei Department Earth Sciences (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Resource exploration for a net-zero emission future with electromagnetic methods in applied geophysics | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Tan, Ivy Department Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences |
McGill University | RGPIN | Understanding and constraining extratropical clouds in Earth's present and changing climate | 5 | $35,000.00 |
| Van Wychen, Wesley Department Geography and Environmental Management |
University of Waterloo | RGPIN | Remote Sensing Based Approaches to Enable Process-based Glacier Studies in Canada | 5 | $35,000.00 |
| Vriens, Bas Department Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering |
Queen's University | RGPIN | Sustainable mine waste management: from microscale hydrogeochemical processes to macroscale prediction models | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Wallace, Douglas Department Oceanography |
Dalhousie | RGPIN | Insights into biogeochemical transformations and fluxes from high-frequency ocean time-series data. | 5 | $51,000.00 |
| Wei, Xiaohua Department Okanagan |
The University of British Columbia | RGPIN | Determining forest disturbance thresholds for managing cumulative hydrological impacts | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Widory, David Department GEOTOP |
Université du Québec à Montréal | RGPIN | Environmental contaminants: Sources and fate by innovative multi-proxy isotope approaches | 5 | $30,000.00 |
| Wunch, Debra Department Physics (St. George Campus) |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Atmospheric measurements of the carbon cycle | 5 | $36,000.00 |
| Xu, Xiaoyong Department Toronto at Mississauga |
University of Toronto | RGPIN | Integration of state-of-the-art satellite soil moisture and terrestrial water storage products with hydrological modeling in support of water security in Canada | 5 | $25,000.00 |
| Zonneveld, John-Paul Department Earth and Atmospheric Sciences |
University of Alberta | RGPIN | The influence of turbidity on ancient and modern coral reefs | 5 | $51,000.00 |
| Zuend, Andreas Department Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences |
McGill University | RGPIN | Quantifying the interplay of particle size, composition and phase separation: development of size-dependent aerosol thermodynamics and dynamics models for improved simulations of air quality and aerosol-cloud interactions | 5 | $30,000.00 |