Saturday, November 14, 2020

Congratulations to all our Fall 2020 Graduates!

All of us in the Department of Geography and Environment Studies extend congratulations to our students who graduated this Fall 2020. Please know that we are so proud of you and look for the personalized congratulatory card signed by our Chair Scott Mitchell sent to each of you in the... More

Friday, September 25, 2020

Congratulations Romola V. Thumbadoo, PhD and D. R. Fraser Taylor, GCRC Director and Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Professor on your recent publication, “Indigenous Elder William Commanda and the Circle of All Nations Discourse”.

Romola V. Thumbadoo, PhD and D. R. Fraser Taylor, GCRC Director and Chancellor's Distinguished Research Professor were recently published in the International Journal of Arts, Humanities & Social Science. The journal article is titled, "Indigenous Elder William Commanda and the Circle of All Nations... More

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Congratulations to all our graduate students who successfully defended their thesis over the summer semester!

Going back to May of this year, here are the students who have successfully defended their thesis:   Xiaoyuan Geng (PhD), May 4, 2020, supervisor:  Scott Mitchell Development of operational methods to predict soil classes and properties in Canada using machine learning   Katherine (Katia) McKercher (MSc), June 5, 2020, supervisor: ... More

Saturday, September 19, 2020

New Special Topics in Geomatics course: Internet GIS

    Internet GIS We are pleased to offer a course on Internet GIS in Winter 2021, under our Special Topics in Geomatics course code, GEOM 4001. Geographic Information Systems (GIS), once considered the state of the art in geographic data handling, analysis and geovisualization, are no longer packaged into single desktop-based systems.... More

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Congratulations Assistant Professor David Hugill recipient of a 2020 New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award!

Announcing the winners of the 2020 Carleton University Teaching... More

Monday, September 14, 2020

2020 Carleton Geography and Environmental Studies Annual Newsletter

Sharing and celebrating successes and news with the DGES community.  Welcome to the latest edition of our annual DGES... More

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Carleton’s Derek Mueller Studies Consequences of Climate Change in Canada’s Arctic

The Milne Ice Shelf on the northwest coast of Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island has broken up, reducing in size by almost half and setting large ice islands adrift in the Arctic Ocean. Ice shelves are thick, floating sheets of ice attached to the coast. The Milne Ice Shelf was the last remaining intact ice shelf in... More

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Congratulations Postdoctoral Fellow Romola Thumbadoo on recently being published in the International Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science

Romola Thumbadoo, postdoctoral fellow and Distinguished Research Professor Fraser Taylor recently published, Indigenous Elder William Commanda, Cognitive Cartography and Cybercartography in the International Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science. Indigenous Elder William Commanda, Cognitive Cartography and Cybercartography Abstract... More

Friday, August 7, 2020

Nunavut’s Milne Ice Shelf Suddenly Collapses

Carleton University’s Derek Mueller, professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, has visited the ice shelf 11 times since 2004 and was scheduled to visit again this July before his trip was cancelled due to... More

Monday, June 22, 2020

Congratulations DGES 2020 Graduates!

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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Carleton’s Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre to Launch Residential Schools Land Memory Atlas

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Friday, June 12, 2020

Professor Trish Ballamingie was one of the guests as part of CBC Ottawa Morning’s segment on food security in light of COVID-19

Professor Trish Ballamingie was one of the guests as part of CBC Ottawa Morning's segment on food security in light of COVID-19. With Moe Garahan from Just Food, Michael Maidment from Ottawa Food Bank, Erin O'Manique from Gloucester Emergency Food Cupboard, and host, Robyn Bresnahan! You can check out the segment here:... More

Thursday, June 11, 2020

​COMS2200 Big Data and Society, COMS5225 Critical Data Studies

Interested in learning more about Big Data and Society and/or Critical Data Studies? Assistant Professor Tracey P. Lauriault "would love to have some geography students in her... More

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Congratulations to the DGES winners of the 2019-2020 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards!

The following Teaching Assistants were nominated for the EDC’s 2019-2020 Outstanding TA Award competition, Madelaine Bourdages ENST 3900 Jessica Sperry ENST 1020 Brittany Astles GEOG 2006 Veronika Kratz ENST 3000 Tess MacMillan ENST 3000 Nicolas Pelletier GEOG 3108 Emma Stockton GEOG 1010 Lindsay Trottier GEOG 3104 In addition, Jessica Sperry... More

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Congratulations Dr. Jennifer Ridgley and Dr. Sophie Tamas, recipients of the Carleton University COVID-19 Rapid Response Research Grants Competition

From the Carleton Office for Research Initiatives and Services CU COVID-19 Rapid Research Response Grants announcement, "In response to COVID-19, Carleton University swiftly developed an internal funding opportunity to provide seed funding for individuals or teams of researchers for original, innovative, and time-sensitive research to propose... More

Friday, May 29, 2020

Congratulations Jupiter Bavington on receipt of a FASS Summer Research Internship Award!

