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Professor Peter Leavitt

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Prof Peter Leavitt

Professor Peter Leavitt

School of Biological Sciences

Professor Leavitt’s research focuses a number of themes including;

Coupled Human-Natural Systems; Pathways of energy and mass transfer; Human impacts on environment; Climate change and social response; Long-term ecological research (LTER); Regulation of ecosystem structure and function; Variation as a system property; Social controls of biophysical environments; Paleolimnology and Paleoecology; Global cycles of major elements (C, N, P); Pollution ecology; Urbanization; Socio-economic trade-offs with ecosystem services; Centennial-scale effects of agricultural development; Regulation of primary production; Limnology and Aquatic Ecology; Environmental change; Disturbance; Regulation of food-web structure; Water.

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  • P.Leavitt@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 4961
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Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the field of

  • Effects of agricultural practices and urbanization on water quality in freshwater and coastal ecosystems.

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Global Warming Is Accelerating CO2 and Methane Emissions

  • Water Watcher: Peter Leavitt is keeping an eye on Sask. lakes and rivers

  • Prestigious Honour: Two University of Regina scholars named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada

  • Water's role in climate change, resource extraction examined


Research students

PhD Title Analysis of Lakewater Isotopes in the Northern Great Plains: Insights from Long-term Monitoring and Spatial Surveys
Country Canada
   
PhD Title  Seasonal Impacts and Regulation of Nitrogen Pollution In the Northern Great Plains: Insights from Microcosm, Mesocosm and Mensurative Scale Studies
Country  Canada
   
PhD Title  Quantifying Human and Ecological Dimensions to Advance Holistic Understanding of Prairie Lake Ecosystems
Country  Canada

 


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