Matt Teeter

Research Scientist & Business Manager,

Trent Water Quality Centre

Matt Teeter in Lab 2024 Sep 20240924_112125.jpg

Bio

Matt is a postdoctoral researcher, the business manager and research scientist specializing in light stable isotopes at Trent University's centralized mass spectrometry facility, the WQC. Much of his time is dedicated to maintaining the IRMS instruments at the WQC, but Matt is also currently working on a project related to using stable isotopes to understand the geographic origins of animal remains recovered from the Centre Block of Parliament in Ottawa. Outside of the lab, Matt enjoys golfing, cheering on his beloved Montreal Canadiens (les Habitants as he calls them), and spending time with his family including his wife Jenn, their son Max, and their bagel (half beagle half basset) Winston. Although Matt isn’t a frequent traveller, he enjoys visiting Prince Edward Island in the summer to see Jenn’s family. With so many new movies on the rise and a love for action/Sci-Fi films, Matt is most looking forward to Spaceballs 2, Avengers Doomsday, as well as new seasons of Hell’s Kitchen. Bio by Dawn Bari.

TEAL Publications

Guiry E, Beglane F, Carlin N, Orton D, Teeter M, Szpak P. 2025. Pigs, pannage, and the solstice: Isotopic insights from prehistoric feasting at Newgrange. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. doi: 10.1017/ppr.2025.10063. [DOWNLOAD .pdf]
Guiry E, Kennedy R, Orton D, Armitage P, Bratten J, Dagneau C, Dawdy S, deFrance S, Gaulton B, Givens D, Hall O, Kenyon K, Laberge An, Lavin M, Miller H, Minkoff MF, Niculescu T, Noel S, Pavao-Zuckerman B, Stricker L, Teeter M, Welker M, Wilkoski J, Szpak P, Buckley M. The ratting of North America: A 350-year retrospective on Rattus species compositions and competition. Science Advances 10, eadm6755. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adm6755. [DOWNLOAD .pdf]
Rey-Iglesia A, Pryor AJ, de Jager D, Wilson T, Teeter MA, Margaryan A, Khaskhanov R, Le Meillour L, Troché G, Welker F, Szpak P, Dudin AE, Lorenzen ED. 2024 Ancient biomolecular analysis of 39 mammoth individuals from Kostenki 11-Ia elucidates Upper Palaeolithic human resource use. Quaternary Environments and Humans 3, 100049. doi:10.1016/j.qeh.2024.100049 [DOWNLOAD .pdf]
Dolphin AE, Teeter MA, Szpak P, 2023. The role of status, diets, and mobility in understanding the impacts of urbanization in early medieval Bergen, Norway (St. Mary's Church): Insights from stable isotope analyses. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. doi: 10.1002/oa.3216. [DOWNLOAD .pdf]
Guiry E, Beglane F, Szpak P, McCormick F, Teeter MA, Cheung C, Richards MP, 2023. Changing human-cattle relationships in Ireland: a 6000-year isotopic perspective. Antiquity 97, 1436-1452. doi:10.15184/aqy.2023.163. [DOWNLOAD .pdf]