{"id":24939,"date":"2019-04-15T10:50:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T14:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/?p=24939"},"modified":"2025-07-10T10:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:46:33","slug":"24939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/2019\/24939\/","title":{"rendered":"Why study Geography at Carleton University?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Why study Geography at Carleton University?\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n
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Cassandra Michel, MSc 2017<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“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 students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The practicum program is also an extremely valuable part of the geography program, as it offers students an opportunity to gain real-world experience and create valuable connections. I have always been interested in water resources, so I decided to do my practicum with the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority. During my practicum project, I was able to get acquainted with my supervisor and get a job with the organization after I graduated.  My master thesis research project was a collaborative project with the conservation authority, which focused on understanding groundwater and surface water dynamics in a local rural watershed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While at Carleton, I had the opportunity to take specialized courses, like the Catchment Science Summer School at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, UK and the undergraduate 4th-year winter field course. I was also able and encouraged to present my research at conferences such as the Canadian Geophysical Union, the Canadian Geophysical Union-Hydrology section, the Latornell Conservation Symposium and the Canadian Water Resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, I am working as a planning analyst for the National Hydrological Service, which is a directorate of Environment Climate Change Canada. I owe a lot of my success to the support, connections, and knowledge I gained through my time at Carleton in the Geography department. The professors, instructors, technicians and administrative staff all work to foster a positive and collaborative environment and actively engage with the students. I loved my time spent at Carleton and would recommend it to anyone who is considering attending”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 students. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32010,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24939\/revisions\/32010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}