Brian Branfireun, Phd

Biography

Brian Branfireun, Ph.D. Professor, Canada Research Chair in Environment and Sustainability, Cross-appointed with Earth Sciences and Geography, of Department of Biology at University of Western Ontario, Canada. PhD (Biochemistry) University of Guelph, 1991. PhD, McGill University

Research Interest

Taking an interdisciplinary environmental science approach, Dr. Branfireun and his research group seek to understand the bidirectional nature of hydrological – ecological interactions at a range of scales. They direct their efforts toward ecosystems that are particularly sensitive to the impacts of natural and human-induced environmental change. Dr. Branfireun is involved in projects studying the hydrology, ecology and biogeochemistry of wetland-dominated environments from the Canadian sub-arctic to the sub-tropics of Mexico. Dr. Branfireun's research program is strongly field oriented, using the latest approaches to the measurement of environmental processes. He also directs a modern laboratory facility in the BIOTRON Institute for Experimental Climate Change Research at Western University for the study of speciated trace metals in the environment such as mercury and arsenic.