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

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Congratulations Assistant Professor Sheryl-Ann Simpson on receipt of an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

"Planning for Abolition: Defining Terms and Building... More

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Carleton PhD Student Madelaine Bourdages Wins the 2022 Canadian Northern Studies Trust Scholarship

Madelaine Bourdages, PhD student has been awarded the Canadian Northern Studies Trust Scholarship worth $10,000 from the Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies (ACUNS)... More

Monday, June 13, 2022

Congratulations Denisse Maldonado Navarro on successfully defending your MA thesis in Geography

Congratulations to Denisse Maldonado Navarro, who successfully defended her MA degree in Geography on Tuesday May 17, 2022. Denisse's thesis is titled, "Investigating changes in Mangrove cover and conservation policy in the protected area of Yum Balam, Mexico,... More

Thursday, June 9, 2022

A look back at an active year for CUGESA!

2021-2022 was a challenging school year for the Carleton University Geography and Environmental Studies Students Association (CUGESA). Despite the numerous challenges Olivia Hobbs, President of CUGESA and her Executive Team, organized several great events.  These included a nature walk to Hog's Back Falls, tote bag decorating, a bird watching... More

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

In Memoriam: Mike Smith

  On the 12th of May 2022, the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies (DGES), the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), and all of Carleton University lost a trusted friend, academic innovator, and international research leader.  Professor Emeritus Michael W. Smith passed away peacefully in his sleep at his home in Picton.... More

Monday, May 16, 2022

Permafrost Thaw and Our Climate

Learn more about Prof. Stephan Gruber’s research on permafrost. Research helping Canada's north plan for the... More

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Congratulations Ines Peraza on successfully defending your MSc thesis in Geography

Congratulations to Ines Peraza, who successfully defended her MSc degree in Geography on Wednesday April 27, 2022. Ines’s thesis is titled, “Spatial Patterns of Mercury Accumulation in Wolverine (Gulo gulo) Across the Western Canadian Artic: Landscape, Climate and Dietary... More

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Jindal School of Environment and Sustainability (JSES) held a collaborative class with our ENST 4022 – Regenerative Design & Development course to offer students hands-on international exposure in a classroom setting

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Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Congratulations Professor Patricia Ballamingie on your published book titled, “Showing theory to know theory: Understanding social science concepts through illustrative vignettes.”

May 2, 2022 (Ottawa) — The new open-access textbook, Showing Theory to Know Theory: Understanding social science concepts through illustrative vignettes, is now available for adoption and classroom use. Published in collaboration with eCampusOntario, Carleton University, and the University of Ottawa, the textbook is targeted at early... More

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

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