Friday, September 27, 2019

Students, staff, and faculty at the Global Climate Strike

On Friday, September 27, faculty, staff and students in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies joined millions of people worldwide in the Global Climate Strike to demand that the climate crisis be acted on as an emergency.  ... More

Thursday, September 19, 2019

Global Climate Strike

On Friday, September 27, millions of people worldwide will be striking from school and work to demand that the climate crisis be acted on as an emergency. The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies supports this action, and will be sending a delegation of faculty, students, and staff to the Ottawa event. We encourage... More

Monday, September 16, 2019

2019 Graduate Field Camp

On September 14th & 15th 2019 graduate students took part in orientation field camp which included exploring areas of study in both physical and human geography.  ... More

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

2019 Annual Corn Boil

On Wednesday September 11th, 2019 the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and the Carleton University Geography and Environmental Studies Student Association hosted our annual welcome back corn boil for faculty, staff, and students.... More

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

NSERC Funds the Establishment of PermafrostNet, Led by Carleton’s Stephan Gruber

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Sunday, September 1, 2019

2019 Fall Undergraduate Field Camp

It was another exciting and informative week in August for our undergraduate Geography, Environmental Studies, and Geomatic students. Students in GEOG3000/ENST3900 were introduced to various in-field research methods and sampling approaches, coupled with actual in-field experience throughout Lanark, Carleton Place, Perth, and Almonte a region... More

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Congratulations Cameron Fitzpatrick on receiving an ESRI Canada Student Achievement Award!

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Wednesday, July 10, 2019

New! Concentration in Urban Geography in the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Geography

Are you interested in cities? The rapid pace of urban change across the globe? The role of cities in globalization? How to plan for more equitable cities? The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies now offers a Concentration in Urban Geography for students in the Honours BA Geography program. This concentration allows students to... More

Thursday, July 4, 2019

Microplastic Sampling using Ottawa Riverkeeper’s Riverwatch Network

Larissa Holman from Ottawa Riverkeeper and Shaun Forrest from Carleton University discuss the recently released paper "Citizen science sampling programs as a technique for monitoring microplastic pollution" which details the work that Ottawa Riverkeeper's Riverwatch network did helping the lab of Jesse Vermaire at Carleton University collect data... More

Friday, June 21, 2019

Professor Chris Burn discusses climate change and thawing permafrost in the northern landscape on CBC The National

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Monday, June 17, 2019

Congratulations to all our spring 2019 graduates!

On Friday June 14, 2019 the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies staff, faculty, friends and families attended spring convocation to celebrate our many graduating students. Congratulations to all the Ph.D., MA, MSc., BA, BA Honours, BSc. and BSc Honours students who received their degrees on this day.  We wish you all the best... More

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

A look back at a great year for CUGESA!

As 2018-2019 co -presidents of the Carleton University Geography and Environmental Studies Students Association (CUGESA), Gillian Chapman and Tim Coxford were quite engaged in organizing several successful events for students. Below are photos of some of the activities organized this past school year. Get involved with CUGESA during the 2019-2020... More

Monday, June 10, 2019

DGES alumni helping students learn hydrology field techniques

On Tuesday, June 4th, 2019, Matt Rozak and Richard Wright, City of Ottawa employees and DGES alumni, joined Instructor John Milton's on-campus field course to help students learn about hydrology sampling... More

Monday, June 10, 2019

Giving the People What They Want: “Translating” Weather and Climate Information in the North American Arctic

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Monday, June 10, 2019

Congratulations NSERC-USRA Summer 2019 Recipients!

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Monday, May 27, 2019

Carleton Profs and Students Research Recent Herongate Evictions

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Friday, May 24, 2019

Funding for Ph.D. and MSc. Research on Earth Observations for Cumulative Effects Monitoring

The Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, EO Baseline Data for Cumulative Effects Project, is inviting letters of interest for funding for graduate positions in the topic of Regional Monitoring of Cumulative Effects. Applicants must already be registered in a graduate program at a Canadian University, or have a letter of support from a prospective... More

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Grad Research: Learning About Caribou Crossings Around Qikiqtaq (King William Island, Nunavut)

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Monday, May 6, 2019

Congratulations Professor Doug King on your Retirement!

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Monday, April 29, 2019

Congratulations to DGES Faculty on receipt of 2019 FASS Awards!

Murray Richardson received a Research Excellence Award, David Hugill and Sheryl-Ann Simpson were awarded Early Career Research Awards, and Trish Ballamingie received a Teaching Excellence Award. More information on these awards can be found on the FASS website.... More

Thursday, April 18, 2019

Congratulations Ph.D. student Jason Beaver on being awarded a 2019 W. Garfield Weston Foundation Fellowship!

