Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Publication Announcement “Land Reclamation and Restoration Strategies for Sustainable Development” – 1st edition

PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT Professor D. R. Fraser Taylor, Director, Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, DGES, Carleton University, Announces the Latest Publication in the Elsevier Modern Cartography Series: "Land Reclamation and Restoration Strategies for Sustainable Development" - 1st edition November 16, 2021 Professor D. R. Fraser Taylor... More

Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Congratulations to graduate student Trevor Andersen, who just won the Paper of Merit award at the Regional Conference on Permafrost

Congratulations to graduate student, Trevor Andersen, who just won the Paper of Merit award at the Regional Conference on Permafrost, an online meeting with attendance of 418 run by the United States Permafrost Association on behalf of the International Permafrost Association out of Boulder, CO. His award was for the presentation of a paper... More

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Study in the Yukon: Carleton University’s Northern Studies Field Course

Narration by Professor Chris Burn and stunning videography by Samphe.com captures the experience of MA and MSc Northern Studies students during the annual field... More

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Ottawa Urban Geography Field Course

Recently students in our 3rd year Ottawa Urban Geography Field Course met in downtown Ottawa where they explored questions around housing and neighbourhood change. Associate Professor Jennifer Ridgley who teaches the course explains that, "this year’s course is designed to provide an opportunity to collectively explore, examine, and reflect on... More

Monday, October 25, 2021

Graduation Story: Research Worth It’s Weight in Gold

Brittany Astles has always been interested in water quality. No wonder, as she was from a small town in Northern Ontario where there are multiple boil water advisories in many... More

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Watershed Hydrology Field Work on the Rideau

Students recently had the opportunity to get out in the field to do some hands-on field work in our 3rd year Watershed Hydrology course. Dr. Jennifer Totten, course instructor, explains, "Students are learning to acquire stream-flow data by hands-on measurement in the Rideau. They also get to compare their data with the real-time data... More

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Because IPCC

IPCC stands for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The work they’ve done is amazing but almost nobody knows their name. Volunteers, including Professor Patricia Ballamingie, created the graphic novel Because IPCC to help fix that. https://youtu.be/7UtPdai8p3w Plus, the book explains how the IPCC works and the achievements it’s made.... More

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

“Mapping the Epidemic A Systemic Geography of COVID-19 in Italy”

Professor D. R. Fraser Taylor is very pleased to announce the publication of the latest book in the Elsevier Modern Cartography Series, entitled “Mapping the Epidemic – A Systemic Geography of COVID-19 in Italy”, edited by Emanuela Casti with Fulvio Adobati and Ilia Negri. Professor Taylor, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Killam... More

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Doug King Memorial Tree Fund

Doug King has played many roles at Carleton since 1992. Formal assignments included teacher, researcher, undergraduate and graduate program supervisors, and Chair of the department; but for so many it also included some combination of mentor and friend. In May 2021 Doug lost a short but determined battle with cancer. We aim to ensure... More

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Carleton Students Connect Classes to Community in Northern Field Course

On a sunny, mid-July morning in Dawson City, Yukon, Carleton University Geography master’s student Astrid Schetselaar hops into the passenger seat of a pickup truck and departs for a three-day drive up the Dempster... More

Sunday, September 5, 2021

Congratulations Brittany Astles on defending your Masters degree in Geography

Congratulations to Brittany Astles, who successfully defended her Master's degree in Geography on Monday August 9th, 2021. Brittany’s thesis is titled, “The Influence of Warmer Temperatures Brought on by Climate Change on the Mobility of Arsenic from Lake... More

Thursday, September 2, 2021

2021 Carleton Geography and Environmental Studies Annual Newsletter

Welcome to the new academic year; here's the 2021 Geography and Environmental Studies Department year in... More

Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Practicum Placement to Working Internship

Congratulations Larissa Diamantopoulos and Jessica Legere, DGES alumnus, both working in internship positions after having completed practicum placements at Sustainable Eastern Ontario (SEO). Here is a video of the type of work Larissa and Jessica were introduced to through our practicum program and are continuing to build on through internship... More

Friday, August 6, 2021

Feminist Geographies: Space, Place and Gender

Spots still available in GEOG 3009 winter term course. Offered Tuesdays, on campus, 14:35 - 17:25 Students taking this course will explore places and spaces where the gendered impacts of global phenomena, including migration, climate change, pandemics and financial crises, are experienced. It is fundamentally a course about relations of power, how... More

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Assistant Professor Sheryl-Ann Simpson reviews Immigrant Crossroads

Assistant Professor Sheryl-Ann Simpson reviews Immigrant Crossroads Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New... More

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Professor Chris Burn, permafrost researcher, says Yukon’s permafrost thaw reaching ‘critical point’ in some areas

A permafrost expert says his 40 years of research in the Yukon is revealing profound and irreversible changes to the territory’s landscape. Elyn Jones spoke with Chris Burn, the Chancellor’s Professor of Geography at Carleton University. He’s also the president of the International Permafrost... More

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Dynamics in Globalization: Human Mobility and Security

GEOG 4024. Seminar in Globalization Dynamics in Globalization: Human Mobility and Security Recent migration 'crises' around the world, the global pandemics, and the range of discourses, policies, laws, and practices that have followed call attention to human mobility regulation as a standout globalization issue. Security, in its many dimensions,... More

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Welcome to our Department Meera Karunananthan

Join us in welcoming Meera Karunananthan who joins our department on July 1st, 2021 as a Lecturer in Human Geography. Meera’s research on urban hydro-social conflicts is the culmination of more than a decade of solidarity and collaborative inquiry with water justice networks around the world. In her previous role as Director of the... More

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Residential Schools Land Memory Atlas Uses Digital Mapping Tools to Build Understanding of Canada’s Indian Residential School System

Death cast a long shadow over Canada’s residential schools. These are the first nine words in the introduction to Canada’s Residential Schools: Missing Children and Unmarked Burials. This 273-page volume of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was published in 2015, yet most Canadians have never read this powerful... More

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Congratulations to DGES students who have been awarded UG awards!

