Global Environmental Change Group
Core Team
Principal Investigator
 | Barry Smit Email: bsmit@uoguelph.ca |
Current Graduate Students and Research Fellows
 | Jackie P. Dawson Research interests: Vulnerability and adaptive capacity of communities with tourism-based economies to changing conditions Email: dawsonj@uoguelph.ca |
 | Tara Holland Dissertation title: Adaptations of the Grape and Wine Industry to Changing Conditions Email: hollandt@uoguelph.ca |
 | H. Carolyn Peach Brown Research interests: Institutions and community resilience to environmental change, environmental governance, social learning, CBNRM, Africa Email: hcpbrown@uoguelph.ca |
 | Tristan Pearce Dissertation title: Generation and Transmission of Environmental Knowledge and Land Skills in Adaptation to Climate Change in the Arctic Email: tpearce@uoguelph.ca |
| Liette Connolly-Boutin Dissertation Title: Food Security, Vulnerability and Adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa. Email: lconnoll@uoguelph.ca |
| Sandra McCubbin Research Interests: Vulnerability and Adaptation to climate change in small island states of the South Pacific Email: smccubbi@uoguelph.ca |
Mark Andrachuk (MA)
Thesis title: An assessment of the vulnerability of Tuktoyaktuk to environmental and socio-economic changes
Year of graduation: 2008
Ruth DeSantis (MA)
Thesis title: Vulnerability and adaptation to environmental conditions in Hopedale, Nunatsiavut
Year of graduation: 2008
Suzanne Belliveau (MA)
Thesis title: Vulnerability of the grape and wine industry in the Okanagan Valley to climate change
Year of graduation: 2005
Laura Fleming (MA)
Thesis title: The Role of Governance, Institutions and Knowledge Systems in Adaptation to Climate Change in Hopedale, Nunatsiavut
Year of graduation: 2009
James Ford (PhD)
Dissertation title: Vulnerability to climate change in Arctic Canada
Year of graduation: 2006
Monica Hadarits (MA)
Thesis title: The Sensitivity and Adaptability of the Grape and Wine Industry in the Maule Region of Chile to Climate Change
Year of graduation: 2009
Meghan McKenna (MA)
Thesis title: Youth-led research: assessing the vulnerability of Inuit youth in Arctic Bay to social and environmental change
Year of graduation: 2008
Robert McLeman (PhD)
Dissertation title: Migration as a human adaptation to climate change
Year of graduation: 2005
Tristan Pearce (MA)
Thesis title: Vulnerability and adaptation to environmental change in Ulukhaktok
Year of graduation: 2006
Jennifer S. Porter-Gibson (MA)
Theis title: Assessing the Flood Vulnerability of Rural Communities in Huzhou, China
Year of graduation: 2000
Jennifer Pouliotte (MA)
Thesis title: Environmental change and dynamic vulnerability in Subarnabad Village, Bangladesh
Year of graduation: 2005
Erin Pratley (MA)
Thesis title: Changing Livelihoods, Changing Diets: The Implications of Changes in Diet for Food Security in Arctic Bay, Nunavut
Year of graduation: 2005
Karen Sutherland (MA)
Thesis title: Vulnerability to climate change and adaptive capacity in Samoa: the case of Salouafata Village
Year of graduation: 2004
Johanna Wandel (PhD)
Dissertation title: Values and motivations in alternative agri-food systems
Year of graduation: 2006
Lisa Westerhoff (MA)
Thesis title: The rains are disappointing us - vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in the Afram Plains, Ghana
Year of graduation: 2008
Gwen Young (MSc)
Thesis title: Community vulnerability to climate change in the Elqui River Basin, Chile
Year of graduation: 2006