Administration & Faculty
Administration and Support
Kevin Hamdan
- Undergraduate Physical Geography and Geomatics Program Supervisor and Associate Professor
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- ext 2570
Murray Richardson
- Chair and Professor
- 613-520-2561
Paul Williams
- Undergraduate Human Geography and Environmental Studies Program Supervisor and Associate Professor
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- ext 6290
Faculty
Assistant Professor Meera Karunananthan
- Feminist geography; water justice and hydro-social conflicts in the global South; racial capitalism and decolonial theory; political ecology; community-engaged and movement drive research
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- 613-520-2600 ext 2567
Associate Professor Emilie Cameron
- Geographies of resource extraction, empire, and labour; colonialism; political economic theories and approaches
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- ext 6291
Associate Professor David Hugill
- Urban geography and North American cities; Imperial and colonial urbanisms; Urban political economy and the “Sharing Economy”
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Associate Professor Derek A. Smith
- Cultural landscapes, forest use and conservation, human-wildlife relationships, local environmental knowledge, participatory mapping, critical cartography
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Associate Professor Dipto Sarkar
- GIScience, Social Network Analysis, OpenStreetMap, and Biodiversity Conservation
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Associate Professor Jennifer Ridgley
- Cities: Critical labour, political, and legal geographies; Citizenship, border security, immigration, migration; Urban policing and law enforcement
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- 613-520-2600 ext 2576
Associate Professor Jesse Vermaire
- Human impacts on lake and river ecosystems; Long-term ecological change; Ecosystem resilience and tipping points
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- ext 3898
Associate Professor Jill Wigle
- Geographies of housing, informality and spatial regulation; the right to the city; Mexico City; Ottawa
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Associate Professor John Milton
- Grassroots innovation; Technology, society and the environment; Innovation studies
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Associate Professor Karen Hébert
- Environmental politics in the subarctic North; Resource industries and commercial fisheries; Struggles over sustainability
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Associate Professor Kevin Hamdan
- Physical geography/soil science; Biogeography; Climate Change
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- ext 2570
Associate Professor Koreen Millard
- Multi-sensor data fusion for improved understanding of hydrology/vegetation change and interactions; Modelling spatial and temporal biophysical variables with time-series remote sensing and field-measurements; Machine learning image classification for mapping environmental change
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- 613-520-2600 ext 2566
Associate Professor Pablo Mendez
- Housing affordability and sustainable transportation; Low-carbon transitions and urban design
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Associate Professor Paul Williams
- Cultural/historical geography; Post-industrial landscapes
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- ext 6290
Associate Professor Peter Pulsifer
- Geospatial data interoperability; Participatory Mapping; GIS, Remote Sensing, Cartography and Visualization; Community-driven Geomatics; Building Communities of Practice
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Associate Professor Scott Mitchell
- Spatial pattern & environmental processes; Global change impacts on agriculture; Biodiversity and ecosystem services
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- ext 2695
Associate Professor Sheryl-Ann Simpson
- Migration, place and citizenship; Environmental justice, health and well-being; Spatial analysis (participatory, quantitative, qualitative, interpretive)
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- 613-520-2600 ext 8741
Associate Professor Sophie Tamas
- Subjectivity, trauma, and the (mis)uses of personal narrative; Emotional, feminist, psychoanalytic, and non-representational geographies; Qualitative, arts-based, autoethnographic and Indigenous research methods.
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- 613-520-2600 ext 3578
Professor Derek Mueller
- Arctic science; Climate change; Cryospheric change
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- ext 1984
Professor Elyn Humphreys
- Soil-plant-atmosphere interactions in tundra and peatlands; Carbon cycling; Energy budgets
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Professor Murray Richardson
- Watershed ecosystems; Ecosystems sensitivity to atmospheric mercury pollution; Environmental geocomputation: GIS, remote sensing and statistical modelling
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- 613-520-2561
Professor Patricia Ballamingie
- Food systems governance; Regional food systems; Agroecological adaptation to climate change
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- 613-805-1460 (cell)
Professor Stephan Gruber
- Permafrost and impacts of its thaw; Cold environments at high latitude or elevation
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Postdoctoral Researchers
| Cross Appointed to Geography and Environmental Studies |
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| Peter Andrée (Political Science) Steven Cooke (Environmental Science and Department of Biology) Amrita Hari (Women’s and Gender Studies) Shawn Kenny (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Paul Mkandaŵire (Interdisciplinary Studies) Vivian Nguyen (Interdisciplinary Science and Practice) Paul Peters (Health Science) Blair Rutherford (African Studies; Sociology and Anthropology) Marylynn Steckley (Global and International Studies) Julie Tomiak (Indigenous and Canadian Studies) |
| Contract Instructors | |
|---|---|
| Fall Term 2025 | Winter Term 2026 |
| Galina Jonat Andy Kusi-Appiah Emily Lindsay Jennifer Totten | Adam Kirkwood Andy Kusi-Appiah Jennifer Totten |
| Professors Emeritus |
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| Michael Brklacich Chris Burn John Clarke Peter Johnson Fran Klodawsky Fiona Mackenzie Michael Ray Peter Ricketts Iain Wallace |
| Friends of the Department – Departed Faculty and Staff |
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| David Bennett Elsie Clement Judy Donaldson Christine Earl Natalia Fierro Marquez Mike Fox Kathryn Lindsay Joyce Lundberg Dan Patterson Michael Pisaric Steve Prashker Peter Williams |