Congratulations to Mifda Lafir Madani who has been awarded the Jessie and Wreford Watson Award in Geography! The Jessie and Wreford Watson Award in Geography is awarded annually to the outstanding student entering the final year of Honours Geography at Carleton University. Dr. Wreford Watson, then Chief Geographer of Canada, founded geography at... More

Thursday, June 3, 2021

The Changing Landscape of Ottawa’s Rooming House Market

2021 GRADflix video submission by Jessica Sperry, Geography and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social... More

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Blog: Reflections on co-teaching a field course online in Brightspace

By Stephan Gruber and Derek Smith, co-instructors, Department of Geography and Environmental... More

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Digital Mapping and Indigenous America

Professor Fraser Taylor would like to bring to your attention the new publication in the Routledge Research in Art and Race entitled  Digital Mapping and Indigenous America. Editor, Janet Berry Hess. Routledge 2021 New York.  It includes three contributions by the Geomatics and Cartographic Research (GCRC) team as follow: Taylor D. R. F.... More

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

End of Year Message from Chair, Dr. Scott Mitchell

Greetings, DGES family,  I had an end-of-year message partially drafted that started in a more celebratory tone, but last week’s sad news makes that difficult.  So I’m starting again, with an acknowledgement that the tragic loss of Professor Doug King to cancer has dominated many of our thoughts since learning about his rapid... More

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Congratulations Opoku Asenso on defending your PhD degree in Geography

Congratulations to Opoku Asenso, who successfully defended his PhD degree in Geography on Monday May 17, 2021. Opoku’s dissertation is titled, “It's for sure conscious that we stay central": Barriers in Accessing Preventative Resources for Chlamydia among Youth in Southwest... More

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Congratulations Nicolas Pelletier on defending your PhD degree in Geography

Congratulations to Nicolas Pelletier, who successfully defended his PhD degree in Geography on Thursday May 13, 2021. Nicolas’s dissertation is titled, “Paleolimnological characterization of metal(loid) sources and transport processes in Canadian subarctic... More

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Congratulations Amelia Johnson on defending her MSc degree in Geography

Congratulations to Amelia Johnson, who successfully defended her MSc degree in Geography on Thursday May 13, 2021. Amelia’s dissertation is titled, “Mapping Riparian Habitat Availability in Canada's Agricultural Landscapes using Earth... More

Friday, May 14, 2021

Mourning the Loss of Dr. Doug King

The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies (DGES) at Carleton University is mourning the loss of Dr. Doug King.  Doug passed away on May 12 at Maison des Collines in Wakefield, with his wife and children at his side. The determination and good humour that he brought to his cancer diagnosis and treatments was very... More

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Professor D. R. Fraser Taylor’s first person account of his career in Geography

"First person: The young blood of... More

Thursday, April 15, 2021

Congratulations Nicholas Pontone, Undergraduate Student in Geomatics, on receipt of a 2021 Undergraduate Summer Research Internship Award

Nicholas will research, "Using Continuous Change Detection and Classification of All Available Landsat Data to Detect and Differentiate Harvest Practices in the Martel Forest." Congratulations... More

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Solidarity and Support for Geography Students at Laurentian University

As part of an effort coordinated through the Canadian Association of Geographers, we welcome interested Geography and Environmental Studies students from suspended programs at Laurentian University to contact us about completing Carleton courses online. The following online courses are being offered in Spring/Summer 2021, all in online format:... More

Monday, April 12, 2021

Maps, Satellites and the Geospatial Revolution (GEOM 1004)

Maps, Satellites and the Geospatial Revolution (GEOM 1004) Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, Summer 2021 The objective of GEOM 1004 is to introduce various theoretical concepts and background information on geospatial data and tools and to get hands-on experience with specialized software. This course provides... More

Thursday, April 8, 2021

MSc Student Opportunities

Posted March 18, 2021 MSc Position Available: Environmental Contamination from the Use of Lead Ammunition An MSc student opportunity is available to join a collaborative research project involving researchers at the National Wildlife Research Centre (a government facility of Environment and Climate Change Canada) and Carleton University. The MSc... More

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Congratulations Chloe Poitevin on defending your PhD degree in Geography

Congratulations to Chloe Poitevin, who successfully defended her PhD degree in Geography. Chloe’s dissertation is titled, “Tapping into Community: Localism, Place-Making, and Diverse Economies in Craft... More

Monday, March 22, 2021

Dr Christopher Burn – Understanding Permafrost Responses to Climate Change

It is not just the polar ice caps that are melting. On our warming planet, the ice buried within the layers of ground around the Arctic Circle is thawing, irreversibly changing these spectacular landscapes and posing risks to the communities that call these areas home. Understanding the dynamics of ‘permafrost’ is vital for predicting... More

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