Network Structure, Administrative & Specialist Teams
Network Administration, Specialists & Personnel
- Yannick Huot – Director
- Catherine Brown – Manager
- Gabriel Diab – Field and Laboratory Coordinator
- Maxime Fradette – Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialist
- Jelena Juric – Database Specialist & Field Coordination Team
- Marie-Pierre Varin – Field Coordinator
Representatives of the Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP) Committee
- Cindy Paquette, PhD candidate
- Lisa Lahens, PhD candidate
Board of Directors
Our Board of Directors ensures that all partners and stakeholders are represented and oversees the Network’s activities.
- Richard Butts (Chair) – Cross Sectoral Strategic Direction / Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (retired)
- Beatrix Beisner – Université du Québec à Montréal
- Vincent Aimez – Vice-President Partnerships and Knowledge Transfer, Université de Sherbrooke
- Nicole Armstrong – Manitoba Sustainable Development / Water Stewardship and Biodiversity Division
- Kevin Cash – Environment and Climate Change Canada
- John Downing – University of Minnesota Duluth
- Yannick Huot – Université de Sherbrooke
- Ralph Pentland – Forum for Leadership on Water; Canadian Water Issues Council, University of Toronto
- Verena Tunnicliffe – University of Victoria
- Ainsley McFarlane (non-voting) – NSERC Manager
- Catherine Brown (non-voting) – Université de Sherbrooke
Scientific Committee
Our Scientific Committee includes senior researchers, partner researchers and international advisors. They help to coordinate and oversee our multidisciplinary research projects.
- John Downing (Chair) – University of Minnesota Duluth
- Stéphanie Brazeau – Public Health Agency of Canada
- Catherine Brown (non-voting) – Université de Sherbrooke
- Paul del Giorgio – Université du Québec à Montréal
- Marie-Josée Fortin – University of Toronto
- Irene Gregory-Eaves – McGill University
- Daniel Hering – Universität Duisburg-Essen
- Yannick Huot – Université de Sherbrooke
- Andrew Lang – Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Amina Pollard – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Jim Rusak – Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change
