L. Gordon Goldsborough

Biography

am a water quality specialist concerned with the impacts of humans on lakes and wetlands. Born and raised in Winnipeg, I wrote my doctoral dissertation on the effects of agricultural herbicides on the productivity and community structure of benthic algae in Delta Marsh. I then worked as a research scientist for the Manitoba Department of Environment (now Manitoba Water Stewardship), conducting an environmental assessment of the forestry use of herbicides on the ecology of boreal forest ponds. From 1986 to 1989, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Botany (now Department of Biological Sciences) at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. I then accepted a faculty position in the Department of Botany (now Department of Biology) at Brandon University, where I stayed until 1996 when I was hired as the first faculty member affiliated with the Environmental Sciences Program at the University of Manitoba. I also held an appointment in the Department of Botany (now the Department of Biological Sciences), and I served as the Director of the now-closed Delta Marsh Field Station, from 1996 to 2010. I am also involved in the Manitoba heritage community, being a Past-President of the Manitoba Historical Society and its Webmaster and an Editor of Manitoba History journal.

Research Interest

Ecosystem structure and function in freshwater wetlands, with emphasis on coastal marshes Environmental history of prairie Canada Ecology, ecophysiology and ecotoxicology of benthic algae, phytoplankton, and aquatic macrophytes Aquatic paleoecology via stratigraphic analysis of diatom microfossils and plant pigments in sediment cores Environmental chemistry of pesticides and plant nutrients