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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

Monday, May 1, 2023

Congratulations MSc candidate Rae Landriau who is this year’s George Hobson Memorial Award (Physical Sciences) recipient

Rae Landriau is a MSc. student studying the egress of contaminants from drilling waste disposal sites in the Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories, with supervision from Dr. Chris Burn. Rae's work is in collaboration with the Geological Survey of the Northwest Territories (Tim Ensom), the Inuvialuit Land Administration (Charles Klengenberg) and... More

Thursday, April 20, 2023

NSERC Invests $1.65M in Climate Change Research at Carleton

Through this funding from NSERC’s Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) program, Stephan Gruber, Canada Research Chair in Climate Change Impacts/Adaptation in Northern Canada at Carleton, and a team of researchers are addressing this threat to Arctic communities by leading a project aimed at training tomorrow’s leaders in... More

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Geography Postdoctoral Fellow Interviewed on CBC Radio

Branaavan Sivarajah, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies working with Professor Jesse Vermaire, was a recent guest on the CBC Radio show Shift with Vanessa Vander Valk. Sivarajah spoke about his research on the presence of microplastics in biosolids – i.e. organic matter recycled from wastewater –... More

Friday, March 31, 2023

Congratulations Julia Conzon who successfully defended her MSc thesis in Geography with a Specialization in Data Science

Congratulations Julia Conzon who successfully defended her MSc thesis in Geography with a Specialization in Data Science on Friday March 31st, 2023. Julia’s thesis is titled: "Towards Co-Production of a Geographic Information System to Support Mobilizing Inuit Knowledge for Community-Led Land-Based and Guardian Programs: A Case with Clyde River... More

Friday, February 24, 2023

Congratulations Natalie Pressburger, Departmental Administrator, and Erin Johnston, Graduate Administrator on your nominations for Individual Service Excellence Awards!

Natalie was nominated by several of her colleagues and Erin was nominated by someone who requested to remain anonymous. Below are some of the thoughts shared by those who nominated them. "Natalie embodies and supports all of the Carleton Service Excellence standards and more. She is thoughtful, works tirelessly, takes care of critically important... More

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