Fields of interest of professors — Department of Geography

Abderrazak BANNARI - PhD, Télédétection, Université de Sherbrooke

  • Remote sensing
  • Geomatics
  • Geographic Information System (GIS)

Kenza BENALI - Ph.D, Études urbaines,  Université du  Québec à Montréal /  INRS-Urbanisation

  • Gentrification et revitalisation urbaine des quartiers centraux
  • Morphologie urbaine
  • Histoire et théories de la ville
  • Théories de la conservation et de la mise en valeur du patrimoine bâti
  • Tourisme culturel
  • Méthodes de recherche

Marc BROSSEAU - PhD, Géographie et aménagement, Université de Paris-Sorbonne

  • Literature meets geography
  • Social and cultural geographies of urban space
  • History of French Canadian geography textbooks

Huhua CAO - PhD, Géographie, Université Laval

  • Ethnic Minorities and Urban/Regional Development
  • SpatialInequality and Accessibility to Social Services
  • Mobility and Urbanisation
  • Regional Minority Dynamics in China
  • Francophone Urban Space in Canada
  • Spatial and Statistical Analysis
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Pierre CAMU - PhD, Université de Montréal

  • Transportation and communication

Luke COPLAND - PhD, Glaciology, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta

  • Glaciology
  • Ice dynamics
  • Cryosphere
  • Remote sensing
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • GPS
  • Climate change
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Eric CRIGHTON - PhD, Geography, McMaster University, School of Geography and Earth Sciences

  • Health geography
  • Environment and health
  • Psychosocial health
  • Environmental risk perception
  • Aral Sea
  • Health services research
  • Spatial analysis
  • Time-series analysis

Jackie DAWSON - PhD, Geography, University of Waterloo

  • Arctic Economic Development
  • Human Dimensions of Environmental Change
  • Vulnerability and Adaptation
  • Social-ecological Systems
  • Resilience
  • Marine Governance and Policy

Michelle S. DRIEDGER - PhD, McMaster University

  • Environment and health geography
  • Risk construction and perception
  • Science policy

Peter M. FOGGIN - PhD, McGill University

  • Human geography of China
  • Medical Geography
  • Cultural Geography
  • Health Status and Risk Factors
  • Minorities
  • Southeast Asia
  • Mongolia

Hugh FRENCH - PhD, South University

  • Permafrost geomorphology
  • Polar regions
  • Pleistocene
  • Quaternary studies

Konrad GAJEWSKI - PhD, Meteorology, Statistics minor, University of Wisconsin- Madison

  • Paleoclimatology  and paleoecology
  • Climatology
  • Biogeography
  • Quaternary studies
  • Global change
  • Statistical analysis of environmental data
  • Geographic information system (GIS)

Marie-Anne GEURTS - Doctorat ès Sciences, Université catholique de Louvain

  • Quaternary geomorphology
  • Palynology
  • Paleogeography
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Anne GILBERT - PhD, Géographie, University of Ottawa

  • Cultural and social geography
  • Regions and regionalisms
  • Minorities and development
  • New technologies of information and communication

Laurence GRAY - PhD, University of Calgary

  • Remote sensing
  • Radar interferometry
  • Glaciology
  • Ice dynamics
  • Arctic
  • Antarctic
  • Climate change

Daniel LAGAREC - PhD, Géographie, Université Laval

  • Climatology
  • Climatic changes
  • Sustainable development and environment

Bernard LAURIOL - PhD, Géographie, Université de Montréal

  • Underground ice
  • Karst geomorphology
  • Quaternary of eastern Beringia (northern Yukon)

Antoni LEWKOWICZ - PhD, Geography, University of Ottawa

  • Permafrost geomorphology and hydrology
  • Effect of global change on arctic regions
  • Mountain permafrost

Robert MCLEMAN - PhD in Geography, University of Guelph

  • Human vulnerability and adaptation to environmental change, particularly climate change
  • Relationship between environmental conditions and human migration
  • Environment and security
  • Environmental limits to urban growth
  • Sustainable development
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Roger NEEDHAM - PhD, Geography, Department of Geography, Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo

  • Natural resource management
  • International environmental programs
  • Canadian water policy
  • Mass media and environmental education
  • Socio-economic geography

Michel PHIPPS - D.èsSc., Université de Toulouse

  • Biogeography
  • Landscape ecology
  • Theories and models of spatial differentiation

Léon PLOEGAERTS - PhD, Université de Montréal

  • Urban morphology
  • Urban and regional planning
  • Territorial legislation

Brian K. RAY - PhD, Geography, Queen's University

  • Immigrant integration
  • Housin
  • Iimmigrant women and social networks
  • Social justice

Marc Saner -PhD, Biology, University of Basel

  • Environmental ethics
  • Governance and ethics of emerging technologies
  • Risk management and risk governance
  • Interface between science and policy

Michael C. SAWADA - PhD, Geography, University of Ottawa

  • Geographic Information System (GIS)
  • Spatial analysis
  • Continental-scale paleoenvironmental change

Sharon SMITH - PhD, Carleton University

  • Permafrost
  • Climate change
  • Environmental impacts of northern development on permafrost terrain
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Denis A. ST-ONGE - PhD, Hon. Causa, University of Manchester

  • Geomorphology
  • Quaternary geology
  • Arctic

Luisa VERONIS - PhD, Department of Geography, University of Toronto

  • Transnationalism, immigration and citizenship
  • The formation of immigrant identities and communities
  • Latin American migrants in Canada
  • Neoliberal governance and the nonprofit sector

André VIAU - PhD, Geography, University of Ottawa

  • Climatology
  • Climate system history and dynamics
  • Abrupt climate change
  • High-latitude climates
  • Global warming
  • Environmental data analysis and modelling
  • Human-climate interactions

Barry WELLAR - PhD, Northwestern University

  • Urban geography
  • Urban and regional planning
  • Public policy analysis
  • Research methods

Sonia WESCHE - PhD, Geography, Wilfrid Laurier University

  • Human dimensions of environmental change
  • Vulnerability and adaptation
  • Food security
  • Aboriginal health
  • Global health

Christian ZDANOWICZ - PhD, University of New Hampshire

  • Glaciology
  • Quaternary geology
  • Paleoclimatology
  • Environmental geochemistry
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