Dr. Nathan Basiliko, President Elect

Nathan Basiliko is a faculty member and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Environmental Microbiology at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. His group studies how forest and wetland soil biota respond to resource management, climate change, and other stressors in the Great Lakes St. Lawrence (northern temperate), boreal, and subarctic regions, and more recently they have focussed in mining and sediment environments as well. He completed his bachelors in Natural Resources at Cornell University (Ithaca, USA), doctorate in Physical Geography at McGill University, and PDF in Forest Sciences at the University of British Columbia (Joe Yavitt, Tim Moore, and Sue Grayston were his supervisors and mentors). He was a faculty member in Geography at the University of Toronto Mississauga prior to joining Laurentian in 2013. He has been active in the Canadian Society of Soil Science since 2002 and has served as Eastern Councillor in the past and as an Associate Editor for the Canadian Journal of Soil Science since 2013. He is an active collaborator in the society’s Education sub-committee, and has recently begun a collaborative project, “Excavating Canadian Soil Science History”, led by a historical geographer colleague at Nipissing University.