Faculty

Offices are located in the Bob Wright Centre.

   
Faculty in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
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Anne-Sofie Ahm, Assistant Professor
Isotope geochemistry; seawater chemistry; carbonate diagenesis; long term carbon cycle; geobiology

Research Website

BWC A421
250-472-4182

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Dante Canil, Professor
Experimental and igneous petrology; mantle and crustal evolution; geothermobarometry; deep earth geochemical cycles

Research Website

BWC A423
250-472-4180

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Laurence Coogan, Professor
The role of the oceanic lithosphere in the Earth system; controls on ocean chemistry; the long-term carbon cycle; hydrothermal fluxes; petrology/geochemistry

Research Website

BWC A413
250-472-4018

Jay Cullen

Jay Cullen, Director, Professor
Chemical oceanography; marine biogeochemistry of trace metals; bio-inorganic chemistry; palaeoceanography and global change; stable isotope geochemistry; development of novel techniques for trace metals

Research Website

BWC A415
250-472-4353

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Stan Dosso, Professor
Ocean acoustics and geoacoustics; marine-mammal acoustics; earthquake seismology; geophysical inverse theory

BWC A331
250-472-4341

John Dower

John Dower, Professor
Biological and fisheries oceanography; zooplankton ecology; effects of biophysical coupling on the structure and productivity of pelagic marine ecosystems

Research Website

BWC A327
250-472-5010

Blake Dyer

Blake Dyer, Assistant Professor
Earth history; sedimentology and stratigraphy; isotope geochemistry of carbonates; sea level change

Research Website

BWC A433
250-721-6187
 

Andy Fraass

Andy Fraass, Assistant Professor
Micropalaeontology; palaeoceanography; palaeobiology; Earth history; macroevolution; sedimentation; stratigraphy

Research Website

BWC A431
250-721-6314
 

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Colin Goldblatt, Associate Professor
An Earth System view on atmospheres: evolution of Earth’s atmospheric composition; climate physics (deep palaeoclimate, dynamical climatology, radiative transfer, climate modelling); terrestrial planet evolution (solar system and exoplanets)

Research Website

BWC A323
250-472-4060

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Roberta Hamme, Professor
Chemical oceanography; dissolved gases; ocean carbon cycle and sequestration; air-sea interaction and water mass formation; marine productivity rates; denitrification; BGC-Argo floats; mass spectrometric gas measurements

Research Website

BWC A417
250-472-4014

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Jon Husson, Associate Professor
Earth history; stratigraphy; sedimentary carbonates; stable isotope geochemistry; U-Pb geochronology

Research Website

BWC A425
250-472-5570

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Ruohong Jiao, Assistant Professor
Fission-track and (U-Th)/He thermochronology; orogenic processes; landscape evolution modelling

Research Website

BWC A427
250-472-4354

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Jody Klymak, Professor
Physical oceanography: waves, turbulence, fronts, eddies; processes that dissipate energy from the mean ocean circulation and mediate the mixing of momentum, heat, salt, and passive tracers

Research Website

BWC A313
250-472-5969
Lucinda Leonard

Lucinda Leonard, Assistant Professor
Current tectonics, especially of western North America; seismic and tsunami hazard assessment

BWC A315
250-472-4482

Adam Monahan

Adam Monahan, Professor
Theoretical climate dynamics; boundary-layer meteorology; stochastic processes in ocean/atmosphere science; modelling biogeochemical dynamics; climate statistics

Research Website

BWC A311
250-472-5075

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Edwin Nissen, Professor
Earthquakes; active tectonics; imaging geodesy; earthquake seismology; tectonic geomorphology

Research Site

BWC A329
250-472-4340

Diana Varela

Diana Varela, Professor
Biological oceanography; biogeochemical cycles; phytoplankton physiology and ecology; variations in marine primary productivity and export production; phytoplankton utilization of nitrogen, silicon, and carbon; silicon isotopic fractionation by diatoms

Research Website

BWC A333
250-472-5425

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Andrew Weaver, Professor
Climate change policy, research, solutions, and communications; formerly focused on the role of the oceans in climate change/variability; ocean/climate modelling; palaeoclimate; physical oceanography; geophysical fluid dynamics

BWC A309
250-472-4001