Marnie Branfireun is an Instructor in the Centre for Environment
and Sustainability at Western University in London, Ontario. She teaches in
both the Undergraduate Environmental Science Program and the Masters in
Environment and Sustainability Program. Her BSc (University of Manitoba)
focused on aquatic ecology, during which she worked for the Department of
Fisheries and Oceans monitoring benthic organisms in Manitoba rivers and at
the Experimental Lakes Area. Her MSc (McGill University) was on mercury
cycling and plant decomposition in boreal peatlands. As an ecologist, she
has been engaged in environmental education, conservation, restoration, and
monitoring for over 20 years.