Congratulations Jupiter Bavington on being awarded one of the highly competitive FASS Summer Research Internship awards! Jupiter is working on her Bachelor of Arts Honours in Environmental Studies and will be completing her summer research under the supervision of Professor David Hugill. "I will be using the FASS Undergraduate Summer Research... More

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Update on Fourth Year Field Course and Practicum

Honours Field Camp. We will be offering an on-line version of the third-year Honours field camp. The design of this course has yet to be finalized. However, you will be able to take this course remotely with courses held on-line through the course cuLearn site.  Fourth-year Practicum. In normal times, practicums consist of in-office... More

Monday, May 25, 2020

Congratulations Erin Turnbull on recipient of the Canadian Association of Geographers Undergraduate Award for 2020 from Carleton University

Erin Turnbull, 4th year BScH in the Earth Sci and Physical Geography Combined Major, has been nominated as the recipient of the Canadian Association of Geographers Undergraduate Award for 2020 from Carleton! Erin is a Dean’s Honour List student in the program stated above, and was nominated by the DGES undergraduate coordinators as an... More

Friday, May 22, 2020

Message to our UG Students from the Chair on behalf of all faculty and staff of Geography and Environmental Studies

Dear DGES students, Normally, this should be an exciting time. For our current students, winter semester exams are over, summer jobs typically would have been secured, and for returning students, in just a few months, you would be registering for another year at Carleton. For those of you entering fourth year, you would normally be looking... More

Thursday, May 14, 2020

COVID-19 and the future of North American borders – by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera and Victor Konrad

Victor Konrad teaches geography at Carleton University. He was president of the Association for Borderlands Studies. Currently he is co-director of the Borders in Globalization Project and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Borderlands... More

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Niloofar Alavi-Shoushtari, PhD graduate, was recently published in Remote Sensing

Niloofar Alavi-Shoushtari's research paper titled, "Evaluating the Relationships of Inter-Annual Farmland Vegetation Dynamics with Biodiversity Using Multi-Spatial and Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Data" has been published in Remote Sensing. "I completed my Bachelor degree in Environmental Studies in my country of origin, Iran. I moved to Canada... More

Thursday, May 7, 2020

NEW Late Summer Course Offering – North American Borders in Comparative Perspective

GEOGRAPHY 4024/5502, Late Summer, 2020 North American Borders in Comparative Perspective The COVID-19 pandemic has closed borders in North America except for essential travel and shipment. In the 21st century, borders between Canada and the United States, and Mexico and the United States, have emerged as dynamic interactive zones and politically... More

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

New 2020 summer course offering – Geographies of Europe GEOG 3025

Geographies of Europe course will be live-streamed. Virtual attendance at times/days listed is required. Tuesday and Thursday from 18:05 - 20:55 Taught by Dr. Tamara Kotar In this course we will examine the significance of Europe’s physical and cultural environments and how they are part of diverse, multiple and changing socio-political... More

Monday, May 4, 2020

Contract Instructor Opportunities Fall 2020 – Winter 2021. DGES invites applications from members of the CUPE 4600-2 bargaining unit and other interested persons to teach courses in geography, environmental studies, or geomatics, as a contract instructor.

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Monday, April 27, 2020

Congratulations Adjunct Research Professor Victor Konrad on your recent co-authoring book, “North American Borders in Comparative Perspective”

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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

As a project from Assistant Professor Sheryl-Ann Simpson’s environmental justice class, UG student Linzi Redekop wrote a fictional story on the non-fictional problem that is currently facing our city: urban sprawl

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Monday, April 20, 2020

Congratulations to DGES Faculty who were nominated by students as 2019-2020 Favourite Faculty!

Patricia Ballamingie (Geography and Enviromental Studies): When Professor Ballamingie teaches her lectures, it feels akin to a conversation, one spoken by a person who still remembers the hardship of being a student. With a sense of humor and a verity of stories she reminds us that it is perfectly fine to embarrass oneself because... More

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Art journaling drop-in sessions on the first and third Friday of every month from 2:00 to 4:00, starting May 1, 2020.

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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Congratulations Dr. Karen Hébert on receipt of a 2020 FASS Early Career Research Award and 2020 International Research Seed Grant!

Karen Hébert's research examines changing natural resource economies, environmental politics, and struggles over sustainability in the subarctic and circumpolar North.  An ethnographer by training, she works at the intersection of critical human geography, cultural anthropology, and political ecology, contributing to cross-disciplinary... More

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Murray Richardson, professor in Geography and Environmental Studies, is working with Arctic UAV in Iqaluit, Nunavut to improve UAV photogrammetry methods for studying Arctic tundra watersheds.

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Thursday, March 26, 2020

Course completion challenges under the COVID-19 restrictions

This is a difficult time for everyone and certainly a challenging end-of-term for our students. Ideally, the online measures we have put in place work for our students.  However, there can be technical difficulties caused by the range of computing resources which students can access.  In addition, some of our students are dealing... More

Thursday, March 19, 2020

Information on access to Geography labs

All physical access to the labs on campus has been revoked. If you have work saved on the S: drive at these labs you will be able to access the drive by downloading the Virtual Private Network (VPN), instructions below. Our dedicated FASS Computing Services Unit have offered to help you in this process.... More

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Departmental contact information during pandemic and online instruction

Following the advice of Ottawa Public Health, the Ontario Ministry of Health, Public Health Ontario and the Public Health Agency of Canada, Carleton University has closed all non-essential services. During this time, the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies will be operating online, and staff will be working remotely. For... More

Friday, March 6, 2020

Congratulations Trudi Zundel, doctoral student, on receipt of the Hamlin Graduate Fellowship and David and Rachel Epstein Scholarship!

Hamlin Graduate Fellowship Awarded annually by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs to outstanding students entering or proceeding from one year to another in any graduate program of study at Carleton University. Endowed in 2008 by the Hamlin Charitable Fund. David and Rachel Epstein Scholarship Part of the income from the David and... More

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Congratulations Professor Patricia Ballamingie on receipt of a 2020/2021 Research Achievement Award

Professor Ballamingie was chosen as one of only ten recipients for a 2020/2021 Research Achievement Award. Project: Governance Insights from Food System Elders: Civil Society and Social Movement Perspectives As co-applicant on a SSHRC-funded Insight grant, Civil Society and Social Movement Engagement in Food Systems Governance (2019-2024) (PI Dr.... More

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