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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

FASS Global South Graduate Scholarship

The FASS Global South Graduate Scholarship (GSGS) was set up last year as part of Professor Mike Brklacich’s formal retirement after a 28-year career with DGES. The establishment of the FASS GSGS is in celebration of Mike’s many (& continued) contributions to DGES, to Carleton & to the international development community. Thanks to the... More

Monday, November 13, 2023

Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Professor D.R. Fraser Taylor is now an Officer of the Order of Canada

As a trailblazer in cybercartography & digital atlases, Dr. Taylor is a leading figure in... More

Monday, October 30, 2023

Dr. Paul B. Williams gave a talk on “How diseases have changed the world in which we live”

On October 27th, Dr. Paul B. Williams gave a talk at the Later Life Learning Series in... More

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Congratulations DGES Faculty Dipto Sarkar and Koreen Millard on receipt of awards from The Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund (CFI JELF)

The Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund (CFI JELF) helps institutions acquire the tools that enable the innovative work of leading researchers. Congratulations to the following FASS researchers who recently received CFI JELF... More

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

The Glebe as a Walkable Neighbourhood

Students have been out researching "The Glebe as a Walkable Neighbourhood" as part of the non-residential honours field course. In this course students are "involved in three key tasks: mapping the Glebe; calculating the Pedsheds within the Glebe around key features or services; and then examining the day-to-day practices of Glebe residents to... More

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Meera Karunananthan, DGES faculty member, featured in a new documentary series on water

Meera Karunananthan, DGES faculty member, was interviewed for a new documentary on the "race for blue gold". Meera's research is on the issue of privatization of water in rural Senegal. Her research with communities and organizations in Senegal will be featured in episode 2. Read more about Meera's research and this documentary.... More

Thursday, June 22, 2023

Convocation Spring 2023: Master’s Student Creates Prototype Weather GIS for Inuit Hunters

Julia Conzon didn’t intend to pursue a graduate degree. But when she saw a gap between her work in geographic information systems (GIS) with the federal government and engaging with communities, she found a bridge through an Indigenous community request to Carleton’s department of Geography and Environmental... More

Thursday, June 8, 2023

Capillary Critical Geography Network Hosts Inaugural Conference

Just a stone’s throw away from where the scenic Rideau Canal meets the thundering Ottawa River, members of the Capillary Critical Geography Network gathered at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre on May 25-26, 2023, to talk about climate knowledge, gentrification, migration and... More

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Congratulations to our graduate students who recently successfully defended their theses

Amee Lunger (MSc), "Evaluating Multifrequency SAR for Crop Classification in Saskatchewan, Canada and Georgia, USA" Emilie Stewart-Jones (MSc), "Modelling surface offsets in rock walls of western Canada" Stephanie Lonz (MA), "The Pandemic Riskscape in the Tourism Community of Canmore, Alberta during the COVID-19... More

Friday, May 26, 2023

Graduate student Samantha Schultz’s first-author paper was chosen as the May 2023 cover for the journal Hydrology

Samantha Schultz's is currently completing Year 2 of a MSc in Geography (Specialization in Data Science) at Carleton... More

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Congratulations Chancellor’s Professor Chris Burn on receipt of the 2023 CAG Award for Scholarly Distinction in Geography

The substance of Dr. Burn’s research is in the field of geocryology: the study of frozen rock, soils and ground; the origin, historical development, and conditions of existence of frozen strata in the Earth’s crust and processes and phenomena that occur in freezing, frozen and thawing ground. Russia, Canada and the USA are the... More

Monday, May 8, 2023

Chancellor’s Professor Chris Burn recently spoke with Matt Galloway on The Current

Chancellor's Professor Chris Burn recently spoke with Matt Galloway on The Current about how the invasion of Ukraine has jeopardized scientific research in Russia’s Arctic territory. Listen... More

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