Appointments, Awards, Committees & Boards

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Awards
2021    Outstanding Contribution Award, Canadian Ecotoxicity Workshop (career award)
2021    Frank H. Rigler Award, Society of Canadian Limnologists
2018    Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Fellow
2017    Recipharm International Environmental Award
2015    Tier 1 Canada Research Chair
2012    NSERC Discovery Accelerator Award
2010    Tier 2 Canada Research Chair renewal
2009    Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry’s Presidential Citation for Exemplary Service
2007    J.C. Stevenson Memorial Lecture, Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research
2004    Tier 2 Canada Research Chair
2002    Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal
2002    Doan Publication Award, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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Adjunct Faculty Positions & Visiting Professorships
  • Adjunct Professor, Biology Department, University of Waterloo                                                      2018-21
  • Associate Member, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster            2018-21
  • Adjunct Professor, United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health      2017-21
  • Adjunct Professor, University of New Brunswick                                                                               2017-22
  • Visiting Professor, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden and Swetox, Sodertalje, Sweden                        2015
  • Visiting Professor, National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, Hamilton, New Zealand    2012
  • Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Biology, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI       2008-11
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB                      2000-06

Editorial Boards
  • 2020-23          Associate Editor, Environmental Reviews
  • 2015-20          Associate Editor, Freshwater Science specialty section, Frontiers in Environmental Science 
  • 2015-18          Editorial Board Member (Subject Editor), FACETS
  • 2015-pres       Editor, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
  • 2009-pres       Guest Editor, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (13 times)
  • 2006-08           Guest Co-editor, Environmental Pollution special issue entitled “Mercury Cycling and Bioaccumulation in the Environment”
  • ​2005-13           Editorial Assistant, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (3 terms) 
  • 1999-02           Editorial Board Member, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
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​Provincial committees:
  • ​Alberta Environment and Parks Science Advisory Panel, 2020-2022; 2022-24
  • Premier-appointed Member of the Science Advisory Committee of the New Brunswick Energy Institute, 2013-2019.

National committees and boards:
  • Canadian Water Network's Expert Advisory Panel for Canada’s Needs and Opportunities to Address Contaminants in Wastewater, 2017-18.
  • Chair of Science Directors Board and Member of Executive, Canadian Rivers Institute, 2012-2015; Treasurer, Executive Committee, and Management Board Member, 2004 - 2010.
  • IISD Experimental Lakes Area Research Advisory Board, 2015-present.
  • NSERC’s 1503 Evolution and Ecology Grant Selection Committee, Member 2008 – 2011; Co-chair 2010-11; Group Chair and Member of Committee on Discovery Research, 2015-19.
  • NSERC's Strategic Network Selection Committee, 2014-2017.
  • NSERC's Vanier Scholarship Selection Committee, 2014-2018.
  • Co-chair of the Aquatic Toxicity Workshop, October 2007, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Apr 06 – Jan 08; Board member, Aquatic Toxicity Workshop, 2005 – 2008.


International committees and boards:
  • International Joint Commission Science Advisory Board, Science Priority Committee Member, 2019-22; 2022-25
  • International Joint Commission Early Warning Systems Work Group Member, 2021-22
  • International Joint Commission Fish Consumption Advisory Work Group Member, 2021-23         
  • International Joint Commission Multiple Stressors Work Group Member, 2018-19 
  • International Joint Commission Expert Panel Member to develop a monitoring program to assess ecosystem health in the Laurentian Great Lakes, 2011.
  • International Advisory Board Member, Oslo University Anthrotox Project, Norway, 2018-20
  • International Science Panel Member for the review of Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany, Apr 2018
  • United Nations Environment Programme/World Health Organization Committee Member reviewing the state of the science on environmental endocrine disruptors, 2010 - 2013.
  • Global Environment Facility Lakes Working Group Member for the project ‘Enhancing the use of Science of International Waters projects to improve project results’, United Nations Environment Programme, 2010–2011.
  • Local Organizing Committee Member for the 10th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant conference, Halifax, NS (24-29 Jul 2011), 2009 – 2011.
  • Science Communication Fellow, Environmental Health News, U.S., 2009.
  • U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board Ecological Processes and Effects Committee to review white paper on methodology for deriving aquatic life water quality criteria for emerging contaminants. 2008.
  • Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry:
    • Program Committee member, Annual North American meeting, Toronto, Nov 2019, 2018-19.
    • Elected member of the North American Board of Directors, 3 year term, 2006 – 2009.
    • Executive Committee, 2008 and 2009.
    • Endowment Fund Board of Trustees, 2010 – present.
    • Organizing Committee for annual meeting in Montreal, 2006 and Toronto, 2019
    • World Council Science Committee, 2003 - 2006.
    • Co-chair of Steering Committee for Global Advisory Group on Endocrine Disrupter Testing & Risk Assessment, 2012 - 2017.
    • Co-chair of Global Publications Advisory Committee, 2014-present.
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