Research:Areas of Specialization
Ecohydrology, Contaminants, Mercury, Climate and Environmental Change, Wetland Restoration, Solute Transport
Research Interests
My research focuses how the interactions and feedbacks between ecohydrological, biogeochemical, and soil physical processes control the movement of water, nutrients, carbon, and contaminants in northern landscapes under a changing climate. I am particularly interested in how the structure of organic soils, like peat, govern water and contaminant flow. I am also pursing novel restoration techniques to accelerate peatland restoration and developing methods to restore heavily contaminated peatlands.
Current & Future Research
My research focuses on two parallel and complementary themes:
- Understanding how wetlands and landscape interfaces govern water quality using reactive transport
- Development of novel wetland restoration techniques to accelerate the return of ecohydrological functionality and carbon sequestration
I am actively recruiting graduate students for projects related to both research themes. If you are interested, please email me at colinmcc@nipissingu.ca.
Previous Research Chairs
Research:Areas of Specialization:
- Group Dynamics in Youth Sport
- Youth Development Through Sport & Physical Activity
Research Interests:
- Group dynamics in sport, exercise and physical education settings
- Positive youth development in sportSocial identity in sport
- Physical activity adherence among adolescents
- School-based physical activity interventions
- Team building
Current & Future Research:
- Measuring Youth Experience in Sport (Co-Investigator)
- Being a Good Teammate: Fostering Social Identity and Moral Development through Youth Sport Participation (Principal Investigator)
- CRC in Youth Development through Sport and Physical Activity (Principal Investigator)
- Establishment of the Nipissing University Youth Development through Sport and Physical Activity Laboratory (Principal Investigator)
- Transformational Leadership in Youth Sport: Fostering Youth Development and Long-Term Participation (Co-Investigator)
Research:Areas of Specialization:
Cultural and historical geography, critical geopolitics, environmental history, political ecology, geographies of science
Research Interests:
Networks of empire, science, and nature; imperial geopolitics; environmental histories of the British Empire; colonial afterlives of imperial knowledge; politics of biodiversity heritage
Current & Future Research:
Zoogeography and empire; militarization of the North Atlantic; environmental histories of the “Near North”; geopolitics of the Gulf Stream
Research:Areas of Specialization:
Catchment and hillslope hydrology, streamflow generation, stable isotope hydrology
Research Interests:
Streamflow generation, groundwater-surface water interactions, use of environmental tracers in hydrology, integration of modeling and data, interdisciplinary research.
Current & Future Research:
Use of stable water isotopes in the study of water cycling in Precambrian shield watersheds and lakes.Computer modeling of water quality and quantity for Shield watersheds.Watershed classification in Ontario’s Far NorthThe Lake Nipissing Bays Project: from headwaters to lake. A study of the influence of meteorological conditions, external and internal nutrient loading to water quality conditions to local bays.State of the Basin Report: Lake Nipissing Watershed
Click here to view April's CRC profile: Canada Research Chair in Watershed Analysis and Modeling
Research:Areas of Specialization:
Sociology of Education; Social Inequality; Sociology of Work; Quantitative Research Methods
Research Interests:
Postsecondary Educational Choices, Labour Market Outcomes, School-to-work Transitions, School Discipline Practices, Poverty, Student Achievement, Literacy and Skills, Cross-national Comparisons