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Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Dr. Chris Burn Celebrated by Royal Canadian Geographical Society

The Royal Canadian Geographical Society has awarded Chancellor's Professor Christopher Burn the Martin Bergmann Medal for Excellence in Arctic... More

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Announcements about recent work at the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre by Professor D. R. Fraser Taylor

Professor D. R. Fraser Taylor is pleased to share this update on recent work with colleagues. Please do not hesitate to contact us should you wish to discuss further (FraserTaylor@Cunet.Carleton.Ca or rvthumbadoo@gcrc.carleton.ca). Note also our updated website: https://gcrc.carleton.ca Thank you. Presentations Taylor, D. R. F. “Key Issues in... More

Monday, November 7, 2022

Climate Research Close to Home: Carleton faculty and students study the carbon cycle at Ottawa’s Mer Bleue bog

The Mer Bleue Bog, a conservation area in Ottawa’s east end greenbelt, is a popular destination for people who want to immerse themselves in birdsong and natural... More

Monday, October 31, 2022

Richard Littlemore of The Globe & Mail, in “The catastrophic threat of thawing permafrost hangs over all of us” highlights the important research of three Carleton geographers, Drs. Chris Burn, Stephan Gruber and Steve Kokelj

Professors Chris Burn and Stephan Gruber (Geography and Environmental Studies) are featured in a recent Globe and Mail article about permafrost. The article discusses how in late August, the foremost permafrost experts in the country gathered with an unprecedented contingent of First Nations delegates for the North Yukon Permafrost... More

Thursday, October 27, 2022

Marylynn Steckley Receives Prestigious OCUFA Teaching Award

Marylynn Steckley (cross-appointed to the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies) has been named one of two recipients of the 2022 Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Teaching Awards – the highest honour an educator can receive in the... More

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Congratulations to our graduate students who successfully defended their theses this Fall semester

Iain Storosko, MA, "Participatory plant breeding in Canada: The political ecology if participatory research networks for organic agriculture" Morgan Nordstrom, MA, "Quantifying Willingness-to-Pay for Complete Streets" Alex Jardine, MSc, "Pinnipeds in Artic Canada show no evidence of retained microplastic pollution" Vanessa Capy, MSc, "The... More

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Quang Ngo has been helping students and professors on a long list of projects for more than 20 years

Quang Ngo has been helping students and professors on a long list of projects for more than 20 years: augers for extracting ice core samples, weather monitoring tools, hip waders. “I like puzzles and trying to figure things out,” says Ngo, who also handles shipping and receiving and helps out at departmental picnics. “Professors... More

Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Meet Your Professors – Patricia Ballamingie

Professor Patricia Ballamingie from the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies discusses her research on food insecurity and how access to food should be a basic human... More

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Graduate student Trevor Andersen is the lead researcher on a project tracking wind speeds along Dempster Highway’s ‘Hurricane Alley’

'Trucks travelling along the highway they can be blown completely off the road,' researcher... More

Monday, September 26, 2022

Sneha Sumanth, PhD Student Wins Prestigious Fulbright Award

Sneha Sumanth has won a 2022-2023 Fulbright Student Award. A PhD student in Geography, this award has given Sumanth financial support to be able to live and study at the City University of New York (CUNY) for a nine-month academic year. Fulbright awards are given to students enrolled in a graduate program at a Canadian... More

Monday, August 29, 2022

Professor Fraser Taylor and Romola Thumbadoo are pleased to announce the publication of the Book Reprint of the MDPI ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information Special Issue “Mapping Indigenous Knowledge in the Digital Age”

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Friday, July 22, 2022

“This Neighborhood is Changing, Who is Changing For? Urban Development and the Transformation of Centretown West”

Associate Professor David Hugill, Graduate Students Sneha Sumanth, and Monika Imeri are pleased to share their report in collaboration with Somerset West Community Housing Center. The report is titled “This Neighborhood is Changing, Who is Changing For? Urban Development and the Transformation of Centretown... More

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