Ph.D. student Jason Beaver was recently awarded a 2019 W. Garfield Weston Foundation Fellowship from the Wildlife Conservation Society Canada (WCS Canada) for research on Northern Conservation entitled, “Modelling and mapping methane flux in the Hudson Bay Lowlands: a remote sensing approach”. Jason will examine atmospheric carbon flux within... More

Monday, April 15, 2019

Why study Geography at Carleton University?

Cassandra Michel, MSc 2017 "I attended Carleton for both my BA Honours in Geography and my MSc in Geography, which I completed in 2017. I chose to continue my education at Carleton in large part because of the excellent work of the geography department and the sense of community offered by its staff and... More

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Congratulations Erin Turnbull! Recipient of the 2019 ESRI Scholarship

Erin Turnbull, 4th year BScH in the Earth Sci and Physical Geography Combined Major, has been awarded Carleton’s nomination for the annual Esri Scholarship. Erin is a Dean’s Honour List student in the program stated above, and she earned the scholarship thanks to faculty nomination as an excellent student in our Geomatics courses, along with... More

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Dr. Gita Ljubicic Speaks to Special Senate Committee on the Arctic

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Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Justin Stefanik, DGES PhD graduate and entrepreneur, “The Story of Bread Box – Dough to Door Bakery”

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Monday, April 8, 2019

A brief commentary on “The Elusive Quest for balanced regional growth from Barlow to Brexit” by Professor Emeritus Michael Ray

“The Elusive Quest for balanced regional growth from Barlow to Brexit” By D Michael Ray, Peter G Hall, & Daniel P O’Donaghue In Growth and Change 2019 vol. 50.1 pp. 266-284 Britain’s post-Brexit regional strategy to drive “growth across the whole country” (H M Government, 2017 pp. 107-117) is a response to growing post-war... More

Monday, March 18, 2019

Undergraduate National Capital Research Day 2019

This event is a celebration of undergraduate research from Carleton that focuses on the National Capital Region. Students from Professor Ridgley's First Year Seminar “Social Justice and the City” participated in student poster presentations along with classes in Sociology and Architecture. The event showcased posters, conference paper... More

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

DGES Undergraduate wins the 2018-2019 Julius Lukasiewicz Award in Technology, Society, Environment Studies

Molly Touchie, a third-year undergraduate environmental studies student with the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, has been awarded the 2018-2019 Julius Lukasiewicz Award in Technology, Society, Environment Studies. Molly will examine how the masking of social and environmental impacts associated with technology adoption, using... More

Monday, February 11, 2019

Charles Nixon Travel Bursary in Human Geography and Environmental Studies

Established in 2017, the Charles Nixon Travel Bursary in Human Geography and Environmental Studies is awarded annually on the recommendation of the Chair of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies to undergraduate students enrolled in human geography and environmental studies. The purpose of this bursary is to assist undergraduate... More

Friday, February 8, 2019

“Clyde River’s online atlas puts Inuktitut names on the map” by John Thompson

Dr. D. R. Fraser Taylor, Director, Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre (GCRC), Carleton University,  is very pleased to share this article entitled “Clyde River’s online atlas puts Inuktitut names on the map” by John Thompson (in the 5 February 2019 publication of Nunatsiaq News).  The atlas was first publicly unveiled during the... More

Thursday, February 7, 2019

Main Office Closed 10-11am Today

Please note the main office will be closed from 10am-11am today for a staff meeting. Thank you for your... More

Thursday, January 31, 2019

In Memoriam: Dr. Peter Williams

We are saddened to share news of the death of Professor Emeritus Peter Williams, who passed away in London, Ontario, on January 14, 2019.  Dr. Williams joined the Department of Geography in 1969, after degrees from the universities of Cambridge, Oslo, and Stockholm, and over a decade working as a Research Scientist at the... More

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Civil Society and Social Movement Engagement in Food Systems Governance

Dr. Charles Levkoe (Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Food Systems and Associate Professor at Lakehead University and Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University) and Drs. Patricia Ballamingie and Peter Andrée (both Associate Professors at Carleton University) seek an outstanding Ph.D. student to pursue doctoral studies in the Department... More

Friday, January 18, 2019

Research Notes from the Field Stephanie Lonz, Geography and Environmental Studies

Was the 2017 Parks Canada Discovery Pass Good Policy? This past summer, Stephanie Lonz, a fourth-year Honours student in Geography and Environmental Studies was one of 14 recipients of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science Undergraduate Summer Research Internship Awards. These internships provide funding to top undergraduate students in order to... More

Monday, January 14, 2019

Graduate Student Emily Lindsay recently published in Rangeland Ecology and Management Journal

Emily Lindsay "I completed both my undergraduate degree (Geomatics and History) and MSc (Geography) at Carleton University. I am now a Geography PhD candidate. When I am not located behind a computer monitor, I can be found on the curling ice, in the swimming pool, or fly fishing with my partner. My doctoral research... More

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