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Dr. Ian Spooner is a Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at Acadia University, where he has worked for 31 years. His research focuses on environmental change, surface water-groundwater interactions, and contamination assessment across eastern Canada.
- Ph.D. in Geoscience (University of Calgary, 1994)
- M.Sc. in Geology (Queen's University, 1988)
- B.Sc. (Honours) in Geology (Queen's University, 1984)
His scholarly work spans three decades, with recent publications highlighting mercury contamination in seabird soils, sediment dewatering techniques, and paleolimnological tools for pollution assessment. He has developed tidypaleo, an R package for visualizing environmental archives.
Key research trends include industrial pollution impacts on coastal ecosystems, long-term contamination records in lake sediments, and geological responses to climate change. His work bridges field studies with computational methods for environmental data analysis.
- Distinguished Service Award (Atlantic Geoscience Society)
- 2020 Acadia Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching
- 2022 Donald Stanley Award (Canadian Society for Civil Engineering)
As Manager of the Morton Centre and coordinator of the M.Sc. Applied Geomatics program, he leads collaborative projects in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and British Columbia. Funding sources include NSERC grants and industry partnerships.
