Dr. Ryan Sorichetti is a Great Lakes Ecologist and Research Scientist for the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks where he leads Great Lakes and tributary water quality studies. His work is focused on nearshore water quality and explores shoreline areas undergoing changes, or with impairments, in water quality.
Ryan completed his Ph.D. in 2014 at Western University in aquatic sciences with a focus on trace metals (iron) limitation on cyanobacterial growth in lakes and has continued research interest in biogeochemical nutrient cycling, algal physiology and taxonomy, lake physical processes and climate change science.