2021 SETAC PNC - Laurentian SETAC Joint Annual Meeting

Dr. Krantzberg is Professor of Engineering and Public Policy in the Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology at McMaster University offering Canada’s first Master’s Degree in Engineering and Public Policy. Gail completed her M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in environmental science and freshwaters. She worked for the Ontario Ministry of Environment from 1988 to 2001, as Coordinator of Great Lakes Programs, and Senior Policy Advisor on Great Lakes. In her tenure there she was intensely engaged in binational Great Lakes science and policy venues, including direct interactions with the Great Lakes Commission, the Great Lakes Observing system, president of the International Association of Great Lakes Research, Board Member of the Canadian Water Foundation and Georgian Bay Forever, member of the International Joint Commission’s Water Quality Board, Sediment Priority Action Committee, Indicators Implementation Task Force, and Council of Great Lakes Research Managers. Dr. Krantzberg was the Director of the Great Lakes Regional Office of the International Joint Commission from 2001 to 2005. In 2007 she was appointed as an adjunct faculty member of the United Nations University Institute for Water and Environmental Health and participated in the twinning of the Laurentian and African Great Lakes (principally Lake Victoria). She has edited and co-authored 7 books and more than 160 scientific and policy articles on issues pertaining to ecosystem quality and sustainability and is a frequent speaker to media and the public. When not on the job, she enjoys family, photography, gardening and peace in the woods.

Chris McLaughlin has worked in the environmental sector since 1990 as an educator, author, researcher, consultant and chief executive. Chris is currently the executive director of the Bay Area Restoration Council, a non-profit corporation representing the public interest in the recovery of Hamilton Harbour. Chris holds a PhD from McMaster University for a study of Great Lakes policy and governance and an adjunct faculty appointment in its School of Geography & Earth Sciences, and also serves on the International Joint Commission’s Great Lakes Water Quality Board and the Canadian Environmental Law Association’s Healthy Great Lakes Advisory Committee.