Roland Hall

Biography

Professor Hall's research combines fields of aquatic ecology, paleolimnology and multivariate statistics to assess effects of multiple stressors on lakes, wetlands and reservoirs. Professor Hall manages the WATER Lab (University of WATerloo Environmental change Research Lab), a facility dedicated to the analysis of long term environmental records to address ecological issues. Much of our research focuses on water-rich northern landscapes, including: the Peace-Athabasca Delta (northern Alberta), Slave River Delta and a region north of Yellowknife (NWT), Old Crow Flats (Yukon) and Huds on Bay Lowlands (northern Manitoba). Has recieved his PhD in Biology, Queen's University, 1993. He is awarded as Northwest Territories Government’s Premier’s Award for Collaboration – Team Category (2012), University of Waterloo Outstanding Performance Award for Faculty (2012, 2007), Recipient of the Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA) 2003-2007 to support training of graduate students on the project: Ecological changes in the Mackenzie Basin Deltas: Assessing the roles of climate, hydrology and human activities on sensitive lakes and wetlands over the past thousand years. He is the Member of American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Society of Canadian Limnologists, International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology.

Research Interest

Applied aquatic ecology Paleolimnology Multiple stressors Contaminants