Current Research Projects


  • Using soil arthropod assemblages to enhance land capability assessments of reclaimed oil sand soils in northern Alberta.
    Dr. Battigelli has been awarded an Industrial Associateship from Alberta Ingenuity to work with Paragon Soil & Environmental on this new project.
  • Identification of Pseuodoscorpion species associated with subcortical forest beetles.
    K.J.K Gandhi, D.W. Gilmore, and S.J. Seybold.
    University of Minnesota and USDA-Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station
  • Examination of soil arthropod fauna in potato fields of Prince Edward Island.
    Dr. C. Noronha
    Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Charlottetown, PE
  • 10 year sampling of LTSP sites in central BC.
    Dr. S. Berch
    BC Ministry of Forests Research Branch, Victoria, BC
  • Impact of biosolid application on soil fauna communities in grassland soils.
    Dr. K. Broersma
    Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Kamloops, BC.
  • Comparison of soil fauna communities between Native grasslands and Crested Wheat grass habitats.
    Dr. K. Broersma
    Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Kamloops, BC.
  • Identification of cave Collembola.
    Dr. J. Lewis
    Lewis & Associates LLC, Borden, IN.

Other Clients


  • Agriculture Canada, Kamloops Research Station
  • Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Program
  • British Columbia Ministry of Environment
  • British Columbia Ministry of Forests
  • Canadian Association of Social Workers
  • Diversitas Soil Ecology Research, Victoria, B.C.
  • Ecomark Ltd., Edmonton, AB.
  • Hudsonia Ltd., Annandale, NY
  • Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL.
  • The Nature Conservancy, Greenland, AR.
  • University of British Columbia - Faculty of Forestry
  • USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, OR.