Project Leads
Dr. Gary Stern
Dr. Gary Stern is the GENICE II project lead. For the past 30 years Dr. Stern’s research has involved the study of environmental pathways of contaminants including their delivery, transport, and elimination from Arctic marine and freshwater aquatic ecosystems. His current research focuses in on the development of oil detection and remediation technologies, impacts and fate of oil spills in Arctic marine environments.
Dr. Nicole Wilson
Dr. Nicole Wilson is an Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba and Canada Research Chair in Arctic Environmental Change and Governance working at the Centre for Earth Observation Science. Dr. Wilson’s research focuses on Indigenous peoples, environmental governance, and environmental change in the arctic, including how Indigenous peoples are revitalizing their governance systems to respond to climate change and resource development related stressors.
Dr. Nagissa Mahmoudi
Dr. Nagissa Mahmoudi is an Assistant Professor at the McGill Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences with expertise in geomicrobiology, microbial biogeochemistry, carbon cycling, and bioremediation. Dr. Mahmoudi’s laboratory studies microbial processes that mediate the fate of organic compounds in coastal and marine environments using field and laboratory based tools to connect microbial pathways and interactions with biochemical transformations.
Dr. Eric Collins
Dr. Eric Collins is the co-lead on GENICE II and a Canada Research Chair in Arctic Marine Microbial Ecosystem Services at the University of Manitoba. The Collins Lab works to understand the origin, evolution, distribution, and function of microorganisms in the cryosphere, including bacteria, archaea, algae, protists, fungi, and viruses. Using high-throughput and real-time sequencing of DNA, they conduct metabarcoding, genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, and metatranscriptomics. They also develop software for the analysis and visualization of large datasets using machine learning.
Dr. Dustin Isleifson
Dr. Dustin Isleifson is an Associate Professor at the University of Manitoba’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as the Centre for Earth Observation Science. Dr. Isleifson’s main research areas are remote sensing, sensor technologies, and their applications Arctic Science. His teams conduct large and small scale experiments on sea ice remote sensing.
Dr. John Sinclair
Dr. John Sinclair is a Professor and the Director of the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Sinclair’s research primarily focuses on natural resource and environmental decision making in terms of public and community participation, and as a tool for learning. Through GENICE II, Dr. Sinclair’s team considers Indigenous community and stakeholder involvement in policy development and impact assessments relating to oil spill response and shipping safety in ice-infested waters of the Canadian Arctic.
Dr. Paul Larson
Dr. Paul Larson is a Professor in Supply Chain Management at the University of Manitoba’s Asper School of Business. Dr. Larson brings a wealth of expertise and knowledge on shipping and transport to the project.
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