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2021 research grants competition - results by peer review committee

Geosciences
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