Irena F. Creed is a Professor in the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences at the University of Toronto. She is a former Canada Research Chair in Watershed Sciences and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the American Geophysical Union. She graduated from the University of Toronto and received her B.Sc. (Zoology), M.Sc. (Botany, Environmental Science), and Ph.D. (Geography). She is an internationally renowned watershed and wetland ecosystem scientist. She has received numerous recognitions for her work, including the Royal Society of Canada’s Bancroft Award, an Honorary Doctorate of Agricultural Sciences at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, a Visiting Female Professorship at Umeå University in Sweden, and the distinguished Wallenberg Professorship from the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry. Her research interests include planetary health, climate change, watershed sciences, hydrology, biogeochemistry, ecology, terrestrial–aquatic linkages, forests, freshwater harmful algal blooms, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, iron, sustainability, ecosystem services, communities at risk, scenario planning, risk management, the science–policy interface.
Charles G. Trick received his B.Sc. (1975) in Microbiology from the University of Manitoba, his M.Sc. (1977) in Marine Biology from the Acadia University, and his Ph.D. (1982) in Oceanography from the University of British Columbia. After graduating, he worked at the University of California (1982–1985) and the University of Toronto (1985–1987). From 1989 to 1992, he was a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, and from 2000 to 2001, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of California. He joined the University of Western Ontario in 1987. He is now a Beryl Ivey Chair for Ecosystem Health and a Professor at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Department of Pathology at the Schulich School of Medicine, University of Western Ontario. He is also a member of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization, the Phycological Society of America, The Oceanography Society, the International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography.
