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

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

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Congratulations Kimberly Bernyk who successfully defended her MSc thesis in Geography

Congratulations to Kimberly Bernyk, who successfully defended her MSc degree in Geography on January 11th, 2023. Kimberly's thesis is titled: "Evaluation of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS)-based Structure-fromMotion (SfM) photogrammetry for characterizing microtopography and vegetation structure in a southeastern Ontario... More

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Vladimir Díaz-Cuéllar, PhD Candidate, recently co-authored “The burning case for climate crisis post-secondary education in Canada”

On Nov. 12, 2022, The Guardian reported that the University of Barcelona became the first university in the world to establish a mandatory course addressing the climate crisis for all of its undergraduate and graduate students. The move, according to economics professor Federico Demaria, marks a “change in the paradigm of university... More

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Alum Malek Singer is one of 23 Young Geospatial Professionals to Watch in 2023

Education: BS Geomatics, Carleton University Biography: Singer is passionate about challenging traditional development roadmaps which have historically focused on “delivering more data. He has expanded Teledyne’s roadmap towards products that deliver unprecedented collection efficiency, rapid insight, and workflows that help companies recruit... More

Monday, December 19, 2022

Ice, Ice, Maybe – Boosting the Rideau Canal Skating Season in a Changing Climate

It’s a gusty, grey morning in late November, and a small crew of Carleton University engineers and scientists are marshalling beside the Rideau Canal, halfway between downtown Ottawa and campus. They’re here to install monitoring equipment that will help them better understand and address the impacts of climate change on the iconic... More

Monday, December 12, 2022

Congratulations Graduate Students Rachel Mandryk and Nicholas Pontone on receiving a 2022 Weston Family Award

The Weston Family Awards in Northern Research provide unparalleled support to young scientists in Canada pursuing research in Canada’s North. Funded by the Weston Family Foundation, these annual awards are some of the most prestigious in the country for students pursuing a master’s degree, a doctoral degree or postdoctoral fellowship. Weston... More

Thursday, December 8, 2022

Geographies of Knowledge Production and the Canadian North – GEOG 5701

Winter 2023 Mondays, 11:35AM to 2:25PM Emilie Cameron The focus of this course will be the diverse geographies of knowledge production about the Canadian North. We will not just read and learn about the North but also reflect on how, why, by whom, and in whose interests various forms of knowledge about northern peoples,... More

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Congratulations Professor David Hugill, 2020 recipient of the New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award

A belated and heartfelt congratulations to Professor David Hugill, 2020 recipient of the New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award. Teaching and Learning Services hosted an awards luncheon today to celebrate winners such as David from the past few years.... More

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

Friday, July 15, 2022

GRADflix 2022 – Astrid Schetselaar, “Impacts of Permafrost Thaw on Highway Infrastructure”

Recently, the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs hosted its annual GRADflix competition. Graduate student, Astrid Schetselaar, completed a video on the "Impacts of Permafrost Thaw on Highway... More

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Congratulations Associate Professor Derek Mueller on receipt of a 2022 Research Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)

Canadian Arctic fjords: The fate of floating ice in a changing... More

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Congratulations Assistant Professor Koreen Millard on receipt of a 2022 Research Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)

Multi-sensor remote sensing of wetland... More

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