Skip to main content

Unit 3: Investigating Environmental Issues

Dominique Poulin headshot

Dominique Poulin

Career Profiles

Mission Scientist

I am in charge of a mission whose goal is to acquire data from space, to monitor water quality in coastal areas and inland waters (e.g. algae).
Christelle Fournier

Christelle Fournier

Career Profiles

Permaculture guide, Founder of the company Fertiles

I offer consulting services to organizations, municipalities, indigenous communities, to support them in their eco-citizen projects related to food security.
Greg Flato

Greg Flato

Career Profiles

Director of Climate Change Research Division

I oversee a broad climate research program in ECCC, and I helped create global climate models to help us understand how and why the climate has changed.
portrait de Sarah Ellis

Sarah Ellis (she/her)

Career Profiles

Senior Scientist

I research and develop new technologies which help fight climate change.
portrait de Sarah Elliott-Le Dreff

Sarah Elliott-Le Dreff (she/her)

Career Profiles

Senior Manager, Project Controls

I lead a team that provides cost, schedule, risk, and reporting services to the Darlington New Nuclear Project, which will build Canada's first grid scale Small Modular Reactor.
Hand holding petri dish with bacteria

Colouring Clothing with Bacteria

Backgrounders

Learn about using bacteria to colour clothing.

Peat bog in northern Alberta

Peat Bogs and the Ring of Fire

Backgrounders

Learn about peat bogs, the threats they face and how you can help.

PET-ase bacteria

Plastic-Eating Bacteria: Nature's Recyclers

Backgrounders

Learn how bacteria can help solve the world’s plastic problem.

portrait de Sarah Eaton

Sarah Jane Eaton

Career Profiles

Director

I lead a team that is responsible for licensing small modular reactors.
portrait de Chris Murray

Chris Murray

Career Profiles

Associate Professor (Physics)

I teach undergraduate physics and conduct research in biopolymers and environmental technology.
portrait de Rob Arsenault

Rob Arsenault

Career Profiles

Environmental Enforcement Officer

I enforce laws that protect the environment, humans, fish and wildlife.
Pamela Power

Pamela Power (she/her)

Career Profiles

Water Resources Specialist

I provide technical review of projects that may affect water resources to ensure your community’s rights and interests are being considered and protected.
Jonas Goldman

Jonas Goldman

Career Profiles

Trade and Climate Change Policy Analysis

I research various subjects (technology, economics, politics) to inform the making of climate policy.
Andrea Brack

Andrea Brack

Career Profiles

Environmental and Regulatory Team Coordinator

I lead a team of environmental professionals at a large petrochemical manufacturing facility.
portrait de Tristan Lecompte

Tristan Lecompte

Career Profiles

Environmental Program Officer

I interpret and communicate pollution data collected by the National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI).