Ian Spooner
Earth and Environmental Science
Acadia University
Canada
Biography
Ian Spooner (P. Geo, Ph.D.) has been a professor at Acadia in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science for the past 21 years. He has supervised 22 masters and 40 honours theses to date. His primary research interest is investigating environmental change and he has active research programs in northwestern British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. He also has consulted in the areas of Environmental and Risk Assessment, groundwater and surface water contamination, coastal erosion and has been involved in environmental risk assessments for resource companies in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and British Columbia. He has served with a number of professional organizations and was recently awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Atlantic Geoscience Society.
Research Interest
Applied Physical Limnology Surface water – Groundwater Interaction Environmental Change Applied Geomorphology
Publications
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2016 Bioaccumulation of Lead and Arsenic in Gastropods Inhabiting Salt Marsh Ponds in Coastal Bay of Fundy, Canada. Loder, A. L, Mallory, M.L. Spooner, I., McLauchlan, C. Englehardt, P.O. McLellan, N. and White, C. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 227(3), 1-12
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2016 A 500-year record of environmental change at Alta Lake, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada: a bulk geochemical perspective on the impact of development in small, shallow lakes. DW. Dunnington IS Spooner CE White, RJ Cornett, D Williamson, M Nelson. Journal of Paleolimnology. 56: 315-330
