She obtained her PhD from Lehigh University, and has been faculty at Windsor since 2001, after being awarded a University Faculty Award from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. Her main interest is the Earth’s magnetic field, and her research in the environment focusses on the use of iron and iron minerals as a measure of soil-forming processes, erosion of beach sediments, ecological assessment, and mining pollution distributions. After living in Essex County for many years, she has become fascinated by the interplay between the county’s soil, climate and wine!