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Monday, May 25, 2020

Congratulations Erin Turnbull on recipient of the Canadian Association of Geographers Undergraduate Award for 2020 from Carleton University

Erin Turnbull, 4th year BScH in the Earth Sci and Physical Geography Combined Major, has been nominated as the recipient of the Canadian Association of Geographers Undergraduate Award for 2020 from Carleton! Erin is a Dean’s Honour List student in the program stated above, and was nominated by the DGES undergraduate coordinators as an... More

Friday, May 22, 2020

Message to our UG Students from the Chair on behalf of all faculty and staff of Geography and Environmental Studies

Dear DGES students, Normally, this should be an exciting time. For our current students, winter semester exams are over, summer jobs typically would have been secured, and for returning students, in just a few months, you would be registering for another year at Carleton. For those of you entering fourth year, you would normally be looking... More

Thursday, May 14, 2020

COVID-19 and the future of North American borders – by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera and Victor Konrad

Victor Konrad teaches geography at Carleton University. He was president of the Association for Borderlands Studies. Currently he is co-director of the Borders in Globalization Project and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Borderlands... More

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Niloofar Alavi-Shoushtari, PhD graduate, was recently published in Remote Sensing

Niloofar Alavi-Shoushtari's research paper titled, "Evaluating the Relationships of Inter-Annual Farmland Vegetation Dynamics with Biodiversity Using Multi-Spatial and Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Data" has been published in Remote Sensing. "I completed my Bachelor degree in Environmental Studies in my country of origin, Iran. I moved to Canada... More

Thursday, May 7, 2020

NEW Late Summer Course Offering – North American Borders in Comparative Perspective

GEOGRAPHY 4024/5502, Late Summer, 2020 North American Borders in Comparative Perspective The COVID-19 pandemic has closed borders in North America except for essential travel and shipment. In the 21st century, borders between Canada and the United States, and Mexico and the United States, have emerged as dynamic interactive zones and politically... More

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

New 2020 summer course offering – Geographies of Europe GEOG 3025

Geographies of Europe course will be live-streamed. Virtual attendance at times/days listed is required. Tuesday and Thursday from 18:05 - 20:55 Taught by Dr. Tamara Kotar In this course we will examine the significance of Europe’s physical and cultural environments and how they are part of diverse, multiple and changing socio-political... More

Monday, May 4, 2020

Contract Instructor Opportunities Fall 2020 – Winter 2021. DGES invites applications from members of the CUPE 4600-2 bargaining unit and other interested persons to teach courses in geography, environmental studies, or geomatics, as a contract instructor.

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Monday, April 27, 2020

Congratulations Adjunct Research Professor Victor Konrad on your recent co-authoring book, “North American Borders in Comparative Perspective”

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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

As a project from Assistant Professor Sheryl-Ann Simpson’s environmental justice class, UG student Linzi Redekop wrote a fictional story on the non-fictional problem that is currently facing our city: urban sprawl

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Monday, April 20, 2020

Congratulations to DGES Faculty who were nominated by students as 2019-2020 Favourite Faculty!

Patricia Ballamingie (Geography and Enviromental Studies): When Professor Ballamingie teaches her lectures, it feels akin to a conversation, one spoken by a person who still remembers the hardship of being a student. With a sense of humor and a verity of stories she reminds us that it is perfectly fine to embarrass oneself because... More

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Art journaling drop-in sessions on the first and third Friday of every month from 2:00 to 4:00, starting May 1, 2020.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Congratulations Dr. Karen Hébert on receipt of a 2020 FASS Early Career Research Award and 2020 International Research Seed Grant!

Karen Hébert's research examines changing natural resource economies, environmental politics, and struggles over sustainability in the subarctic and circumpolar North.  An ethnographer by training, she works at the intersection of critical human geography, cultural anthropology, and political ecology, contributing to cross-disciplinary... More

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