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Friday, February 10, 2017
Please join us on Friday, February 17 from 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM Loeb A220 for the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies bi-weekly Founders Seminar Series. All welcome! The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies would like to announce that our Founders Seminar guest speaker for Feb. 17th is Dr. Steven Alexander. Dr.... More
Thursday, January 5, 2017
Beginning in Fall 2017, Carleton University will be offering a groundbreaking interdisciplinary graduate program in Northern Studies. Northern Studies at Carleton University will be the first ever interdisciplinary program at the Master level to present a combined focus on the social, political, and physical environments of northern Canada. This... More
Friday, October 28, 2016
The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies is hosting 5 alumni to speak to students and staff about their paths to career success. This Alumni Careers Event is meant to highlight what some of our successful graduates have moved on to! Since there is rarely a linear path from what is studied to what... More
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Concerns over global climate change have been mounting for roughly three decades and 2015 was framed as a watershed year in our understanding of the severity of the issue and, perhaps more importantly, in our search for strategies to reduce the impacts of human activities on earth system processes. Two important milestones from 2015 in the... More
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
As Canada takes new steps to address global warming, climate change is once again a frequent subject of conversation across the country. Not a day goes by, it seems, without another news story about its impacts. Much attention focuses on the potential release of organic carbon as frozen ground melts. In Canada, where a... More
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
On the Sunday of the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, I pulled on my increasingly neglected research uniform, headed south on NY Interstate 81 to Cornell University and then spent three days at the 2nd Global Food Security conference. It was an opportunity to re-engage with a community that had been at the centre of my... More
Monday, November 23, 2015
Jeremy Schmidt receives his Talent Award. (photo by Martin Lipman) Carleton University’s Jeremy Schmidt, assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, has been awarded the 2015 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Talent Award for his work on water management, ethics and governance of natural... More
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Dr. D. R. Fraser Taylor is the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre’s Director. The Kitikmeot Heritage Society in cooperation with Carleton’s Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre is developing a cybercartographic atlas of the Fifth Thule Expedition led by Knud Rasmussen between 1921 and 1924. Although not well known to many... More
Friday, October 9, 2015
Migration and Diaspora Studies steering committee. From left to right: Christopher Worswick, James Milner, Ming Tiampo, Daniel McNeil, Catherine Khordoc, Sarah Casteel, Howard Duncan, Jeff Sahadeo, and Nimal Rajapakse (Vice-President Research and International). Photo credit: Justin Tang. This past week, members of the Migration and Diaspora... More
Monday, October 5, 2015
A year ago, in October 2014, a small interdisciplinary group of humanities and social science scholars at Carleton met to discuss climate change. We wanted to consider what scholars in a range of disciplines, many of which were not the traditional disciplines of climate change research or action, could do to address climate change... More
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Professor Anders Levermann Carleton University and the German Embassy Present: “Evolving understanding of climate change and sea level rise and its perception by policy makers” by Professor Anders Levermann Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 11:00 am –1:00 pm 5110 Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Building Snacks will follow the lecture and... More
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies is pleased to congratulate our graduate students on being awarded with numerous scholarships and bursaries…Read more The post Congratulations To Department of Geography and Environmental Studies Graduate Students! appeared first on Faculty of Arts and Social... More
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