AEEC
Aquactic Ecosystems
&
Environmental Change
Laboratory
Carleton University
People.
Jesse vermaire
Current gradute students
Current undergradute students
Matt Brown
BSc Honours thesis
The impact of zebra mussels on aquatic plant biomass in eastern Ontario lakes.
Drake Hyden
BSc Honours thesis
The impact of arsenic contamination on sedimentary diatom assemblages.
Owen Haggart
BSc Honours thesis
Microplastics at Petrie Island, Ottawa River.
Former graduate students
Emma Davis
Thesis title: The influence of vegetation and climate on wildfires in Jasper, Alberta, Canada, over the last 3500 years (co-supervised with Dr. Michel Pisaric, Brock University)
People.
Jesse vermaire
Current Graduate Students
Nicolas Pelletier
PhD student
Thesis: The relationship between wildfire activity and mercury concentrations in northern lake ecosystems over the last ~500 years. (co-supervised with Dr. John Chetelat, Environment and Climate Change Canada)
Mubashshera Rahman
PhD student
Thesis: Water quality changes in eastern Ontario recreational lakes in relation to climate and land-use changes over the last century.
Shaun Forrest
PhD student
Thesis: Temporal and spatial trends of microplastic pollution in the Ottawa River, Canada
Amanda Little
MSc student
Thesis: Diatom and zooplankton response to legacy arsenic contamination of northeastern Ontario lakes
Colin Robertson
MSc student
Thesis: Chironomid response to wildfire and mercury in northern Canadian lakes
Michael Murphy
MSc student
Thesis: Water quality changes in White Lake, eastern Ontario, in response to land-use change
Katia Mckercher
MSc student
Thesis: Diatom functional groups as indicators of water quality change (co-supervised with Dr. Joe Bennett; Department of Biology, Carleton University)
Alexa D'Addario
MSc student
Thesis: Microplastic consumption by invertebrates in the Ottawa River
Current undergraduate students
Sabrina Reaume
BSc Honours thesis
Thesis: Comparison of summer microplastic concentrations in the Ottawa and Rideau Rivers
Nicole Odhiambo
BSc Honours thesis
Are crayfish in the Rideau River consuming microplastics
Christina Frendo
BSc Honours thesis
Response of chironomid communities to legacy arsenic pollution in northeastern Ontario lakes
Former graduate students
Dale Sprague
MSc Thesis: Lake sediment geochemistry in northeastern Ontario; the geologic controls on natural background variation and investigating lakes contaminated with arsenic-rich mine tailings in Cobalt, ON
Emma Davis
MSc Thesis title: The influence of vegetation and climate on wildfires in Jasper, Alberta, Canada, over the last 3500 years (co-supervised with Dr. Michel Pisaric, Brock University)
Former undergraduate students
2016 – 2017
Jennifer Vig
Thesis: Plastic pollution in the sediment of the Ottawa River
2016 – 2017
Diandra Buttazzoni
Thesis: Interannual variability in submerged macrophyte biovolume in eastern Ontario Lakes
about Our Research.
We are interested in environmental change, particularly how land-use and climate change are impacting freshwater ecosystems. Our research focuses on three broad areas: 1) impacts of climate and nutrient enrichment on lakes and streams, 2) ecosystem resilience, regime shifts, and recovery in freshwater systems and 3) the importance land use and legacy contaminants in altering aquatic ecosystems. Because changes to the environment often occur over large areas and at timescales of decades or longer our lab employs a variety of techniques including lake survey studies, paleolimnology, and the analysis of long-term data sets to meet our research objectives.
 Aquatic plants |  Pollution of lakes and rivers |  Environmental change |  Extreme events |
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CONTACT.
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies &
Institute of Environmental Science
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
K1S 5B6
Tel: 613-520-2600 ext 3898