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Joshua Thienpont is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Science Program at York University. He holds a PhD in Biology from Queen’s University, where he also completed his Bachelor of Science with Honours in Biology. His research primarily focuses on the impact of landscape environmental changes on aquatic ecosystem processes, particularly in the context of climate warming and permafrost thaw. Thienpont's work employs a combination of modern aquatic sampling methods and paleolimnological techniques to reconstruct past environments and assess ecological changes in response to physical disturbances. He is involved in several research projects examining the effects of permafrost melt on lake ecosystems in Canada’s Northwest Territories and the cumulative impacts of disturbances in Northern Ontario and the Great Lakes region. His publications include studies on paleotoxicology, chromophoric dissolved organic carbon, and the ecological impacts of invasive species, contributing to a deeper understanding of freshwater ecosystem dynamics in changing environments.
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