User:Atower123/George Arhonditsis

George Arhonditsis is a Professor and Department Chair at the University of Toronto. He specializes in marine/aquatic biogeochemistry.

Background and Education

George Arhonditsis received his BSc and MSc from the Agricultural University of Athens in Greece. He then went on to the University of the Aegean in Greece, where he received his PhD. Arhonditsis currently serves as both a Department Chair and Graduate Chair in the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He currently teaches a number of classes, including Fundamentals of Ecological Modelling and Quantitative Environmental Analysis. Arhonditsis also conducts research at the Ecological Modelling Lab at the University of Toronto Scarborough.

Research

Arhonditsis has a broad array of research interests. Currently, they include aquatic biogeochemical modelling and plankton ecology. Moreover, he focuses on Bayesian inference and fish contamination. Furthermore, he has conducted research in the areas of watershed science and extreme meteorological events. Specifically, his research looks at developing new modelling techniques to look at ecological patterns in watersheds and to aid in the process of environmental management. He has also developed a number of mechanistic and statistical models to aid in his efforts. Arhonditsis also works to quantify land-sea interactions, identify climate change effects on aquatic ecosystems, and study food web dynamics. He also works on modelling the disinfection by-products found in water treatment plants. Finally, his work involves aquatic ecosystem responses to climate variability and modelling these processes.

Awards


 * Elsevier Best Paper Award 2012: International Great Lakes Association
 * Elsevier Best Paper Award 2014: International Great Lakes Association
 * Ontario Early Researcher Award 2009
 * Environmental Science and Technology: Excellence in Review Award 2009

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