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Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Principal Investigators:
Dr. Jennifer Korosi
Associate Professor

Dr. Joshua Thienpont
Assistant Professor

PhD Students:
Kristen Coleman
Trajectories and drivers of limnological change in lakes near the southern limit of permafrost

Navjot Dhaliwal
Research interests: Knowledge braiding; Ecosystem Approach; Indigenous knowledge; Critical Systems Thinking; Boundary Science; Political Approaches; Political Geography; Resource Management; Indigenous-led Conservation
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Rebecca Gasman
Cyanobacteria blooms in oligotrophic lakes of south-central Ontario and the Northwest Territories
Amanda Little
Seasons of change: The influence of seasonality and climate change on arsenic toxicity to plankton communities in mining-impacted lakes near Yellowknife (Northwest Territories, Canada)


MSc Students:
Rachael Abulu
Carbon and mercury accumulation in lake sediments in thawing permafrost peatlands (Dehcho region, Northwest Territories)

Victoria Carroll
Impacts of cryogenic landslides on foothill lakes in the Mackenzie Delta (Northwest Territories)

Sorin-Alexandru Gruia
Paleolimnological study of a lake in the Mackenzie Delta region with a highly active thaw slump
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Januja Jeyarajah
Long-term ecological change in Lake Scugog (southern Ontario, Canada) inferred using Cladocera (Branchiopoda, Crustacea) subfossil remains as paleoecological indicators

Charlie West
Paleolimnological study of phytoplankton community responses to climate warming and permafrost thaw slumping in lakes in the Mackenzie Delta region

Thomas Wu
Long-term ecological change in fish-bearing lakes in the DehCho

Undergraduate Students:
Randelle Cheyanna Adano
Chironomids as paleoecological indicators in Lake Scugog (southern Ontario, Canada)

Claire O'Hagan
Assessing sudden lake drainage in the Mackenzie Delta using remotely sensed imagery

Rachel Pellegrino
Assessing the response following rapid drainage in a lake of the Mackenzie Delta uplands, Northwest Territories, using sedimentary diatoms

Altrisha Rodrigues
Phantom midges as bioindicators of legacy arsenic ecotoxicity in Yellowknife (Northwest Territories) lakes impacted by historic gold mining operations

Asli Yusuf
Diatom subfossils as paleolimnological indicators in Frame Lake (Northwest Territories, Canada)

Past Research Members:
Dr. Emily Stewart, Research Associate/Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2022)
Pham Ha Phuong (Perry) Do, MSc. (2019-2021)
Grace Hoskin, MSc. (2018-2021)
Brad Auger, MSc. (2018-2021)
Ajay Persaud, MSc. (2018-2020)
Laiba Khan, research assistant (2017-2018)
Alana McDonald, research assistant (2018)
Jofina Victor, BSc. (2016-2017)
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