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Past Degree: BScH-Biology

Project: Rhizodegradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contamination Using Native Plants, Fungi, and Bacteria

Supervisors: Dr. Barbara Zeeb and Dr. Allison Rutter

Past degree(s): Master of Science in Regulatory Governance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India (2020)

• Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics, Yeshwantrao Chavan College of Engineering, (RTMNU), Nagpur, India  (2013)

Project/Thesis: THE PESTICIDE PARADOX IN MAHARASHTRA: FARMER PRACTICES, PESTICIDE USAGE AND KNOWLEDGE POLITICS IN CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE

Supervisor: Dr. Marcus Taylor, Dr. Kristen Lowitt, Dr. John Harriss (Professor Emeritus)

Past Degrees: Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Environmental Studies, Queen's University 2024 

Project: Futures of Care: Community Challenges to Extraction in South Africa and Canada 

Supervisors: Dr. Allison Goebel and Dr. Rebecca Hall

Past degree(s): MSc in Geography (University of Calgary), MSc and BSc in Environmental Science (Khulna University)

Project/Thesis: Carbon dynamics and machine learning

Supervisor: Dr. Christian Seiler

Past degrees: Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Geography, at Memorial University of Newfoundland

Thesis Research: Environmental Drivers and Conservation of Range-Edge Tree Species in the Temperate-Boreal Forest Transition Zone

Supervisor: Dr. Ryan Danby

Past degrees:  BA Anthropology, University of Victoria

Thesis Research: Exploring Food Sovereignty and the Importance of Place

Supervisor: Dr. Kristen Lowitt

Past degrees:  BSc- Biology, MES- Environmental Science both from the University of Guelph

Thesis Research: How effective are incentive-based policies in promoting the adoption of renewable energy sources in Canada?

Supervisor: Dr. Warren Mabee

Academic Training

• PDF, Royal Military College of Canada (Chemical Engineering and Chemistry)
• PhD, ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ (Environmental Studies)
• B.Sc, University of Waterloo (Honours Biomedical Sciences)

Research Interests

• Effects assessment of anthropogenic contaminants on terrestrial and aquatic organisms through the use of conventional and novel methods
• Investigation of novel methods to remediate contaminated sites
• Exploration of links between toxic effects at the molecular and individual level to help develop high-throughput toxicity test methods

Recent Publications

Pang A, Nicol AM, Rutter A, Zeeb B (2023a) Improved methods for quantifying soil invertebrates during ecotoxicological tests: Chill comas and anesthetics. Heliyon 9:e12850.

Pang A, Rutter A, Bordenave S, et al (2022) Assessment of the toxicity of weathered petroleum hydrocarbon impacted soils to native plants from a site in the Canadian Subarctic. Ecotoxicology 31:1287–1298.

Pang A, Rutter A, Gainer A, et al (2023b) Assessment of heavily weathered petroleum hydrocarbon-impacted soils to native soil invertebrates from a Canadian subarctic site. J Soils Sediments 23:2096–2105.

Pang A, Rutter A, Haack E, Zeeb B (2023c) Transcriptome analysis of a springtail, Folsomia candida, reveals energy constraint and oxidative stress during petroleum hydrocarbon exposure. Chemosphere 342:140185.

Past Degrees: BAH (English Literatures and Language Major, Philosophy Minor) MA (English Literatures and Language); ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´

Research Area(s): Ferality, Invasive Species, Environmental Policy and the Ecological Imagination

Supervisory: Dr. Mick Smith