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Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Congratulations Dipto Sarkar on receipt of a 2022 Research Achievement Award

The Carleton University Research Achievement Awards are administered by the Office of the Vice-President (Research and International). The purpose of these awards is to recognize outstanding research achievements. The awards were established in 1989 to enhance the quality of research and to recognize research excellence. Assistant Professor Dipto... More

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Congratulations geomatics student Matthew Wierdsma recipient of a Summer Research Intern position

Matthew plans to research, "Air Quality Impacts of Increasing Smouldering and Flaming Combustion in Canada's Boreal Forest and Peatlands Using Available TROPOMI Search Engine... More

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Global Environmental Systems (GEOG 1010)

The main goal of this course is to introduce you to major concepts and terminology necessary to observe, interpret, and understand the physical environment around you and to situate these ideas in the context of real-world issues. The course introduces you to the study of meteorology, climatology, hydrology, geomorphology, biogeography, and soils.... More

Friday, April 22, 2022

Sustainability & Environment in the Global South (GEOG 3209)

How do Ontario teachers’ pensions impact access to water in Chile? Why are Indigenous communities challenging carbon markets touted as a solution to climate change?  What does a country’s debt have to do with natural resource management? These are some of the questions we will be discussing in this course as we study socio-environmental... More

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Alumnus Kent Jacobs Top Cited Author

Congratulations alumnus Kent Jacobs whose paper has been recognized as a top cited paper. The paper is titled OpenStreetMap quality assessment using unsupervised machine learning... More

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Carleton University and the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun Forge a Partnership

By Samphe Brulé Take the Klondike Highway from Whitehorse to Stewart Crossing, then head north-east at the Silver Trail Junction to arrive in Mayo, nestled at the confluence of the Stewart and Mayo Rivers in the central Yukon. Dr. Chris Burn, a physical geographer at Carleton University, began working in Mayo in 1982 and... More

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Patrols work, but community-based conservation needs a rethink, study led by Professor Dipto Sarkar shows

Professor Dipto Sarkar is the lead author of the article on which this article is based. Dipto has worked in Kibale National Park, Uganda for more than seven years. This study combines soci-economic, ecological, and patrolling data to understand the effectiveness of conservation measures implemented at Kibale. Patrols work, but community-based... More

Monday, March 21, 2022

Our newest faculty member Meera Karunananthan featured in an interview

Meera Karunananthan participated in an educational series the BBC did on international law. The BBC contacted Meera due to her involvement in a campaign to have the access to water and sanitation recognized as human rights at the UN. See Meera's involvement here: Water - International Law - Is a lack of water discriminatory?... More

Thursday, March 3, 2022

Congratulations Mike Palmer on defending your PhD thesis in Geography

Congratulations to Mike Palmer, who successfully defended his PhD degree in Geography on Monday February 28th, 2022. Mike's thesis is titled, “Environmental processes that control the chemical recovery of arsenic impacted northern... More

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Congratulations to graduate students who have recently successfully defended their theses

Congratulations to the following graduate students who have successfully defended their theses. Lindsay Trottier, MSc, Supervisor Jesse Vermaire Thesis Title: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Algae in the Rideau Canal, Ontario, Canada Eric Guitard, MSc, Supervisor Jesse Vermaire Thesis Title: The Ecological Impacts and Effectiveness of Control... More

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Carleton’s Fraser Taylor Named to the Order of Canada

Carleton University Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Professor D.R. Fraser Taylor has been named as an Officer of the Order of... More

Friday, December 17, 2021

In Memoriam: Ken Torrance

The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies (DGES) at Carleton University is saddened by the recent loss of Professor Emeritus J. Kenneth Torrance. On December 10, 2021 Ken passed away peacefully in his sleep while at home with his wife at his side.   Ken was hired in 1970, during a period of significant expansion of... More

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