Faculty

Valerio Faraoni earned a BSc in Physics (Laurea in Fisica) at the University of Pavia, Italy, and an MSc and PhD (1991) in Astrophysics under the supervision of Prof. George F.R. Ellis at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy (www.sissa.it). He has held various research and teaching appointments at the University of Victoria, B.C., the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Pune, India, the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, and the University of Northern British Columbia. He came to Bishop's University in 2005, where he is currently an Associate Professor in the physics department.

Glacial Environments, Geomorphology, Global Environmental Change, Soils and Vegetation, Natural Hazards

Dr. Jones earned his Bachelor's degree at McMaster University and his Masters degree at University of Alberta, as well as receiving his PhD from University of Waterloo. He teaches a variety of courses, including Geomorphology, Soils and Vegetation, Environmental Change, Glacial Environments, and Natural Hazards.

Dr. Levac has a Ph.D. in earth sciences from Dalhousie University, a B.Sc. in physical geography and a M. Sc. in earth sciences from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow for the Halifax Pollen and Spores Monitoring Experiment at St. Mary's University and is now applying this knowledge to monitor pollen and spores in downtown Sherbrooke. Dr. Levac conducts research in paleoceanography and paleoclimatology, more specifically on abrupt climate events such as the Younger Dryas and the 8.2 ka event, and on pollen monitoring and allergies. She is adjunct professor at McGill and at the Université de Sherbrooke. She is member of the Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre at McGill.

Dr. Michael Richardson is Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. He teaches a variety of courses including Introductory Biology, Vertebrate Zoology, Freshwater Biology, Evolution, The Life of Fishes, Animal Behavior, and Field Biology. (add link to Academic Calendar) He received both his undergraduate and graduate training in Wildlife Biology from the Macdonald Campus of McGill University. His Master's and Doctoral research involved using the common goldfish (Carassius auratus) as a model for better understanding how exotic fish become established and the impacts they have on small lakes and ponds.

He has supervised a number of undergraduate honours projects involved in behavioral ecology, including studies in testicular adduction in Howler monkeys, anti-predator vigilance in Harbour seals, age related fecundity in Tree Swallows, and the factors affecting the reproductive performance of Red-breasted Mergansers.

Dr. Jade Savage completed her bachelor's degree in Biology in 1998 and her PhD in Entomology in 2004 at McGill University. She joined the Department of Biological Sciences at Bishop's University in July 2004. She has traveled extensively, throughout North America and abroad, to take part in conferences and research field expeditions in Canada, the United States, Costa Rica, Australia, and Sweden. Dr. Savage was recently awarded four grants from NSERC and FQRNT totaling $108,485 to pursue her work on the systematics and biodiversity of Diptera (true flies).

She is an adjunct professor at the University of Manitoba and an emeritus curator at the Lyman Museum of McGill University and is currently co-supervising two M.Sc. projects through these institutions. The first, by Amy Moores, investigates the impact of patch size on the Diptera fauna of peat bogs of southern Quebec and northern Vermont. The second project, by Anais Renaud, is looking at changes in the distribution and composition of the Diptera fauna of Churchill (Manitoba) over the last century.

Dr. van Hulst is Full Professor in the Department of Biological Studies. He was trained in the Netherlands and in Canada. He obtained his PhD in mathematical ecology from the University of Western Ontario. He has extensive field experience in a wide range of habitats, from the Arctic tundra to the wet tropics. Dr. van Hulst has collaborated with Dr. Colette Ansseau (Université de Sherbrooke) and other researchers in the study of maple dieback, the massive mortality that occurred in the late 1980s and the 1990s in North American sugar maple forests. His passion is the use of mathematical models to better understand natural ecologies.

Dr. Wood is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Bishop's University and Adjunct Professor at Université de Sherbrooke. He earned his Bachelor of Science and PhD in Chemistry at University of New Brunswick. His primary field of research is main-group inorganic chemistry.