People in the Wolfe Lab
Lab phone: (780) 492 5451 lab; fax: (780) 492 2030


Alexander P. Wolfe, BSc (Western Ontario), PhD (Queen's): awolfe@ualberta.ca


Colin A. Cooke, PhD in progress, BA Alberta (Anthropology), MSc Pittsburgh (Earth & Planetary Science): cacooke@ualberta.ca
Archaeometallurgy of the Andes; sediment metal records; prehispanic mercury use. For more details, Colin's web page is linked here


Ryan McKellar, PhD in progress (co-supervision with Dr. Brian Chatterton), BSc (Hons. Paleo.), MSc, Alberta: ryan_mckellar9@hotmail.com. Arthropod taphonomy, Ordovician phacopid trilobites, Cretaceous amber, fossil insects (especially parasitic micro-Hymenoptera), stable isotopes of modern and fossil conifer resins


Nathan Ballard, BSc Geology, Alberta: nballard@ualberta.ca
Internal phosphorus generation from lake sediments in Alberta prairie lakes; measuring and modeling porewater bioinorganic chemistry; organic matter diagenesis; eutrophic lake diatoms; First Nations environmental issues



RECENT LAB ALUMNI

Will O. Hobbs, PhD 2008 (BSc British Columbia, MSc Trinity Dublin). Presently postdoc at the University of St.Thomas, Minnesota; hobb3488@stthomas.edu; Paleolimnology of alpine and salmon lakes, salmon-derived nutrients, climate change, hot-spring diatoms, dissoluton kinetics, reconstructing the limnological consequences of Irish potato famines and other asundry stories.



Selma Losic (on loan from David Schindler's lab); Eutrophication trends in Alberta lakes slosic@ualberta.ca


Collin Quarrie, undergraduate assistant and piper in residence cquarrie@ualberta.ca


Amber Garrett, undergraduate assistant and spectroscopist in residence alg2@ualberta.ca


Erin Doxsey-Whitfield, BSc Alberta inisfail15@hotmail.com
Arctic and alpine lake diatoms


Dr. Neal Michelutti, once NSERC postdoctoral Research Fellow now resident redneck at Queen's; arctic diatoms, spectral reflectance, michelut@biology.queensu.ca

Rod Hazewinkel, MSc, paleolimnology of lakes in the Alberta oilsands airshed; now Alberta Environment: roderick.hazewinkel@gov.ab.ca

Wil Shulba, Lab research assistant, whereabouts uncertain, but likely somewhere in BC


clockwise from top left: arctic grayling, Brachysira arctoborealis, bull trout, and Huskie, the world's largest esocid (lives in Kenora)


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